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Originally Posted by bob_ninja
Reader meanwhile has nothing to do with styling. It is just a plain black tablet. It will be abused less and has few moving parts, so should be able to last much longer. As it performs a rather mundane task of displaying text, there is much less room for improvement. We want have the next reader displaying videos of whatever, and adding bling, etc. It will display the latest books in 10 years just as well.
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I take your point about the fickleness of style, Bob, but I think that there's huge room for improvement in the Reader, and that it will be regarded as "outdated" just as quickly as any iPod when newer devices with colour screens, higher resolution, etc, come along in a year or so. I don't personally believe that the supposedly "finite" life of a LiIon battery in the Reader is any more important than it is on the iPod.
I may very well be wrong - time will tell!
Consider, though - when was the last time that you say any new electronic device that used AA or AAA batteries? They all seem to use LiIon batteries now, and I don't think that's a trend that's going to be reversed.