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Despite all this, E-ink's biggest problem is that Amazon owns all the tech and doesn't want to ever see it succeed.
by rriepe 6y ago
Despite all this, E-ink's biggest problem is that Amazon owns all the tech and doesn't want to ever see it succeed.
- jfim 6y agoCan you elaborate on that? As far as I know, E ink corporation and related patents are owned by a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink#Company_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink#Company_history
- rriepe 6y agoI thought Amazon held them, my bad. I was interested in this space around the time of the Kindle Fire release. It seemed to me like they just didn't want to chase a form factor that couldn't sell 90% of their media. So maybe there is a way, but no will.
- icedistilled 6y agoyou mean being relegated being used for price tags in whole foods isn't succeeding? I really want some of those and the ability to updated them.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoMaybe you've already seen: https://hackaday.com/2020/11/27/repurposing-large-electronic-price-tags/ https://hackaday.com/2020/11/27/repurposing-large-electronic...
- icedistilled 6y agoThanks. That's pretty awesome. Looks like they did run into the issue of no data sheets and had to hack around to get/make the driver for updating the screen, which is what I expected. Hope they keep improving it! And at $15 that's a great price. I paid more for a 2.5"x1" display but I needed the friendly pi integration.