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Of course you are right. They won't be phasing out B&W e-ink ereaders until the color ones are at least as good ... or at least good enough... at least hopefully not.
And of course I wasn't suggesting a full comparison with Color TV versus B&W either. It was more about resistance to change, despite some level of improvement, which will likely increase over time.
While I like my tablet and use it sparingly, I don't agree it is anywhere near as nice for my older eyes as an e-ink screen is. Of course, younger eyes are mostly far more forgiving.
Sometimes I feel like that one nerdy guy that has an e-ink device, while many around me have a tablet, usually an iPad. So I certainly see e-ink devices as very niche, now that we have tablets and their benefits. Color e-ink devices, at least to my mind, are a way, if they work well enough, to reduce some of that niche aspect, perhaps even stop the decline of e-ink device uptake.
Most of us who have e-ink devices love them, and prefer them for our eyes. It has always been a costly pursuit though, for a one use device, unlike a tablet, which is generally more expensive but does so much more.
One cannot help but think of a device in terms of a cost on top of the purchase of an ebook. And if you have a few devices like me (2 Kindle, 1 Kobo and 2 Tablets), it has been an expensive endeavor for sure. But for me it has been worth it and I certainly prefer reading an ebook now. But then I make sure I have great covers that give much more or a semblance of a physical hard cover novel, and less of a techy device feel.
And while I regularly switch between my Paperwhite and my Kobo Libra H20, it is the latter with its buttons that I prefer, and for a few years now I have been mostly buying my ebooks from the Kobo store ... depending on ebook price and availability.
So I will eventually get another Kobo e-ink device, and it might as well be a color one, but I want it to be 10" too. My wife has the smaller Clara, which is better weight wise for her.
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