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Originally Posted by sasilk
They have also said, unfortunately, that while they do plan to continue supporting the iLiad there are no plans to add any further functionality to it. So say goodbye to the power management etc that's been an ongoing promise...
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I'm not sure specifically which promise you're referring to, but they've said that power management is pretty much done on the iLiad. They did originally promise suspend/hibernate and later said that they won't be able to deliver it. That's old news though. In one of the recent updates they started throttling back the CPU in between page turns, which has made a big difference in the battery life. That's about as good as they can get it though, which is what they're currently saying. I'm not aware of any recent power management promises which they have made.
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That also indicates that they consider the DR a successor to the iLiad - if they were complementary then they would continue development on both so as to serve the different markets that each is meant for.
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They've said that the main reason they are not continuing development of the iLiad is that they don't have enough resources to work on both. They made a decision to focus most of their efforts on the new device only. I think whether they discontinue the iLiad completely in the future, or else continue to sell it and provide minimal software development, probably depends on what the sales are like. If sales almost entirely switch over to the DR, then they'll probably treat the iLiad as a dead product. If the iLiad continues to sell though, that gives them motivation to budget at least some time towards working on it (likely only bug fixes and small improvements though).