For some time now, I’ve believed that before we see commercially viable flexible displays that we’ll need to see other flexible devices. While there are lots of great efforts underway to develop flexible displays, there are two reasons that other devices will see commercialization before displays:
Displays are at the top of the food chain when it comes to the technologies necessary to achieve flexibility. In other words, displays are difficult to make — and the fact that the primary performance characteristic of a display is visual — the judgment criteria by which we judge …