I fully expect iRex to pull my most recent post over ther so I'm posting it here too:
http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=473
Quote:
OK it's now the last day in September. Many of us has had our iLiads for month or more (Well I've only had a working one for a month) and still the majority of the functions the iLiad was claimed to support back when you opened ordering have not manifested.
MP3 support
OEB support
21 hours power (or greater than 10,000 pageturns)
Support for certain formats is limited (txt) at best.
The note functions are still not fully in place.
PDF rotate and zoom are still not implemented.
The SDK is still not available.
You have yet to comply with the GPL.
etc etc etc.
And now iRex are actively (though quietly) changing those very specs on their website (Seriously look at the specs listed now and those listed 3-4 months ago) they have changed.
Are people now starting to get the impression that iRex are simply unable to meet the specifications they claimed for the machine when they began to sell it. Is the machine even capable of ever meeting those specs? I'm starting to have my doubts. And if so does it mean that iRex would be liable to the point that they will have to give refunds (certainly that would be the case under UK law)?
To iRex, the early adopters have been your stanch defenders in the past few months, but we are getting seriously <selfcensored> off with the fact that you are still working out what should have been minor kinks. Yes we begged you to release the iLiad early. Yes we agreed to use "Not quite final" software but you have had months to fix these issues. And frankly we have seen little or no improvement on any them (Including power management, yes it's almost doubled, but it's still less than half what was promised).
I know I'm starting to think that I should have waited for the Sony. Even if the specs of the machine arn't as good. Simply because they (on the reports so-far) have managed to produce a product that actually does what they say it will (And some of you know how much I hate Sony, and how galling it is to say that).
So I ask you iLiad owners have we been intentionally misled into buying a product that doesn't and cannot do the job iRex told us it could do?
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And some people think I only ever defend them...