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Originally Posted by jęd
It does when the reviewer states she read everything available about the product and then makes several basic mistakes...!
Do you...? I read it as highly inaccurate and misleading...!
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She didn't make several basic mistakes. You guys give me the impression of people screaming "noone may critizise my mother but me! she must be stupid! she can't be tech-savvy! she didn't spend enough time to get to know my mother better!". Calm down guys.
The review states three bad things about the Iliad, and
she is right:
1 - the documentation is missing. Even you, jęd, weren't able to turn it on. Read old posts in this forum to find your post where you asked where the on/off switch is. (Sidenode: And stop giving the "dead tree" figures. The impact of high-tech devices on the environment is much, much, much worse than some dead trees. The Iliad is no environment-friendly thing)
2 - the screen displays content in an unreadable font size. the folks at irex did not implement anything to make generally available content readable on the device, even though that would've been possible. In the
shop it says:
Scalable text. You can change the font size of your text to suit your own reading comfort. (Format and DRM dependant.) I think people will assume that you can scale fonts to a comfortable size in the most prominent, most important, most recognized format the Iliad displays, which is PDF.
3 - it doesn't read protected pdfs, which is a killer for people who need to read protected pdfs. She got a point there. This forum is full of people asking for DRM / protected PDF support.
The review is just a normal review of just one of the dissappointed Iliad customers. She expressed her opinion, and is right in doing so. (Is this one of the "if you're not with us you're against us" things? Too many americans in the forum?). If I bought a mp3 player and see that I have to manually reencode all my mp3's to fit the device's needs, I'd turn it down and say it's shit. Even if there's a forum where most guys happen to listen to the matching 118-kps-mono-mp3's only.
And: "Reading everything" doesn't literally mean "everything". If you read all info in the shop, ask the manufacturer, and possibly newspaper articles and tests, it should be enough. You don't have to read every forum on the internet.
And: Stop claiming that everyone should know it's beta, because:
1 - Finally we have that month where the "final consumer version" was supposed to be available, and
2 - there is a shop that sells the device to everyone. Without "attention beta" disclaimers.
Counting 1+1 together, that looks like the thing in the shop is the thing they announced as final product.