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Originally Posted by scotty1024
The really sad part is we'll get these things working just in time for them to be obsoleted by the replacement units. Which may be why iRex is giving up on so many features and being so close mouthed. The iLiad was a big learning experience and the iLiad 2 will fix everything they botched on the iLiad?
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This is one of the main reasons I haven't bought one yet. Anyone remember the original Newton 100 line? Nice idea, not quite there yet... completely obsoleted by the 2000 line. I still have my MessagePad 2100, and it still works (on ordinary AA batteries, yet). But Apple didn't continue with the product, never got the connectivity really working, there were very few apps for the Newton, etc. And then Apple decided not to bother with it any more. I stopped being an Apple user at that point and didn't come back until they switched their main OS to unix-- that was too attractive after all the stupid PC problems I'd been having.
Argue all you like that the iLiad is merely an eBook reader and shouldn't have to support all these other functions (drawing, HWR, web browsing, RSS feeds...). For the price they want, it had better be able to do more than just display PDFs. I think Scotty1024 sees that. I wonder if iRex does?