But at that point, you’re spending as much as an iPad for something that has a fiftieth the functionality, and not to mention no color screen. I still just don’t get it.
A BMW is 3x the price of a Toyota but has the same number of wheels and pedals. It doesn't go too much faster either.
When you look at a spec sheet or list of bullet-point features, and can't seem to see the attractiveness of a good-selling product, you are probably missing the forest for the trees.
[edit] Also, a futon is a bed and a couch - two use cases for the price of one! Yet it hasn't exactly taken over beds altogether. There's something to be said for devices that excel at a single primary task.
Your example of a BMW vs. a Toyota only emphasizes my original point. A BMW is fundamentally the same thing as a Toyota, but worth 3× as much. An iPad is not the same thing as a Kindle—for my purposes, the iPad does what the Kindle does except way better, plus it does a million things that the Kindle can’t do. And I wasn’t looking at a list of features, I used one.
If the iPad is a BMW, then the Kindle isn’t a Toyota that costs ⅓ as much—it’s a golf cart that costs exactly as much as the BMW. If they made a futon that is better than both a stand-alone mattress and a stand-alone couch, then, yes—it would take over beds altogether.
I have a DX. If you leave the radio on, it does not have a 2 week battery life.
If you meticulously remember to turn the kindle off _and_ you don't use it, you might limp to two weeks. But then you actually start reading a lot and maybe playing just a smidge of music to drone out crowd noise and you're at maybe 2 days of medium use.
Better than an iPad, but it's not some magical perpetual motion reader.
Yes, the radio messes things up, which is why I leave it off 99% of the time. It's mostly useless when I'm just reading.
2 weeks if you don't use the Kindle? I'm confused as to how you came up with that. Some quarters I will go months without a chance to read. I turn off the wireless, my Kindle 2 auto-sleeps, and it still has a mostly-full charge months later.
If you don't use the wireless and don't play music (I find music distracting, and prefer my iPod or my stereo anyway) the battery life is truly epic. Though, this may be different for the DX.
