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I have no doubt that as soon as a superior screen technology becomes easy to manufacture and economically reasonable to mass produce, that technology will replace e-ink. This could be transflective LCD, reflective LCD or whatever. It will become the new "e-ink". E-ink will be reduced to being used only for cheap eReader devices and the technology will effectively be "over".
So what? Does that mean that dedicated devices will be history? Hardly.
New tablets will use this new screen technology, and so will dedicated readers. Multifunctional devices will be priced significantly higher than ereaders and there will still be room in the market for two types of devices.
In the end, nobody loses, the world keeps turning and we the consumers win because we get a better device with a superior screen. Nothing wrong with that.
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