No, the high price of an e-ink device is not due to patents; it has more to do with market size, need, constraints of the device, suitable use cases, and many other socio-economic factors that come into play. With that said, we hope to offer different products at different price ranges.
E-ink isn't particularly expensive, only compared to LCDs. And LCDs are cheap because they have massive economy of scale - they sell literally billions of screens per quarter.
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No, the high price of an e-ink device is not due to patents; it has more to do with market size, need, constraints of the device, suitable use cases, and many other socio-economic factors that come into play. With that said, we hope to offer different products at different price ranges.
I'm very interested in your knowledge of the eink market, until today I thought it was some kind of cartel.
E-ink isn't particularly expensive, only compared to LCDs. And LCDs are cheap because they have massive economy of scale - they sell literally billions of screens per quarter.