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The good news for Amazon is that such a device won't exist at an affordable price point for years. Color e-ink might be on its way in the relatively near future
by mattmaroon 16y ago
The good news for Amazon is that such a device won't exist at an affordable price point for years. Color e-ink might be on its way in the relatively near future, and at reasonable pricing in the mid term, but with refresh rates fast enough to play games and watch video on (and really that's what the iPad is for) at reasonable pricing is farther away than any sane business plans for.
Also when it does exist Amazon won't care, so long as you buy your books on it through them.
- jacobolus 16y agoYou’ll notice he said “something like Pixel Qi”. Mary Lou’s first such screens were designed for the OLPC laptops – IOW, cheap cheap cheap – and I would imagine future Pixel Qi screens will be quite cost competitive.
- angstrom 16y agoMirasol seems very close, but I haven't seen any price points yet: http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/sid-2010 http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/sid-2010 http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/publisher http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/publisher
- patrickgzill 16y agoDepends on whether or not PixelQi and others are able to deliver such a display based on LCD technology. Economies of scale for LCD as found in laptops, tablets, TVs, etc. are huge, vs. the relatively tiny market for e-paper / e-ink. If (currently a big "if") a decent reader-like display can be made from LCD, the market will quickly shift to it based on cost alone.