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Originally Posted by K-Thom
You're quite right, but don't you think a device which is advertised as being able to display DRM'd content should perform this by using the built-in firmware and reading app?
This is neither the first DRM-capable device Pocketbook built nor the first time the Adept-DRM is used in any device.
Right now DRM support is missing as much as TTS on the IQ as you buy it. You have to install additional, third-party reading apps to fill the gap. This stunt has never ever been pulled with any dedicated reading device of any company I know.
And the IQ is clearly advertised as reading device, not as tablet!
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1- Anybody who bought it as a reader, counting solely on the built-in app should return it until it does.
2- Round these parts we *knew* before ordering that the shipping firmware was incomplete.
3- This is *not* the first time PB or other ebook vendors have shipped product with pre-release firmware. It's not even the first for me (my BeBook was also shipped with missing features that were added later and needed several monthly updates to reach stability). Other companies (Jetbook, Bookeen, and iRex, at least) come to mind. Others do the same and don't even bother to issue fixes.
4- This is what playing at the bleeding edge is like. You seen the other IQ threads around here? About rooting it? About finding workarounds to the lack of Marketplace and Android memory management? About exploring android and finding good useful apps? This is what most of us willingly signed up for.
5- If it is not what you expected you have ample grounds to return it; do so. Get a Kindle or NookColor. They do what they're advertised as doing. And not much else. But what they do, they do very well. Or get an iPad.
Those are mainstream consumer products and not hobbyist products.
Given that Google does *not* license Android for tablets (much less readers) anybody buying one should know they're buying a hobbyist toy.
And toys are for playing with.
If you're not going to play with it, why keep it?
