One year ago I believed and I still do that if someone were to dethrone Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) as eBook leader, it would be Google and not
other eInk reader manufacturers and definitely not Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).
Yes, that happens with Kindle 3 and
other eInk readers.
Not exact matches
It's an interesting idea, although I'd hesitate to call it the «ultimate» when it's not much different than
other Android
eInk readers already out there.
Clearly Pearl is the gold standard of eBook
Reader screens, but Vizplex is still the most common screen out there (between used
readers, the Nook, and all the
other eInk ereaders available out there.
For
others (and I'm in this category), reading on a dedicated
eink reader is a much better reading experience.
In a way all of us
readers are helping take
eInk to a stage where it is cheap enough to power lots of
other uses.
I have been waiting patiently for Sony to get caught up with the rest of the universe, so I didn't buy any of the
other frontlight
eink readers because IMO none of them can compete with Sony's advanced software (especially with pdf files).
What the new development of software platforms also tell me is that existing
eink devices can not support these software advancements and that the new generation of digital book
readers will exist, even in their dedicated device forms, in something
other than the linux based
eink devices that we know of today.