Sure it’s a niche, but I’m a software engineer and work mostly text-based. I’d love to be able to sit outside with my laptop while writing code, but with regular displays that is basically impossible. An e-ink display would allow this.
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Reflective lcd could also do this with a lot less drawbacks.
Though I am curious how einc develops now that the patents have run out and there is actual competition going on.
There is also the very expensive einc with a transparent oled over it that could cover most of both usecases but I doubt that’ll happen for a ton of reasons.
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Working in the sun and outside is a lot more comftable.
There is a lot of advantages to e-ink displays. See this post that surfaces 3 days ago in hacker News : The computer built to last 50 years
Also, it is possible to have a bit of both worlds with a transflexive LCD. That’s the technology that the OLPC XO-1 laptop had, and they could manufacture a cheap (although not very large) display that worked like e-ink when there is no backlight, and like a regular LCD (perhaps of lesser quality) when backlight is on.
I believe there would be people that would like this kind of display. I’d be one, if only to be able to work outside on the laptop.