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Originally Posted by leebase
The reason we don’t have now and probably never will have a reflective color ink technology come to mass market use....is that we now already have color tablets and phones at prices so low there simply isn’t room for a new tech entrance GIVEN that far and away most people have no trouble reading on a device.
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Small cheap Kindle tablets and similar other brands are priced low. However, large size color tablets for reading pdf's, color comics, magazines, etc (the very market these color e-ink devices are aimed at) are definitely not "low" priced. 12" Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, HP, and other large tablets start at over $1200. here in Canada.
Lots of people would welcome a large 12" or more color e-ink device if it were competitively priced.
The promotional brochure for the Wacom device featured in the video claims it is shatterproof, something that is already an advantage over other e-readers. It also said mass production is scheduled for 2020 Q2 and several companies have put in orders.
By next summer we should know whether this is vaporware, what exactly these things are, what sizes are available, and what the price points are.