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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
It does seem like the pace of innovation in eInk eReader hardware has significantly slowed. The last three big features in Kindle HW have been frontlight (in 2012), waterproof (2017) and whatever you want to call the Oasis 3's color-changing frontlight (2019).
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I wonder what innovation people want to see that would be a significant improvement? The resolution is already very high, the lighting the Oasis can change temperature (it would be nice to have on the Paperwhite). Waterproofing. The changes you mention we're major upgrades that made the experience of using thr Kindle markedly better.
You could imagine modest improvements to screen contrast, body design, but nothing that would be such a huge leap that people who already have Kindles would upgrade.
Innovation and release cycles are slow because the technology is already very good. Even now, a new eReader isn't significantly better than one from a few years ago. Other than adding non-reading features (which most users presumably don’t need or want), doesn’t seem like a lot of new places to go.