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Originally Posted by Snappy!
Just a thought ... this thread is like quite off-topic by now. Maybe we should come back to why, or why else you think iLiad will fail. We all know DRM is a *potential* show-stopper, so what else?
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Mainly I think the price is too high, especially for existing functionality. But I don't regard the iLiad as a failure-- just as a prototype, not a successful production model.
At some point iRex will need to decide if they want to pursue the eBook reader market, the "
info pad" market, the tablet market, the linux geek hobbyist market, or *only* the vertical B2B market, and adjust pricing (and hardware costs) accordingly. Right now they're charging full laptop prices for a relatively weak eBook reader and interesting (though frustrating) hobbyist toy. Presumably the pilots using it for FlyBook are getting better value for the money than the eBook customers. But I think there are a lot more potential eBook customers than pilots. iRex needs to decide which customers they want to try to serve, and consider if they need alternate hardware models (and potentially, software services) to be successful.