Jeff Bezos on the Future of the Kindle

With Apple dominating the tech-market with the worldwide release of the iPad, one may have expected Amazon to take a step towards making the Kindle a more multi-function device. However, Amazon head Jeff Bezos seems to have hit that idea on the head when speaking recently about the future of the device:

Bezos emphasized the presence of the Kindle as a device for “serious readers” and insisted that this is not meant to be a multipurpose device so much as a specialty tool with a distinct purpose. Future plans for Kindle development may include the color screen that some have been pushing for, but certainly not the next model, to judge from his comments about what a complicated technology it is to get right. While it would, of course, be simple to make a device with a color LCD display, it would run counter to the purpose of the device; namely to create a reading device for those who love reading.

One rumour doing the rounds is that the next version of the Kindle will simply look to shave down in size.