Thread: Kobo Firmware 3.11.0
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Old 10-23-2014, 12:35 AM   #107
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Alastair_S View Post
So where do Kobo get ideas for their products,
No idea. But, it is probably some marketing "brain". Or copying what someone else is doing.
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and what do 'typical users' have that we don't?
They just turn the device on and read. They don't change fonts for each book, they don't add extra fonts, they don't use the shelves, they probably buy books from the shop attached to the device, they probably have less than 100 books and probably less than 20 on the device. They don't worry about DRM, they just follow the instructions for getting the books onto the device.

We here are a lot more demanding. We want the device to work the way we think it should work. We probably have a lot more books. They might not all be on the device, but the fact that we can move them on and off makes us different. We'll consider editing the books. DRM is the bane of our lives.

The above is just my opinion and I'm being simplistic. But, these devices are consumer devices and the knowledgeable users (us) make a very small fraction of the potential market. Catering for us is unlikely to have a noticeable affect on the companies sales. But, it will drive the development cost up.
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