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Old 08-04-2014, 06:22 AM   #3
doktorek
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Device: Onyx M96
Well, fair enough I haven't even tried scribbling while trying to get the reading working, just saw some problems reported.

I agree that response is very poor. I understand Booxtor is busy etc. but I feel like I bought a product with alpha software or at most early beta. It would be OK if it was advertised that way, but there is no mention of that.
Unfortunately, it's kind of a trend on the market, with products being pushed to the market as soon as possible and then you have to wait months for patches.

Wiki would be great, even better would be open sourcing the firmware and letting the community do the job - I'm a software developer and I would just fix my problems myself, or at least would try to, instead of waiting for an unknown time to have them addressed in the first place. Great example is an mp3 player I bought some years ago - it played flac files encoded with defaults with lower pitch than CD player. They promised to fix this "in the next update". It took them over 2 (!) years to release a patch (beacuse in the meantime there was a follow up product etc. - probably same will happen or already is happening with M92). At this point, I was not even paying attention, because community released alternative firmware which was 100 times better at everything.

Booxtor - is there any chance community could help developing/fixing the software? Filing bugs is just a waste of time, if there are not enough people to even address them and I've read many times already that you've been working too many hours daily (I'm not even starting on efficiency of that - we all know what's the daily average).

Last edited by doktorek; 08-04-2014 at 06:24 AM.
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