To be honest, while I love my Cybook to bits, but this new firmware is a bit of a joke.
I am a programmer myself, and there is nothing in the new feature list that would take any real length of time to complete, the only major change is the parallel version containing Epub, and I cant see why even a single part time programmer would not have this completed after a year.
Sometimes deadlines are not met, unexpected issues and bugs can crop up that can slow or halt progress, but not by this much.
For some reason I find myself visualising Bookeen as a single person working from his garden shed, answering the phone, replying to the odd email, preparing orders, working on other projects, such as the opus, and when he gets a spare few minutes, he will have a look at the firmware or other apparently low priority tasks such as updating the blog and website.
I am also disappointed about the fact that a working Mobipocket version of the firmware has been available for some time now, and despite the fact that all of Bookeens oldest Cybook customers may have benefited from this, they have not seen fit to release the firmware. Epub is all well and good, but if the Mobipocket firmware works then why not release it.
It is strange how this has effected my thoughts of Bookeen, if they had never promised a firmware then I would never have had an issue, but from a marketing point of view this firmware has likely done more damage than if they had not bothered at all. To give a customer an expectation of something, then keep delaying it is just taking away from a great product.
"Expectation postponed is making the heart sick" (Proverbs 13:12)
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