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I apologize if I hurt someone with my comment. It was not intended, I am truly sorry. I was just outrageous and ranting because of today's trends.
In the past one and a half decade more and more products and even brands are getting downgraded in many ways.
For example, laptops. They are getting thinner and macbook look-a-like just to be easier sold to the masses, because masses buy macbooks mostly. Being thin means that they are having insufficient cooling, means less performance than it should have. Best example: Thinkpads, we bought Thinkpads, because of their superior quality in every way. Pricey, but once worth every penny. Then the once legendary laptops got almost destroyed by corporate greed, now they are just another macbook wannabe copycat toys with a (at this point still useable) Trackpoint.
Another one: Netflix and friends. Humanity switched from cable TV to streaming, because of optional content, WITHOUT ads and the way you want to watch it. Now that dozens of millions of people are using streaming, it's got downgraded, so you can (or have to) watch ads, you are limited how do you watch the from-now-on-filled-with-politics content.
Music: google has youtube for almost two decades, but still the best audio quality and format you can get out from it is 160 kbps opus even if you pay for it. I don't say that it should be lossless CD quality, but still. At least 320 kbps would be desirable. Before that CDs were common, now you have to stream everything in inferior quality and have to be online for no reason.
Sorry for the long post, but I am concerned what will happen with the ereading business. Yes, I am overthinking and overreacting. I just hope that if kobo makes colour readers more popular (and Kindles elevate this even more) then they're not gonna completely wipe out BW readers from existence.
Because what becomes mainstream it becomes mediocre. And bringing the now outdated Kaleido 3 screen into the field in 2024 feels like a huge step back. The multi-coloured note-taking features are nice, but are they really needed and useful for everyday use at the expense of screen readability?
For me (I accept if someone else thinks the opposite) the BW Carta screens offer the best book reading experience ever. I would even give up on the capacitive screen if I could have a crispier screen quality. The Kobo Touch had a less responsive, infrared screen, but that technology would be still very good with a Carta 1200/1300 quality if we have page turn buttons anyway.
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