[Dulin's Books]

are the @$%&!!@# kidding?

seriously Sony can build that exact thing sans mobius display for 120 bucks at volume at most. im over a hundred there because i figured the cost for a 13.3" wacom digitizer will be 50. this pricing is suggesting that the Mobius display alone costs $300-$500 for them to build at volume.

A 13.3 IPS LCD would cost a hundredish. i think the 9.7 inch eink displays are right about $100 now total all in for a whole display. the material itself is less than half. the hi-dpi material at 13" shouldnt cost much more than than the 9.7". The flexible backplane tech cant possibly cost several hundred dollars to produce and then marry to the display material.

brother tried to sell a 9.7" eink reader as a digital printer a few years ago for $1,500 and that went no where. even though this is larger and has the flexible display they cant really believe they will sell any. it cant do anything but allow you to write on a pdf.

i understand they have allot of sunk cost in the development but wouldnt they recoup the cost faster if they sold millions of them at $300 rather than a handful or none at $1k?


edit- i might be wrong about the price. there is a suggestion it might be Ntrig instead of Wacom. Which would be fine for notes and also MUCH CHEAPER.