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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I'm, in some ways, as anti-Amazon as anyone here. But I find it inconceivable that Amazon's top executives would tell the engineers at the Liquavista subsidiary, who certainly exist, to do bad job. IMHO Amazon would be more than delighted if their people invented a low-power reflective display with color saturation and contrast rivaling the LCD. The problem is that, looking at the Liquavista web site, they haven't been able to invent it yet:
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You're right Steve, my statement was offhand. They bought to prevent rivals from acquiring it for sure - implying they did see potential in it, and they want to be the ones rolling the dice.
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Originally Posted by Barty
A company whose name I cannot think of at the moment showed a flexible e-ink tablet years ago. They scuttled their plan when the iPad came out.
An e-ink display without a fragile glass substrate has been possible for years. It's more feasible and arguably more useful than a poor color display. Maybe amazon will put that in their next kindle iteration.
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Might've been the Plastic Logic Que
"But the Que’s moment in the sun was short lived. Just three weeks later, at an event in San Francisco, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad — and with it effectively blew Plastic Logic out of the water."
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Why Plastic Logic failed despite the ebook boom