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Originally Posted by HarryT
I agree that this is the most likely reason, but we don't know for sure. It's conceivable that it may be a commercial decision, with Amazon not wanting to damage the lucrative market for LCD tablets.
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Uh, if that were the case, why would they have bought Liquavista and kept investing in it? Amazon has no shortage of tax write-offs.
The tech is still under development and they are patenting methods of building products with it so they do want to use it. Besides, the tech isn't likely to be competitive for tablets; that is why Samsung sold it to Amazon in the first place. If it were suitable for tablets Samsung would be developing it themselves. It's not as if they were short of cash at the time.
The timeline shows Samsung buying Liquavista when eink was a growing business and selling it to Amazon, the biggest customer for eink displays, as soon as the ereader business stopped growing. That is a pretty big hint that it isn't competitive with LCD in color image quality. That Amazon bought it at all says they think they can use it for something other than tablets. Which, by the way, is showing signs of having peaked.
It's all reading tea leaves but the signs point two ways: a premium reading device or nothing at all, like mirasol or Canon's SED displays.
It's hard, competing economically against a mature moving target like LCD:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfa...mitter_display