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Originally Posted by Hrafn
color reflective technology [...] through placing a colorising filter [...] for the foreseeable future will be inferior to B&W in terms of resolution, clarity and cost [...] There is a large market for eReaders for reading predominantly text-based books, particularly genre fiction [...] this B&W-dominated niche will continue to exist for the foreseeable future.
[...] E-Ink's dominance is unlikely to be dethroned any time soon
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I don't think anyone is betting on Triton's basic variations.
The argument, as I read it, would be that "Fiction readers are already plentifully satisfied by EPD - EPD will remain the dominant choice for them". Which is good - and of course no technology which is useful in some context should vanish.
But those lucky sons-of-a-saddle, oh I remember when I myself devoured fiction too, sweet were the times, represent a component of all the "mobile readers", roughly countable in billions.
It is probably worth mentioning that the choice is not univocal: one has LCD, OLED, EPD, paper...
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Originally Posted by Hrafn
The existence of a substantive/'mass' market generally requires a mature technology
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The judgement of "maturity" is somehow subjective. But anyway here in the big topic the bet is not on the stock market (on the sales of Displays Inc.), it is on the advantage of availability to the individual "early" adopters.
(Edit: well, there are really both bets. Myself, I am interested in getting my own device.)