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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
No apologies needed, "saturation" may indeed be more apt, especially since the most significant improvement to recent e-ink readers seems to have been waterproofing.  |
You're correct, but it's not the technology that's limited. It's that Amazon doesn't need to innovate. Amazon could put an Alexa speaker into a Kindle e-reader but why do so? In 2011, Time magazine reported that Amazon was working on the "Kindle Scribe." Amazon even registered domain names associated with such a device. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon actually built prototypes, just like Microsoft built a working prototype "Surface Note" three or four years ago and a prototype Courier in 2009.
Unless Amazon gets competition in the e-book retail space again, they'll never take such bold steps. They don't need to.