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Originally Posted by slayda
Perhaps not for much of the electronics but I believe it is for the e-ink display, which, IMO, is the cost driver for these devices. I may be wrong ang the developers of the E-ink displays may be gouging the market but I personally do not believe that to be true.
A lot of research went into those diplays and they deserve to recoup their expenditures. Just one man's opinion.
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Where is the line between recouping expenditures and shameless exploitation? There lies one of my preferences between eInk and reflective monochrome LCD.
LCD technology is mature, fast, only a little more power hungry than eInk, and arguably easier to read. eInk is revolutionary, proprietary, slow, and very battery friendly. On that only a little less than level playing field, I'll opt for cheap every time!