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Originally Posted by disconnected
But it isn't only people's perceptions that differ. Screens differ too. I'm afraid I'm totally ignorant of normal quality control procedures but for such an expensive device I would have thought there would be a way to check for, and weed out, units with obviously bad screens.
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Normal quality control procedures of mass-produced items like this work by checking a few items in a batch and assuming them to be representative, but it appears that with e-ink screens there is so much variation within each batch that often a pile of really bad stuff gets through even in apparently good batches. You'd think they could at least have increased the check frequency with something that costs as much as an Oasis, but given that most of the Oasis's increased cost is accounted for by the case cost I'm not sure they actually have much left over to improve QC.