Thread: E Ink net sales plunged 46% in Q2 2013, is still upbeat
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Old 08-17-2013, 12:54 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
New technology always starts out very expensive and then drops in price. I can remember when a VCR was right round $1000.00 and then it slowly went down til the average person could afford one. Of course then they brought out the DVD player which started out expensive and now is very cheaply priced. E-readers are just following the same trend as far as pricing I think. E-Ink does have advantages over lcd. You can read out of doors for one thing. When I do that I try to be in some shade but even in the shade if you try to read an LCD screen all you see is a greyed out screen. A dedicated reader of course can't have too many extras added or it ceases to be a dedicated reader.
Haha. My first VCR was $1400

Price means quite a bit to me, but I read so much, I'd pay several hundred all over again for something radically better. I'm not bitching about what I have, but we all know how much the hardware has improved, and IMO the software is just a wee bit flakier on some of the newer models than the 2010 models.
Not that I have tried them all by any means.

I don't want my reader to be a tablet, I don't even use most of the current extras. I'm fine with current display technology and battery life, but I expect these to improve one of these days.

I know from my own history that I will fork out fairly big bucks for something better. 40 years ago I had a thermal dot matrix printer which I paid a handsome sum for, then a dot matrix, then a color inkjet and now the wireless color laser for less than 1/4 of what I paid for any of the others

Perhaps the dedicated reader market is limited a bit, but how many people would own color inkjets if they were still over $1000 or many of the tech toys we take for granted. The cell phone market should be saturated by now, but lots of people paying big bucks for fairly small improvements.

I'd pay more for a whiter display, and more reliable software. I'd even pay more than the going market price for a reader with a narrower bezel that looked less like a picture frame.

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