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Originally Posted by nekokami
I agree-- but most of the other e ink products come with a fairly fixed set of features. I think iRex is one of the worst for putting products on the market with claims to offer more functionality "soon."
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True. But another way to look at that is the other manufacturers aren't failing to live up to their promises... because they're not making any.
It all goes back to the notion of buying a device because of what it can do out of the box, not because of what you think it should be able to do, or what the company promises that it can do in the future. If you bought an iLiad because it already did what you needed, then the fact that it isn't a fixed set of features is a bonus. All of the promises of future capability haven't panned out, but a lot of them have. You don't really get any of that with most of the other devices.
People tend to forget just how much iRex has improved the iLiad since the initial release, compared to what other companies have done with their devices. They only get a bad rap because they haven't lived up to everything they've said they'd do. Would the general opinion of them be different if they never made promises, but still came out with the same improvements/updates that they have?