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I wish apple would enter the eink device market. Would be a piece of cake for them and easy new revenue for the company if they even get it half right IMO

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I find comments like this strange and tbh a bit worrying too; instead of wishing for technology to get better, it's wishing for a specific company's revenue to improve.

I hope they do not enter the eink device market. Eink in general is unfortunately already suffering from the stranglehold of one giant which has locked innovation away due to its proprietary implementations. Having two will not make the situation better, only worse.

Apple is the only hope to get a quality device for the mass consumer segment. Others have tried and they have died, like Lenovo.

Several alternate eink devices are doing quite well against the Kindle. it’s true that Amazon dominates, but devices like the Kobo and others are still innovating and developing new devices, at least partly because they’re less locked-down than Kindle’s.

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