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product developer Managers are about PROFIT.
What happened was a number of Book Pushers adopted the 'Kodak' model: Sell the Camera cheap and make it on Film and processing. That pretty much killed Independent Device development as the Retail price went outside the sweet spot for VOLUME sales.
How many current e-ink devices DO NOT have a Store attached? (how often do you read here at MR, that folk are now having problems side-loading content. Those suppliers are continuously adding layers to their walled garden, trying to keep sales in house.
e-ink displays cost way more than the LCD found in many devices, again, putting those at a major disadvantage in the modern, "I want it cheap", marketplace. The number of folk like us, who love e-ink displays are not enough to support, even at premium prices, development and marketing effort
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