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> But it looks to me that the pricing for the display modules is holding that market back. Maybe because of a patent or something and not enough competition. N
by robinsoh 5y ago
> But it looks to me that the pricing for the display modules is holding that market back. Maybe because of a patent or something and not enough competition.
Nope. It is volume. In the display industry, if you're selling less than a million panels a month, then you're a niche exotic industry. E Ink is probably not even reaching 50% of that. Think about this way. E Ink in the display market is unfortunately the equivalent of a sports car in the car market. It'll only become cheap if it can defeat or be competitive with LCD/OLED displays and step up to reasonable volumes, and that's unlikely to happen just due to the physics of electrophoretics.
- ilaksh 5y agoJust consider the batting average for the mass of people who predicted over the decades that technology X or technology Y would never be affordable.
- robinsoh 5y agoTheir batting average is much better than you may think. Most technologies fail out. Remember the tonnes of people who fell prey to OLPC'S Jepsen claims about transflective being the next big thing. There's this funny thing called survivorship bias that causes people to misunderstand "batting average". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
- ilaksh 5y agoThat wasn't just about transflective, that was about OLPC. And that's the one example you can give? I know what a batting average is. Your comments are insulting in a backhanded way. Everything new from the car, airplane, computers, phones, OLED, has had people like you claiming it was never going to be economically viable.