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> I’d be surprised if eInk screens are even 1% of the quantity of LED/OLED/LCD screens out there. eInk may also be fundamentally harder to manufacture due do ho
by robinsoh 5y ago
> I’d be surprised if eInk screens are even 1% of the quantity of LED/OLED/LCD screens out there. eInk may also be fundamentally harder to manufacture due do how it works (I’m not sure).
You are correct. 2021 alone would have sold well over a billion smartphones each with a display, OLED or LCD.
2021 was a banner year for ebook readers and yet I'd doubt they even reached 10 million units worldwide.
Electrophoretics just doesn't get investment because plainly speaking, the physics limits what it can do, and so nobody wants to invest big money into it. You'll see startups come and go, picking up maybe a 100 mil here and there and then burning out. That's even true across other display tech. Liquavista died. Qualcomm mirasol died.
You want improvement, somebody has to risk big money.