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Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by SheinhardtWigCo »

pastrami_panda wrote: post #36

With all the events happening right now I find it really hard to justify buying products made in China/Russia/Belarus. This product looks great, but I'll never have a clean conscious knowing my money is by extension financing terrorists.

Worse still, Huawei is actively participating in the Uyghur genocide.

Leaked documents link Huawei to China’s domestic spying in Xinjiang: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-d...

Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55634388

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Post by murat124 »

intricatedetail wrote: post #38

The last thing I want is CPC reading my notes. Unless device can be loaded with trusted OS and air gapped I wouldn't take it even if they paid me.

You mean CCP (Chinese Communist Party).

Edit: Turns out officially it is CPC. English abbreviation is CCP.

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Post by artifact_44 »

WaxedChewbacca wrote: post #46
pastrami_panda wrote: post #36

With all the events happening right now I find it really hard to justify buying products made in China/Russia/Belarus. This product looks great, but I'll never have a clean conscious knowing my money is by extension financing terrorists.

I think you have a good notion about not buying Chinese stuff, but that reason doesn't make much sense to me. I've heard people say that the US might have caused the deaths of half a million children in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion; do you buy anything from the US?

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Post by dspillett »

DocTomoe wrote: post #18
morsch wrote: post #3

RRP €499 (around $558) according to https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/28/22954498/huawei-matepad-p...

Hm, is that really a competitive price these days? That's more than 130 Euros more than an entry-level iPad... which has a long and good track record.

The iPad probably moves a lot more units though due to more general appeal. There are economies of scale that e-ink devices don't currently benefit from.

Also if you try buy an e-ink screen as a part for a project you'll see a difference in price, which will no doubt be a factor too (though the difference you or I pay for a single unit might not be entire indicative of what is paid for bulk/regular orders by manufacturers).

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

criddell wrote: post #44
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no "other company". E-ink owns the parents, the fabs and the secret sauce to profitably producing quality e-ink film in good yelds. Even without the parents, building fabs and the film profitably without their secret sauce would be impossible. It's kind of like the early days of OLED when Samsung was the only one who could fab the tech profitably.

There are other companies now. Plastic Logic and OED are two I know of.

I checked them out and as far as I could tell, both are making displays based on E-ink's film. E-ink is also a major shareholder of Plastic Logic.

As I was saying, E-ink is the only game in town making the film. All the others are making displays based on it.

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Post by subzelo »

pastrami_panda wrote: post #36

With all the events happening right now I find it really hard to justify buying products made in China/Russia/Belarus. This product looks great, but I'll never have a clean conscious knowing my money is by extension financing terrorists.

I loved products from Huawei and Xiaomi, but also can't justify buying their products since the Uyghur situation.
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