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Originally Posted by Rizla
Amazon dominates and has no interest in innovating e-ink.
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Amazon (and others) use available (Patented) Display technology, Standard Chips and other components. Even Apple. What they excel at, is the Packaging of these. Look and Feel and software UI.
Most designs are Price driven. Apple fans are the ones willing to pay extra $$ for those Retina Displays, but most mainstream devices are only prime targets for Cost Reduction.
I spent some time at a r&D facility in a group where the next lab over was a group charged with cost reducing (2nd Gen) e-readers. The scuttlebutt was over 1/2 the component
cost was the display module and there was little wiggle room.