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It'll be interesting to see if that prediction bears out. I'm skeptical. E-ink may be better for reading than an iPad-class LCD device, but it's certainly not
by CamperBob 16y ago
It'll be interesting to see if that prediction bears out. I'm skeptical. E-ink may be better for reading than an iPad-class LCD device, but it's certainly not a hundred times better, and that's what it will take to avoid being completely steamrollered by iPad-class devices that can offer a hundred times more functionality.
If E-ink devices are given away free in cereal boxes, then yeah, they'll win the market-share battle, but that's hardly a fair fight.
- Groxx 16y agoOh, me too, I've no idea if it'll actually happen. I just hope so. Or at least enough that it'll be a viable option, instead of having to deal with the mostly-crap lock-in readers we've got now. Emissive displays are a pain to read for a long time, IMO (and others), and they perform poorly in large amounts of light / outdoors. That, coupled with high power use, seems like a death-knell for my purposes. But I want a device I can take camping with me for a week, and never have to charge. And put ALL my books on, and screw paper forever. An iPad doesn't cut it for me (sans color-printed books / magazines of course, but I have precious few of those).