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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
Unfortunately, I don't think the Kindle Scribe really needs to innovate in order to capture the market. It just needs to do everything that came before it reasonably well, and be in the Amazon ecosystem, and I predict it will become the de-facto standard within a year.
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Because Amazon has 92% or more of English Language ebook market and most people have no idea how to read an ebook from Amazon without Kindle App, Fire or Kindle. So i'd say 2 months, not a year. This is no lemon like the DX/DXG was.
Though the market for 300 dpi 10.2" with note taking is more offices, Education, PDFs etc, not fiction regular ebooks. Universities were the idea of market for the 9.7" DX and its screen upgrade, the DXG, but it was far to slow for PDFs and at only 167 dpi far too low resolution. The SW / fonts / language support was and at the last (2.5.8) abysmal for the era for regular users and worse for people juggling text books.
All the marketing by everyone else put together would be small change for Amazon. As is their entire book, ebook and Kindle operation. So they can afford to market this. Even if the 5th place in features and SW quality it will "win" because it's Amazon if it does close to claims and doesn't go on fire.
Few people research and buy the most suitable product for their needs.
So it will be big success and the more negligible 10"+ size products will die. Some competitors will eventually also use the 10.2" 300 dpi screen. I've bought a lot of ereaders. Unless Amazon Kindles become as open as Kobo and work as well with Calibre and support epubs, I'll only pick up the odd bargain Kindle.