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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Amazon abandoned Mirasol as they bought it from Qualcomm.
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Citation? I thought it was an actual eink they bought, or have they also bought Mirasol? Also Qualcomm likes income from patent royalties, especially double dip, so while they might sell exclusive rights to develop and make it, they'd keep the IP.
Qualcomm themselves "buried" Miralsol. One erearder made for two Chinese bookshops was sold. While it's much faster than eink and inherently coloured, it's allegedly not very good.
I never figured if the issue was quality not living up to Qualcomm hype, or real cost (can't be cheap and maybe high defect rate), or people baulked at Qualcomm royalties (a per device charge and also a percentage of the maker's sale price for entire product). It's maybe 16 years since first demo.