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rfog · 02-10-2011, 04:08 AM

I remember this was the iRex policy (ilIad, DR1000, DR800): sell hardware with firmware following as a promise behind. Promises that were never fulfilled. And they finished closing because bankruptcy. The only difference, IMHO, is that PB devices are usable as ebook readers and iRex ones didn't (due battery and performance limitations).

However I see a lot of parallelisms here.

With this I'm not saying that PB will close or any other bad thing, I'm only viewing the parallelism. And I'm not complaining about my 903: it is a good device, with a good battery duration and a good screen and it is capable to be used as an ebook reader without annotations. I know it can be better in those stuff, but my car could be better too.

However, good companies keep their promises. Here we have both Amazon and B&N, who never failed in what they said ...

02-10-2011, 04:08 AM	#61
rfog Guru Posts: 696 Karma: 2383012 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Schiedam (The Netherlands) Device: Lots of eInk devices and iOS stuff	I remember this was the iRex policy (ilIad, DR1000, DR800): sell hardware with firmware following as a promise behind. Promises that were never fulfilled. And they finished closing because bankruptcy. The only difference, IMHO, is that PB devices are usable as ebook readers and iRex ones didn't (due battery and performance limitations). However I see a lot of parallelisms here. With this I'm not saying that PB will close or any other bad thing, I'm only viewing the parallelism. And I'm not complaining about my 903: it is a good device, with a good battery duration and a good screen and it is capable to be used as an ebook reader without annotations. I know it can be better in those stuff, but my car could be better too. However, good companies keep their promises. Here we have both Amazon and B&N, who never failed in what they said ... Last edited by rfog; 02-10-2011 at 04:11 AM.