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CommanderROR · 04-19-2006, 06:25 AM

simple question...

when?

Oh sorry...I found it...26th-28th of April.

I sent an email to iRex asking them when the Iliad will launch and didn't get a straight answer...as expected...I dimply can't understand why the business guys these can't simple say "our device will ship on xx.xx.xxxx and that's it and then ship it!!!
Dammit!!!

It's now well into the second half of April, and if they really are planning to hold to their schedule, they'd have to know exactly when they are going to ship by now, so why not tell people?
I simply love ahem loathe this practise...announce a product for april, everybody is waiting till the last day of April, and then two weeks into May they suddenly say "Will ship in July" or something withot apology, explanation or anything.
Some companies even delay by years...suddenly a product just unexplicably isn't finished...even one year later, although you promised to release it on September 22 or something and held to that date, claiming it to be 100% accurate until it's over and there has been a "slight delay" of about a year and a half...look at Half-Life 2...

I sure hope this isn't going to happen to iRex...but I'm no longer sure...

04-19-2006, 06:25 AM	#2
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	simple question... when? Oh sorry...I found it...26th-28th of April. I sent an email to iRex asking them when the Iliad will launch and didn't get a straight answer...as expected...I dimply can't understand why the business guys these can't simple say "our device will ship on xx.xx.xxxx and that's it and then ship it!!! Dammit!!! It's now well into the second half of April, and if they really are planning to hold to their schedule, they'd have to know exactly when they are going to ship by now, so why not tell people? I simply love ahem loathe this practise...announce a product for april, everybody is waiting till the last day of April, and then two weeks into May they suddenly say "Will ship in July" or something withot apology, explanation or anything. Some companies even delay by years...suddenly a product just unexplicably isn't finished...even one year later, although you promised to release it on September 22 or something and held to that date, claiming it to be 100% accurate until it's over and there has been a "slight delay" of about a year and a half...look at Half-Life 2... I sure hope this isn't going to happen to iRex...but I'm no longer sure... Last edited by CommanderROR; 04-19-2006 at 06:32 AM.