I think the use case would be for laptops, for people who want to comfortably use their laptops outside or just want their laptop screens to be easier on the eyes. Only slightly different to a tablet insofar as it has a physical keyboard, so i imagine the tablets could be adapted.
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frezik@midwest.social 3 weeks agoMight not need anything except economies of scale. But getting that is the problem.
Tablet sized eink displays found a niche that couldn’t quite be displaced by smartphones and regular tablets. That let them have a market for getting costs down.
There would need to be a similarly wide use case to get the price down on larger eink displays.
communism@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
filcuk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There are some annoying usability limitations still, but it has progressed far since early ebook readers, so I’m hopeful.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
And competition. AFAIK, E Ink Corporation holds all the patents, so they can ask for as much as they want for the tech.