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Originally Posted by Gertjan
Interesting stuff. They appear to have high expectations of community development to extend the software features which are not there when they release the product. Having an open system is definitely a plus but the community will not develop the product.
iRex, for example, provided sources and SDK from day 1 when they released the DR1000 (yes, they did learn) and while some people are working on nice additions and tools, most functionality should still come with the product for pretty much all customers.
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I don't think their expectations are high. They stated throughout that the device was for 'reading' not much more. What they're doing is letting the end user decide what they want beyond that single, and most important function. I, for one, don't want a keyboard, or search or a dictionary. I just want to be able to read a book. The Txtr looks like its going to do that very well.
For me they put a very charming human face to a piece of tech that is leaps and bounds beyond the competition design wise and philosophy wise. Everything about the Txtr makes sense, if I don't want to be tied to their service I don't have to be, if I don't want to have a sim card in there I don't have to, and they're actively negotiating with publishers too -- lest we forget, the UK and Germany combined has a bigger book market than the whole of the US. The UK itself is one of the biggest book markets in the world, so I' m not too woried about content for us Europeans either.
Unlike Obi-Wan-Kenobi, I have a
good feeling about this one.