Re:The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursu...
by ghaff on Friday July 15, 2022 @03:48PM
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Refresh times is probably part of it. And once you start creating special-purpose devices, your market drops off a lot. I guess if I spent a lot of my days reading scientific papers a Remarkable tablet might be interesting but I don't so it isn't. (And, oh, an iPad works pretty well too and I can do a lot of other things with it too.)
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Re:The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursu...
by dredmorbius on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:25PM
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Modern e-ink displays can update at about 2 Hz at highest quality and at up to ~8--10 Hz, possibly better, with reduced quality (more ghosting / lower resolution).
If usage is for reasonably static material and navigation tends to be via pagination rather than scroll, it works quite well.
Full video is possible, if of lower quality than on an emissive display.
I've written a set of my own recommendations for e-ink Web and App design here:
https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/638a8d10e041013afba844...
Mostly because it seems no one else had.