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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Welcome to the internet, RobertB, where steel skin is mandatory.
It generally helps to know when to tune out the unreasonables.
Just don't judge everybody by the few, okay?
Interesting bit of info on the nuts-n-bolts of dealing with clueless corporate types. (Because, of course, B&N knows so much about software licensing they can overide the eReader guys, right?  )
On the ADE front I am not a fan of ADE in any shape or form but I do see the short-term business need for your readers to sport it. I would respectfully suggest keeping eReader in the pipeline as an option; it may be necessary for survival. And even then, your guys should keep the toes in the water with other alternatives. (I'm sorry, but what I've seen mobile ADE do to some innocent rtf files shouldn't happen to a hash file...)
Anyway, counting to ten and going for a walk generally helps keep my blood pressure down.  |
Dear fjtorres:
I know and agree. It is just really too much to see one of my devices called vaporware. To me, vaporware is something that is NOT real and the Pocket PRO certainly is real.
In hindsight, I should have never given out information at all on the device until it was ready to ship. But, that is the entire idea of being on here... talking with people, getting their feedback and telling them what we are doing and what is planned. People just somehow seem to think that they are OWED a device on exactly the date that I say it will be coming with complete disregard that there are always problems that pop up and must be dealt with.
AND... I am under NDA with Fictionwise and the factories. That means I cannot post the problems that come with trying to get a format. People assume that you somehow magically get it. Reality is THEY have to make an SDK and it has to be ported in by our factory. That has very little to do with me. Fictionwise will finish it when they get it done. We will then port it IF we can reach agreement on the contract. I concur that a LOT of people, including me, want eReader... and we fully intend to have it.