>eInk patents have mostly expired
Bros... Are we finally going to see actual innovation?
>eInk patents have mostly expired
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no, just an incremental improvement before someone patents the hell out of that too.
innovation comes from the chinese, who don't care about patents anyways
*Japanese
deluded
nips haven't done anything relevant in 30 years
toyota is carrying that entire country
China has literally never invented anything that wasn't stolen from america
They did. And nowadays they are the only ones innovators, just look at their cities. Keep coping and seething
>just look at their cities
Can't argue with that, they indeed brought some uniqueness in their cities westerners have never had.
those are fake cities, nobody lives there
fr fr no cap
they did nothing retard. anon is right, chinks are only good at stealing
kek, why chinks copy everything? It's mindless drones led by commies. They want what they will never have.
>innovation comes from the chinese
they just mindlessly copy
no.
the reason patent laws exist is to make sure innovation happens.
when the companies don't have a patent they don't have a reason to innovate.
Retards in LULZ defending the outrageusly absurd modern patent system
Bullshit, might have worked at some time in the past
There is financial incentive for companies to fuck with companies trying to make any use of their patents. No one is going to touch patented shit with a ten foot pole even if they have a really great idea because the patentholder can just fuck with them. There isn't even financial incentive for a company to bring their patents to market or collaborate which is worse because companies like squirreling away employees and just not letting them do their own thing since that would mean creating competition.
That's not even getting into how ridiculous some of the patents being awarded are. Everyone knows about subgames in loading screens by now.
Everybody can use patented material provided they pay for them. Patents have been used this way for over a century.
>Are we finally going to see actual innovation?
hope so cuh
Lord I want an affordable eink montior.
$1800 is pretty affordable.
not in my eyes. but this is coming from someone who is using a $40 1280x1024 monitor...
Depends on what you mean by innovation. We're going to see a drop in prices and more screen size options probably, other than that I dunno.
Why would that happen? If anything prices will go up in the future.
The currently offered sizes are fine, I just wish they'd change the aspect ration to 1.41:1 instead of 4:3.
>Why would that happen?
Because there's actually competition now.
There isn't. No other company is seriously investing into electronic paper.
OLED is also only manufactured by a small number of companies and prices remain high even after patents expired.
The biggest problem is the lack of scale for production.
eink doesn't scale because the devices last a lifetime so there isn't much money to be made.
t. using the same pocketbook since 2012
I have looked deeply at the boox Mira pro and its competitors, and I can't help but think "this technology is in its infancy and will be much better in 5 years."
Therefore, I wait.
Definitely want an e-ink monitor someday. Preferably a more productive aspect ratio like 3:2 or 16:10.
Things don't get better if nobody buys them now.
>Please give me money for shit product now sir, I promise I will make good product soon and you will pay more for that also!
No
well the lcd was first invented in 1968 and it took until the early 2000s for it to become the widespread computer monitor
Raster LCD saw a lot of applications in the 80s and 90s in things like laptops.
Segmented LCD were widespread for watches and other limited displays.
Replacing CRT as the dominant display technology wasn't everything.
E ink regularly creates now patents for different innovative technologies.
The patents have never stopped other companies from developing their own versions of electronic paper. They just aren't used by reputable manufacturers because they are terrible in comparison.
The biggest hurdle in innovation for e-readers was Amazon.
They managed to corner the market while dumbing their devices down further and further. They dropped the DX line and never invested into color technology.
The Scribe only came out after they saw their monopoly threatened by new developments from China.
Doubt it. It seems the technology is fundamentally flawed, like flash RAM. Best you'll see is bandaids slapped on it.
The tech works pretty well.
Some people just can't accept that not everything needs to be refreshed 30 times per second or things that cost more than $3.50.
it's good for digital signs or other things displaying static images (like ebooks)