Quote:
Originally Posted by bowerbird
who knows how much further along the e-book revolution would be if we would have been smart enough to demand some _real_ results way back _years_ ago when e-ink started making all their promises....
|
See, the problem there is that you can't really demand true innovation. The electric light-bulb required 78
years (
1802 to 1880) to be developed to a truly commercially viable product (if you count Edison's version as the first commercially viable light-bulb) -- where would we be if results had been "demanded" after only say, 30 years? In the dark I expect.
Oh, and one other note -- E-Ink, Inc. has always been up-front about their sluggish refresh rates, I certainly knew about them long before I knew about the Libriē, for instance.