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Originally Posted by ManDay
There is nothing wrong with it. It's a brilliant device. But its time has come, It is older than a year now, has a stable OS and, besides being a niche product, will likely not receive any further investments from the manufacturer. If SONY deems the category sustainable (which I doubt they do), they will likely shift development to a new device now. The device's hardware is 1.5 to 2 years old now. Pushing it further wouldn't make much sense. At least not to me, if I were SONY.
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I see what you mean. I'm all for a DPT-S2, even though I just bought this one - it would mean that the market for such devices is healthy (actually, very healthy given the high price of the DPT-S1). However I don't think making a new
hardware prevents there being new
software. Just like you can upgrade an old iPad with a new iOS, we should be able to as customers upgrade to the latest firmware of the new device - should there be a new device.
I do not think that my feature requests are difficult to implement. Adding colors is a nonissue - that's 2-3 more lines of code given that they likely have the color choice hard-coded somewhere with an RGB setting. The split-screen is more difficult but can be copied/inspired from open source PDF readers for PC that do it and, if it makes for a more powerful feature set that attracts more customers (I'm sure it would), this couple-of-day endeavour should be justified. In fact, employing a programmer to make this feature in two weeks, getting paid $80'000/year, will pay itself after 5 readers are sold - and I am
sure many more readers than that would be sold because of such a feature. Split-screen is the second-best to the power of paper in being able to look quickly in several places of the book
at once. Finally, the same goes for a modifiable table of contents - perhaps amortizing the time spent on these two features will be 10 readers sold, worst case estimate.
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Originally Posted by digiflash
As I wrote an email and got a feedback. October 2015 is ETA. But CAD Reader doesn't seem to be what I was looking for. It has a Stylus and so on but the DPT-S1 is much more a reader and able to take notes. CAD Reader is really designed for CAD applications and not for taking notes. So I will buy the Sony device.
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digiflash, I've been writing to Pocketbook literally for more than a year before deciding to buy the Sony. In fact, I wrote to them in 2014 back when the CAD Reader was supposed to come out in Summer 2014. Then in Summer 2014 it got delayed to Winter 2014. Then they said it'll come out Spring 2015. Now they're telling you it'll be October 2015. What I say - it'll likely not come out this year, and perhaps never, given the trend that I'm seeing here. It's been delayed for a full year now!