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Originally Posted by mgrimace
This is pure speculation but I presume that they haven't added the colour-changing light feature for simpler reasons of quality control. I'm moving back to Kindle from a Kobo Aura and if you pop into that forum there are tons of issues with their comfort light in terms of inconsistency of colour/temp profiles, unevenness, splotchiness (e.g., green splotches)... I would like to think (or hope at least) that Amazon is refining the execution of it before launching (i.e., so customers don't have to play the "panel lottery" with 3,4,5+ returns).
This would also make sense from a business point of view from the cost:benefit math of expected revenue gain from the feature / %units affected by quality issues (anecdotally fairly high at this stage from Kobo forums here and on reddit, e.g., Aura, Forma) x expected returns x expected hit to brand trust
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As far as I can tell, manufacturers other than Kobo (e.g. Pocketbook, Tolino) have the comfort light thing working just fine.
I‘d be surprised if they beat the big players to it (also weird because Tolino and Kobo share the same hardware platform). But Kobo never ceases to amaze...