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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
Despite eink technology having reached pretty much a developmental dead end some time ago and be in decline, they will keep their ereaders going as long as possible. They and their hangers on will extoll their virtues as devices for "real" readers, and continue to parrot misleading memes to the uniformed such as "no light shining in your eyes".
If they don't push their devices, and eink ereaders become like the carthorses of the transportation world (as they will), it would seem to me they will lose their point of differentiation and find themselves in an already pretty much saturated LCD and OLED display market battling the likes of Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, etc. And then further battle with those companies as they bring new display technologies to the market.
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What hyperbolic ... ahem. I've used both eInk eReaders and smartphones and tablets. It's not a matter of "misleading memes" -- it's a matter of what's more comfortable for reading. No contest for me, eInk eReaders's screens are superior. They also have longer battery lives (by far), are lighter and have the virtue (in my opinion) of being single use. You may disagree with my preferences, that's your prerogative, but the tablets and smartphones you're shilling aren't much newer than eInk eReaders. As a matter of fact, they pretty much grew up together.