Seriously, that price is insane for what you get. That costs more than what gets you a top tier 32” 4K OLED screen with a high refresh rate.

Hopefully it's just a start? I would probably love to replace my displays with a high fidelity e-paper, I think it would make working much more enjoyable.

> its slow refresh rate makes it problematic for desktop computing tasks like browsing the web.

Hmm, I'm not sure what I'd use something like this for. Might be better as a phone as a follow up to their phone-size Palma e-reader.

> Seriously, that price is insane for what you get.

Sorry, but how are you evaluating that? You'd get this because you want a non-emissive display, so what other non-emissive displays are you comparing it against?

Yes, if you want better color acuity, refresh rates, or cost-per-inch, you don't want eInk.

I don't think that is news.

Otherwise you are a motorcycle rider calling cars too expensive.

My position is that you are giving up too much for that one single feature.

Payment processing is hard and high stakes though.

In hacker news terms, website up is better than website down

> An asymmetric connector shell would have done the job fine at a much lower cost

It would have done a worse job by definition. Weird take. The lightning connector was a massive competitive advantage to Apple for years and the other side of the market needed an answer.

I don't have the problems with HDMI or micro-B USB, both of which have asymmetric connector shells, like I have with USB-A. The presentation talks a lot about the costs (complexity and money) associated with the orientation-indeoendent connector. It doesn't sound worth it to me when you're talking about the scale involved.

Don't smoke kids.

Smoking kids is indeed very bad. They don't burn very well.

Roombas are incompatible with good taste (otherwise known as Persian or oriental woven rugs with tassles)

In the rare event that robovacs manage to traverse the treacherous rug tassels, their algorithm should cause them to stay on that rug and finish it before exiting.

> USD has no value other than what it can purchase in the US.

Tell me you don't know what a Eurodollar is without telling me you don’t know what a Eurodollar is.

if what a dollar can purchase in the US changes, Eurodollars also change. tell me you don't know what "=" means without telling me you don't know what "=" means

That is categorically incorrect. You are conflating purchasing power with exchange rate.