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Originally Posted by Hrafn
I have no idea what you mean by "non-technical progresses[sic]", but if ClearInk is making all this wonderful progress, why haven't they started production yet, like they promised last year, and the year before?
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Because Rome was not built in a day. Non technical progresses: Lenovo's funding, Tianma contracted etc. For the rest, your rhetorical question is illogical so I cannot answer it.
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A screen with faster refresh rate (for example) that is not in production is no more beneficial to the end consumer than a slower screen that is likewise not in production
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How very incredible. Opposing what are you observing this?
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Has it occurred to you that the problem may be something that cannot be overcome by further tweeking of the prototypes, e.g. the economics of the manufacturing process (cost, yield rates, etc), or lack of sufficient interest from device manufacturers to go into full production?
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Of frigging course, Hrafn. That is very clear. It's the "non-technical progresses" mentioned earlier.
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No more than will your perpetual cheer-leading dent it. My viewpoint does however have the advantage of not resembling that hoary old Peanuts cartoon featuring Charlie Brown (you), Lucy (ClearInk Inc) and a pulled-away football (production)
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You are very wrong, Hrafn: I am not cheer-leading, I am showing interest in a technology, as should come without saying because otherwise what-the-frig would I be doing here. And, while I like your simile, I do not remember having ever kicked the ball - I am a different character in the background watching the game and publishing notes, in theory sharing with similarly interested people. In fact, overhearing instead people in the watching crowd lamenting that they wanted to go watch Coriolanus, what is that stupid game. Your viewpoint has the disadvantage of being idle and of zero contribution, which is anyway still more productive than viewpoints bringing negative contributions, such as "why should you read when you could play football" or "why should you read in mobility when you have an armchair at home" or even "football is played indoors".
I will express it again for clarity: the expression "They will never make it" is useless, as would be any opposite statement. That you «take ClearInk seriously» or not is "Ah, well, noted".
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If you dislike that metaphor, then the English language has a word for this circumstance: vaporware. Wikipedia defines it as "a product ... that is announced to the general public but is never actually manufactured nor officially cancelled." This would seem to describe the ClearInk limbo to a 'T'.
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Thank you, I am acquainted with the term. And your contribution there would be?