I get the category is too niche for a 2 Trillion dollar company. But hearing Stephen gush over the Onyx Boox Palma just reignited my desire for an Apple Ecosystem first Eink Device. Apple Books is languishing on the vine, and with their recent spate of focus tools and well being apps. An Eink iPad made for focus and reading would be amazing.
Would you buy one if such a product existed?
Instant Buy for me. With all the seamless integration within the Apple Ecosystem it’s not brainer.
E-ink devices have so many drawbacks beyond simple e-reading that I do not think that one would even feel like an Apple device, let alone fit well into the Apple ecosystem.
And you can be sure that Apple has tested an “e-ink iPad” and will sell one when Apple thinks it is good enough.
If Apple were to use a 60 fps eink screen, like the Daylight Computer, that would overcome a lot of the frustrations that result from slow eink screen refresh times. I would certainly purchase one.
I wouldn’t
I cannot see Apple providing such a device which would meet my needs at a reasonable price and playing nice with Amazon or other vendors.
If they did, the quality would likely be very good. Probably too good, and too expensive.
I do see myself getting a Remarkable. I want a browserless reading and writing experience.
When my iPad gives up the ghost, this looks promising.
I have tried writing on Remarkable 2 at BestBuy, and I love it more than the Amazon Scribe.I have not pulled the trigger yet. Thinking of getting it myself.
I’ve heard such bad things about the ability to get at your data from Remarkable, Boox and Scribe to use it outside the device that I would get frustrated.
And that Amazon built the Scribe and didn’t include page turn buttons for THAT PRICE!
heck if Apple bought the remarkable and gave iCloud integration, and a few core apps (Freeform, calendar, journal etc…) but let them do their own thing like Beats Id be happy.
Find that hard to believe with the Boox considering its full Android.
I would buy that in an instant! Even with a very limited version of iOS. Alas, do not think this is going to happen any time soon.
Circa 2009ish, as the iPad rumors were culminating, I remember wishing they would release a Kindle competitor / eink device instead. An alternate timeline…
An eink device is nice and I often think about buying one to replace my unused ancient Amazon Kindle.
But I find reading on my iPad mini to be quite satisfactory. And when I want an e-ink device, well, that Kindle still works fine.
It certainly would not replace my iPad
I don’t see a compelling argument to own a Mac, an iPad, an iPhone, and also an eInk device- not to mention perhaps Vision Pro if/when the price comes down
So I don’t see how it would fit in the Apple lineup
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of Android.
Still love using my Kindle - 90% of my reading is done on my Paperwhite…it’s great!
I have written about this several times (most recently in this thread) and I would definitely buy an Apple e-ink device. It’s extremely frustrating not to be able to use one within our personal Apple ecosystems and whilst it would definitely be a smaller market than their other products, it’s no different to them producing the Vision Pro, which will also be a small market. I’ve been extremely frustrated by my experience of having to go elsewhere to find the device that I need.
For what it’s worth though, I went with Boox which is Android, which I felt under the circumstances was the closest I could get to what I want. Which is basically just an iPad with an e-ink screen.
Someone mentioned the Daylight Computer in this thread, which aside from lots of marketing blurb doesn’t seem to be doing anything novel. The Boox Go is already at 300dpi. The experience on an e-ink device would be slower than on other iOS, there’s no avoiding that, but otherwise such a device would be fine. If Android software is fine I have no doubts about Apple’s abilities to accommodate it.
My Kindle Paperwhite just died after just 14 months. Screen was stuck on Homescreen.
I sent to the Kindle service centre and they said all we can do is offer you â‚ą2K ($23) for it.
I don’t want to buy another Kindle after this bad experience, but everything else is so expensive. If I’m buying an expensive e-ink product I really want it to last at least 5-6 years. And if Apple makes one, I’ll be comfortable buying it.