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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
People's expectations about what a sane price would be are based on prices of devices that are sold in far larger numbers and heavily discounted.
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I've gone through quite a few dev kits here for various electronics parts over the years (not referring to the populist items like RPi's / Arduinos) one gets used to the costs associated with such things.
For eInk-13.3" I was thinking in the range of $1200~$2000, the controller side is already a well defined system so far as the ARM+storage/interfacing+OS goes. I'm not sure if the actual screen controller had to change a lot in this incarnation ( though given that there's a Indigogo controller purporting to support 6, 9 and 13" displays it doesn't seem like there has been ).
I agree, dev kits are obscenely expensive for the mfg'er to initially develop, but that's usually a bit of a loss-leader to draw in the designers.
I dare say I'm just a bit biased/twitchy because of my intense need for such a device
