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Originally Posted by Penny
Windows Vista had a poor launch and was an inferior product to XP in many regards. However, it paved the path that led to arguably the greatest OS of all time Windows 7. In fact, many people just skipped Vista and went directly from XP-->7.
Same situation here, no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing a purchase of the current model. I'm also not stating that the current version of Kaleido is better at displaying BW text then Carta. However, the fact that everyone is acting so surprised and disgusted that the Libra2 was discontinued is mind boggling. Three obvious down sides to having both models:
1. Logistical nightmare to produce both models,
2. Squeeze gross margins(think economies of scale)
3. Creating artificial competition between their own products for the same market share.
Clearly Kobo believes that the Kaleido technology is the better path into the future. As the technology continues to get better, it will outpace Carta capabilities at a wide margin.
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Kaleido is just Carta with a color veneer on top. It can't "outpace" Carta. It's a stopgap measure until we have sufficiently improve Gallery -- eink with colored instead of black and white particles. Kaleido is probably a dead end and can't be improved much. I would not be surprised if Amazon skipped it altogether.
(It's possible Gallery is also a dead end and they can't get the refresh time down to a usable level.)