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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
In industry, a shortage of any kind that lasts more than a few months is proof of bad management or a planned scam. It can also be a collusion of different entities to keep prices up.
There is always a way of having a product outsourced to more effective speedier means, in time to fill a demand. The failure to do so is bad management or plain intent to capitalise. I will not make a guess at which it is in this case but it is the right of the owner of an invention to do so and I hope they make enough money before the market collapses for lack of sales.
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You can't build a manufacturing plant for something like eInk screens in "a few months". Takes more like a year to build that sort of plant.
There is no "outsourcing" available for eInk screens. There's only one company who makes them - PVI in Taiwan - and I'm sure that they are increasing their capacity as quickly as they are physically able to do so. It's in their own interests to do so - they more screens they make, the more money they make.