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Originally Posted by HarryT
With all due respect, that is merely an estimate, not a "promise"  . |
I am the last person who would be angry over a delay of a few weeks. Folder support was promised (or "announced" or whatever word they actually used back then) in December 2007 and "estimated" to arrive early 2008. So we are talking over a year here and that's a lot, even for an estimate.
As to the "estimate" vs. "promise": Bookeen is not new to the business (Cybook is their third generation reader) and I think they know that their customers don't care about some mumbojumbo like "but I used the words 'should', 'maybe', 'not entirely impossible that'", if they give out a date the customers will pick that up.
But as I already said in a previous post, they should have just kept silent about what they are working on and when it was due and everyone would be happy...
P.S.: If the delay is really due to the implementation of epub support I am not really happy with the decision.
1) I wonder how they should be able to implement something as big as epub in just 2 months when they cannot implement something as small (just comparing the two, no absolute figures) as folder support in over a year.
2) Epub support is pretty certain to mess a few things up. I am not negative here but every software company introducing a big new features has some nasty bugs in the first release. If I think back to the first firmware release which fixed some minor things, halved battery life and took two more releases to get battery life back to original level, I am not really looking forward to the first release containing epub. I had rather had folder support now and waited for epub a little longer.
3) There will always be one more feature. If you delay a release to include that one feature, too, you will never release. Why not take things slow, release what you have and work on the new stuff afterwards. If you delay a release to include that one more feature you will necessarily have to rush it because that feature will never fit into the original timeline. You have pressure from the people waiting for the "old" features and are therefore likely to not work as thoroughly on the "new" ones. I think nobody would have complained if Bookeen had released folder support and planned epub for late 2009 (I definitely wouldn't, not that I don't like the format - got some books already - but I wasn't expecting it anytime soon, anyway).