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Originally Posted by leebase

People aren’t going blind reading on lcd tablets

How do you know? In fact, given your statements, you suggest having wasted your sight to a point of not being able to see that LCD is inadequate.

You should have noticed that nowadays a large amount of marketing managers and designers are increasingly partial to worshiping satan. A web page using "font-weight: 300; color: #666;" *will* make you blind. Even, of course, in the comfort of your 26'' desktop, calibrated lighting, controlled environment (in normative theory). That it does make you blind infinitesimally means nothing, not just because "infinitesimal times by infinite equals definite", but chiefly because you are supposed to be able to notice perceptually (feedback) and intellectually that the eyes ain't happy.

The same goes for reading on the vastest majority (read: "all") of the electronic devices I have used. None of them can fully eliminate reflection. That you read on a device and even a minor shade of the background is visible is not good for your sight (and more). Currently, I am actually using a laptop with a big black umbrella facing its screen to achieve decency of visual quality - local optimality, not certified adequacy.

And this given, the basics reiterated ad nauseam remain:
-- LCD technology fights environmental light, which is at most a patchy solution: reflective uses environmental light, which is ceteris paribus clearly better;
-- TIR technology is power conservative when compared to LCD, which is certainly an important advantage;
-- LCD implementations are clearly not "use anywhere" oriented, while CLEARink is focusing on portability, which is a very sensible direction.* **

*While, I must note, many manufacturers are selling, literally, mirrors - what was used to fool aboriginals. That were not so fool to start writing on them.

**(EDIT: "sensible" for a market that probably does not involve you, so accept it that you have no use for skydiving equipment if you like the sea or scuba if you are soluble or whatever and realize it and leave divers be)

Originally Posted by leebase

LCD tablets are why eInk has plateaued

Again you are referencing a market that you are interested in referencing, as in a "strawman". As I suggested, many people nowadays are reading on mirrors: that does not make them a parameter (that makes them a non-parameter) - only for certain "marketing" people. In fact, "people" have probably never, nowhere been a normative parameter. It normally takes psychologists to appear to assume that.

Originally Posted by leebase

And color eInk isn’t going to be cheaper than lcd's

What are you talking about? This is TIR, not E-Ink. TIR should be cheaper than E-Ink and reasonably close to LCD.

Originally Posted by leebase

The education system ANYWHERE is not going to usher in the long awaited color eInk era

What are you taking about? Some education systems are reported to have expressed interest in better display technologies. Which is, well, UNSURPRISING, as an understatement.

Originally Posted by leebase

The reason CLEARInk is talking like they do is in the VAIN attempt to define a market where their product is needed and which LCD wouldn’t already meet the need. Ergo, really sunny climates with poor access to electricity. It’s ludicrous. It’s not going to happen

The market is there: hi there, here's a piece. You insist in claiming a position similar to "Here in Oslo I never felt the need for a convertible". LCD implementations certainly do not meet the need for what I do - they are barely adequate but certainly not optimal -, this is a statement, so you are insisting on denying the obvious and the witnessed.

Sunny climates are half of the world. Here is one, and very (post-)industrialized. Poor access to electricity means, at a glance, 99-point-whatever% of the land: if you do not leave your house, your own personal matter.