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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The question is whether it ever will be there.
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Dennis
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Just quoted to give some context, but in general I would agree with all you have spoke, actually i do agree, considering current times.
But as I've stated I was considering the importance of that being 'one step' in a LONG time frame. Not something for the next 5/6 years, but something in between the next 10/15.
If u'd take a long study in most techs we use today, u'd see they started like 20/30 years as something that, like the color e-ink, wasn't really any useful.
And for the "whether it ever will":
Companies need to get new technologies on new products to raise sells, e-ink black and white won't last forever. Eventually every single product has it's sales peak, then it starts going down.
When the product it's technology based, u need to add a new tech on it to get a new peak. So it doesn't really matter if people will actually want a color e-ink display because they are tired of their black and white. It will just happen, and people will either have to choose between "lcd + low battery + eyestrain" vs a color e-ink. And from what I've researched already on the topic screens, I don't see anything coming for the next years that can save battery for reading like e-ink does.
Unless of course companies can come up with something better than e-ink to replace it.Then color e-ink will fade to death, because it will be replaced by some new tech. which mimics most of it's characteristics and adds some more.