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by robinsoh 6y ago
I wouldn't have high expectations of SoftBank but it does illustrate one key point. Everyone noticed that SoftBank was willing to burn a couple of billion on stuff like WeWork. It is considered reasonable in the VC/private venture
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by robinsoh 6y ago
4096 implies 4 bits per color. I don't think they can do that with their tech. Their tech is based on pigments. So I don't think they have 4096 pigments in each pixel. I think maybe 32 pigments at best and this isn't like LCD
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by robinsoh 6y ago
I don't think waveshare manufactures panels. They're an integrator that sells lots of different stuff. I'm pretty sure they buy panels from different vendors and put them together with their kits. E-ink is like the liquid cry
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> My Paperwhite from 2015 is pretty identical to ones sold now Yes, you're right if you're looking at update time of the display, which I have. There's pretty much no improvement. That's due to the physics of pigment
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> They're famous for patent-trolling and disrupting anyone elses effort's to do anything with the tech I work in the display industry and have never heard of this. I don't see any data showing this either. Could you show u
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by robinsoh 6y ago
I'm working in the display industry. I've never heard anyone in our industry talk about this "tarpit" or "locking down". Could you explain exactly what you mean or what you are claiming?
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> I think eInk is a great example of how the patent system discourages useful innovation. Could you explain this? Because which patent is discouraging useful innovation? I'm actively working in the display industry and have no idea
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> Most other competitors to eInk (e.g. Qualcomm/Mirasol, Gyricon, etc.) had viable products and have completely failed in the market. I wasn't aware Mirasol ever made it out of handmade demo units. Maybe they did manage to prod
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by robinsoh 6y ago
"E Ink is part of a consortium that owns all the patents around the technology used in their ePaper displays." That appears to be nonsense as far as I know. And I'm actively involved in the display industry. I keep seeing thi
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> I was not on the project and I'm not in purchasing, so I don't know the details, but from what I heard it was quite odd. Ok. > The vendor (not e-ink, but a downstream integrator) was first willing to sell thousands of unit
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> when the e-ink patent overlords Any evidence of this? Everytime someone mentions this, I ask, and I get no evidence. If this kind of allegation was true, I'd expect tonnes of publications to jump on this. > our company tried
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> If the makers of the reMarkable would push a bit more into the direction of enabling users to create software, as in documenting the system and creating APIs/libraries to use for integration into the existing software stack, this
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> This means that making e-ink displays requires putting-up a specialized factory or retooling an old LCD factory that might no-longer be competitive for making LCD's. Regardless of the approach, this is likely to be a very expensiv
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> Looking up their patents ( https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-corporation?page=3 ...), looks like their earliest patents are from 1998, so those should be expired already. everytime this topic of EInk comes u
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> E-ink, the company, holds the patents of the pigment core tech that makes "paper-like" displays possible and strongarms the display manufacturers and the users of their displays to absolute silence. Any research project or st
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by robinsoh 6y ago
I don't see a concrete answer to the simple question of which patent it is that is blocking the industry. Is that question somehow illegitimate?
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by robinsoh 6y ago
Isn't that a Trumpism? "People said". I noticed nobody answered the simple question of which patent is blocking progress.
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by robinsoh 6y ago
It is when it is not applicable to the topic being discussed.
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> Especially after the patents run out. I see this mistaken assumption repeated everywhere by people unfamiliar with the display technology industry. You can attend display conferences and see lots of startups trying to make stable displ
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> As the technology improves It can't improve unless you change the underlying physics. Electrophoretic displays like E Ink's use particles in a solvent. They can't move fast because fast moving particles are not going to
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by robinsoh 6y ago
> When only 1 company can make the displays It sounds true but it is inaccurate. E-Ink doesn't even make the displays. They just make the material used in the displays. The actual displays are made by sandwiching the material on TFT