Ink screen as the previous popular fried chicken how step by step to the current almost disappeared.
Ink screens, the most eye-protecting and low-energy screens, have been introduced, and have been widely used on readers before, and were once a machine for almost everyone in the student party and white-collar workers.
Why is the current ink screen not as good as before?
The ink screen did not gain more market share as it had imagined at the beginning, and the final landing was really bleak. If we dig deeper into the reasons, there are two levels of problems.
Ink screens based on readers and display applications cannot be scaled on the consumer side, which is related to the characteristics of the ink screen itself, and the biggest limitation is its cost and low refresh rate of the afterimage experience.
Compared with the mainstream LCD and OLED display, the refresh rate of the electronic ink screen is extremely low, which reduces the power consumption, and also achieves eye protection, reduces radiation, and is not easy to produce eye fatigue. However, it is because of such characteristics that the ink screen has no chance to compete with the modern electronic screen for status.
For smart devices, whether it is a mobile phone or a computer, the screen needs to display a lot of content, and the extremely low refresh rate of the ink screen cannot meet the requirements of video and rich graphics.
For the display of some video and game screens, there is still a stuttering experience, which is the biggest hard wound of the ink screen. Compared with LCD and OLED displays, electronic ink screens are more suitable for text displays with simple content and fewer changes.
In addition to compared with modern electronic screens, in the field where ink screens should be good at, e-readers, it also has its own hard wounds, content services and book updates, etc., there are deficiencies.
Taking the Most Used Kindle at that time as an example, many Kindle users at that time also reported that it was difficult to find books, the source of books was too small, and Amazon was unable to develop in the category of book content, the Kindle system was closed, the transmission method was fixed, the PDF layout optimization was not good, the content platform was generally rarely changed from the backwater, and the service and richness of the content itself were lacking.
In short, the reasons why the ink screen has become a niche screen are various, do you expect the ink screen to return to the market one day?