I think you're mixing the cost of your purchase with the cost of transflective display tech itself. The famous 100$ laptops (OLPC XO) had a very high end trans

I think you're mixing the cost of your purchase with the cost of transflective display tech itself. The famous 100$ laptops (OLPC XO) had a very high end transflective display from Pixel Qi (now defunct). The tech itself is not expensive it just seems it cannot compete with the marketing of colorful glossy display, even when those glossy displays are impossible to use in the sun.