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pdam · 10-11-2006, 01:29 PM

Personally I am perplexed at the current Development roadmap for the Iliad.

Given the Sony device is now on the market with lots of content and loads of marketting spend behind it ... and given that, other than the obvious size difference and the ability to write notes (but hey a notebook costs $2!), the current Iliad software implementation doesn't do much more than the Sony - why aren't iRex concentrating on the features that will differenciate and show a value difference - like annotation, bookmarking, website interaction / form filling through the use of the Wacom pen etc?

It seems odd that these differentiators are not the focus of development (to me at least).

10-11-2006, 01:29 PM	#1
pdam Groupie Posts: 199 Karma: 100 Join Date: Aug 2006 Device: iLiad, iPaq, Psion5&7, Blackberry	Why doesn't the Iliad play to it's strengths? Personally I am perplexed at the current Development roadmap for the Iliad. Given the Sony device is now on the market with lots of content and loads of marketting spend behind it ... and given that, other than the obvious size difference and the ability to write notes (but hey a notebook costs $2!), the current Iliad software implementation doesn't do much more than the Sony - why aren't iRex concentrating on the features that will differenciate and show a value difference - like annotation, bookmarking, website interaction / form filling through the use of the Wacom pen etc? It seems odd that these differentiators are not the focus of development (to me at least).