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Originally Posted by emellaich
Robert,
I agree with Walk Broad. I am excited by your participation here, and excited by the things I hear you talking about. I am nervous that you may have a tough time delivering everything that you are working towards.
Three sizes, colors, wifi options, touchscreen options, two reader versions. a web browser, and more.
Furthermore, we have experience with vendors that push out a first gen device, and then aren't able to keep up the support. I'll almost guarantee that there will be compromises with the first generation unit. For example, I can think of one book reader that has a library that is hard to navigate if you have hundreds of books. Unfortunately, they are real slow on updates.
If your software engineers are worried about two reading apps, and a web app (and more), and they have to adapt to different physical interfaces (touchscreen versus buttons) then improvements will take forever.
I would rather see you push out a single, solid, but basic first gen device, and then see you improve that device steadily through software updates.
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Dear Emel:
Your input is well received.
Part of this partnership we have is the manufacturing might of Netronix. Netronix and Astak are cooperatively owned. They have the engineers and the manpower and the experience. You are right, we could never handle this ourselves and would go nuts.
They are planning the sizes and such of the eBook Readers and we are only changing them for the American market to a large degree. They have the three sizes already and now there is rumor (not substantiated yet) of an 8 inch size. That is why we are staggering the roll-outs and bringing out the basic 5 inch first. That is a lot easier to get exactly right and most of the changes are cosmetic and ergonomic.
I will write more byt am going out the door now to a meeting.
robertb