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Originally Posted by Franky
yup, it looks like it's over. a bit the same as with IREX. a super ereader and suddenly the company was down the drain.
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Could be worse- I
contemplated iRex and then they went under. Had to settle for an eBay iLliad rather than a new iLliad 2. Hence grabbing an eDGe from the source as soon as I heard about it. I guess I accidentally contemplated Entourage somewhere in there as well, in spite of my best efforts to impulse-buy >.<
Edit: Coming from my own patent-obsessed branch of the tech industry, I half wonder if iRex and Entourage are less of a coincidence than first appears. I wouldn't be surprised if combining e-paper and stylus-input is such a good idea that someone is being an IP-@$$ about it and while the big players like Sony know enough to pre-cripple their stylus input to only do hilighting and thus avoid IP issues, the small guys who have the great idea to actually do a useful drawing-type e-paper input get sued, blackmailed, or otherwise legally drop-kicked behind the scenes by whomever has the patent and wants to see more money out of it than the small guys are worth...