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Originally Posted by ali
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I always have the impression that there are two communities in this forum: One is people who just want to read books. This is the group who replies "i love the device, it does all i want" in all the iRex-bashing threads. {snip}
And there's the OS-affine geek community, who are complaining all the time in this forum. This second community is large, much larger than the first. iRex would have needed to make the Iliad the ideal toy for that group, and they failed. {and yet another snip}
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If I buy a car I want it to drive me from A to B in relative comfort without depleting my countries oil reserve.
(It should also have one of those little cardboard trees hanging from the mirror with pine scent)
I couldn't care less if the engine is a high-tech piece of equipment, a little dwarf paddling his legs out or a magical ring with elvish inscription.
Yep, I am part of that first group!
I can imagine that the car manufacturer wants to sell his cars to stupid people like me.
He loves me.
Simply because there are more of me than there are of the smart type that immediately starts to fiddle with all kinds of tools to improve performance with the risk of driving very fast with one wheel coming unstuck.
The Iliad is and never was intended solely for the purpose of satisfying the tweek, fiddle and upgrade itches that the techie types constantly seem to suffer from.
It was meant for the simple dolts like me who are impressed with their own abillity to form letters into -sometimes intelligu intelligla..intelligalbl- into words.
It may be true that the geek section of this forum is much larger that the dolt section, but I very much doubt this to be true for all the buyers from Irex.
The Iliad has always been advertised as an ebook reader, not a gamesconsole, pda or coffee making machine.
Now, I have seen some of the work the geeks have done for the dolts on the Iliad.
It was mostly about as user friendly as a head-on collision with a Sherman tank
for little ol'e simpletons like me.
I don't think Irex should have taken extra care to make the Iliad an ongoing project for the the geeks.
It should also not have taken four tries to get a good working Iliad to Scotty but sometimes shit just happens and especially so with new hightech stuff like this.
The procedure for returning a dud is not an easy one.
But then again I didn't find it more difficult when my Iliad started to talk back to me and finally stopped working then what I have encountered with other products .
No-one likes a DOA unit, definitely not three.
I am sure however that Irex's return policy is as good as any other.
Scotty, I am very sorry you had a bad experience with the Iliad.
And you certainly were the king of the geeks
as far as I am concerned.
I guess you'll be back someday because no geek can stay away from the real challenges.
