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$100 million isn't a very big chunk for the e-ink crowd.
they've gotten amounts that big time and time again...
and burned through every one of them.
and the product that they've turned out -- finally! --
is the one you see today, in the price-range of $300,
in the sony reader. they were quick to tell you about
low energy requirements (only needed on pageturns!),
but they conveniently forgot to mention the slow refresh,
as well as the ugly reverse that preceded the slow refresh.
and i'm still not sure how they will manage copy-and-paste.
(or if the lack of any search functionality is related to e-ink.)
the point is, they're simply not telling you the truth about e-ink.
they just keep snowing us with hype, and you keep buying hype.
me, well i stopped believing them a long, long, long time ago...
i still _want_ the product. i want it to be everything they promise.
but i won't believe it until i see it, working with no hidden gotchas,
at the affordable price that they've been bragging about all along...
and remember, the people chipping in the most recent $100 million,
and probably the people who chipped in the $100 million before that,
and the people who chipped in the $100 million before _that_, will
most certainly want to be repaid (with a handsome return) _before_
the price drops to a level that you and i consider to be "affordable"...
so, um... don't hold your breath, that's what i'd recommend...
-bowerbird
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