Was just reminiscing on the fact that there was a time when a majority of this board was convinced that eInk would forever rule for reading because LCD's were just too hard on people's eyes.
With the slowdown of eInk sales and the continuuing explosion of tablet sales...can we finally put this issue to bed?
Not that plenty of folks love their eInk devices...but it's clear that the market has spoken and that far and away most people can read just fine on a tablet or smartphone.
So much so, that the color eInk screens (like Mirasol) never came to market as they are solving a problem that doesn't really exist (for the vast majority).
[Edit]I should have started with this article from the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2035666.html
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Take Taiwan's E Ink Holdings Inc, which makes most of the monochrome displays for devices such as Amazon.com Inc's Kindle and Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook. After five years of heady growth during which shipments rose 100-fold, it got a jolt at the end of 2011 when monthly revenues dropped 91 percent in two months.
"The bottom fell out of the market," says E Ink Chief Marketing Officer Sriram Peruvemba.
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A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that of those Americans over 30 who read e-books, less than half do so on an e-reader. For those under 30, the number falls to less than a quarter.