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Originally Posted by Luffy
Bummer. I'm now lightly savvier from your post. I didn't come prepared. I wonder now how the eink's role will end. Not to graciously at least.
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There is still good uses for eink even in the state it is now. The screen itself been pretty flexible since 1st gen eink - the problem always was and still is to some degree the substrate it has been built on. Think of it as foundation, usually made out of glass. There is already alternatives, e.g. plastic or thin metal film - as far as I understand manufacturing is more expensive still for those. Resolution is amazing - the limits in current production screens is the control layer, not the size of the tiny micro subdots in the screen. There is virtually no limit on screen size or shape - round, triangular, star shaped works - even holes in the screen are possible (e.g. doghnuts).
Maybe not all of that is interesting for eink ereaders, but eink is not limited to just ereaders.