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Originally Posted by taming
Let me think about this, do we believe your conjecture , or do we believe Sameer Hasan, the Director of Product Management for Kobo Devices, who said that they had been working with their partners on this device for a year. You can read between the lines when a question is not clearly answered, but it is a big step to essentially call someone a liar.
From Sameer in Post 18 in this thread |
LOL. What Kobo says doesn't mean anything.
I've worked in several support and advisory functions. Sometimes I told a customer (or better, *had* to tell customers) things that were not true because of company policy. Like: "No, we do not know exactly if and when a successor to product X will be released, as we are not the R&D team. At this point, we have no information about an impending product release."
This answer would eventually end up on the internet as the truth because some representative of Company X said so.
All the while I knew the successor would be announced exactly two weeks later. Or that there never would be a successor. Or something.
I expect this to be the same with any company. Of course Kobo will *never* admit that they jumped on the chance to get a batch of screens that where not intended for them originally, and rushed a design to put them to market ASAP, or worse, just bought the reader as it was designed for Barnes and rebranded it after adjusting their firmware to run on it.