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Originally Posted by johnnyb
As a former Boox 60 user and part of the booxusers community I have an explanation why the community is dead.
Because Onyx policies are so detrimental to any form of community participation that sadly, everyone except for a few geeks doing nothing reading related at all are still messing with their devices.
Onyx have shown disregard for the community and the open-source world so many times already, I wouldn't use their stuff if I got it for free...
They are really, and sadly, a cheap Chinese copycat company of the worst kind.
(and originally I came here because I was interested in their M92, it only seems that they haven't invested any effort at all in usability, judging from the comments on problems here)...
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I am not sure that I understand your frustration (if any) or comments. I do agree that Onyx could have been more open to the community but on the other side if the SDK and the sources are there you do not need their blessing to hack the device. As long as is it open to hacking you can not seriously ask for more. In the end being the only source of software might be a good tactic for increasing profits.
You are right in one respect, they are a small company and I guess hardware production itself might be a problem. Scaling up might be a problem for such a company on both fronts software and hardware. Having to deal with community requests might also be a challenge when you are short of staff.
At this monent other that PB903 this is the only decent reader for PDF reading and annotating...
I see that you own a kindle, I don't think that your kindle is better in any of the above mentioned respects. I would dare to say, on the contrary....