People may think they want colour, but I'm convinced it's not as much as they don't want something resembling a glaring low grade android device, propped up on a bookshelf, with a usb power lead trailing out of it to the nearest socket.
A nice sharp grayscale, hang and forget (maybe on an actual wall), with the e-paper aesthetic, is going to beat this hands down.
I'd disagree entirely. As mentioned in my other comment, I have an e-ink tablet on a stand on my desk[1], and I think it looks stunning, especially contrast wise. It has that "real physical object" kind of aesthetic, that is virtually irreplaceable if you want a thing of beauty.
It doesn't glow in low light, and it's only increasingly visible as Ambient light gets brighter. Those are features for a static thing to look at in my book.
That orange glow was actually terrible white balance because of the context I took the photos. I Should have corrected those pictures, that orangy hue is not how it looks.
And if cartoons, graphic novel panels, newspapers rendered on e-ink don't seem like "anything even resembling art" to you that's fine. It's the most subjective thing in the world, but there are a lot of people who do.
My photos were not meant to be representative of the peak of how good the screen can look, else I'd have taken them again.
A nice sharp grayscale, hang and forget (maybe on an actual wall), with the e-paper aesthetic, is going to beat this hands down.