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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Have you ever programed on an e-reader ?
Do you know how things works at bookeen ?
Nope. You can't judge something unless you have all the facts.
Yes, there was some serious screw up. I'll have to wait a bit for firmware, so what ? Not the end of the world.
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Please, don't get so excited. Your arguments start to lose the connection to the factual world....
1) You have not programmed an e-reader yourself. So you don't know any more about how hard it is as we do. So if you tell other people they must not have an opinion because they haven't done it themselves the same goes for you. How come *you* can say it is hard work if you don't allow other people to voice their opinion.
2) Even if I have not built a house I can judge a few things because I know the process and requirements for some of the work involved. Even someone who has not every last piece of information can have a learned opinion of a situation. There is a whole industry of people who call themselves "consultants" who have not every last scrap of information about what's going on in a company and have not been working there for years, yet they can still provide accurate and valuable suggestions to improve processes in that company.
3) If you want to share some facts about the work within Bookeen or shed some light on the details of why there was such a delay you are very welcome to share them with us. But unless you have some actual information you have to accept that whatever you think is happening at Bookeen is just speculation and therefore not in the least better than any other opinion voiced here. So if you believe that Bookeen is doing it right and their decisions are all the best and it's just a long chain of bad luck which they can't do anything against, then you are very welcome to stick to that belief. But that gives you no right to criticize the opinions of some people here who have experience with programming and project management without giving any factual reason except that you "don't believe Bookeen would do that just for fun"
4) You confuse two different things: programming and project management. Programming is not easy and there are always things going wrong when you least expect it. A project manager knows that and accounts for that (at least as much as he/she is allowed to by the management). Bookeen has been talking about folder view since end of 2007. There have been a few comments that they are working on it since early 2008 and there has been a definite dead line "beginning of 2009". If half a year later there is still nothing to show for it - not even a new date - there is no excuse whatsoever for it, it's just lousy planning (mind you: I say lousy planning, not lousy programming). I am not a really good programmer myself but doing a folder view is not quantum physics and if their people can't do it they can hire someon who can or tell their customers that they had to quit trying to do a new FW for this or that reason.
As far as I am concerned they don't need to put out a new FW, I can live with what I have. But what they are doing is still a gargantuan blunder which is a shame for any company, big or small.
5) I think I have to remind you that you went and got the new FW at the Paris meeting and have been moaning quite a bit lately about how much you want the new FW to arrive. If you were as patient as you claim to be then you would have stuck to the old FW and waited it out like the rest of us.
Apart from that I have to state that I like French wine, cheese, landscape and not the least the people but I still couldn't help but chuckle at the jokes. What was absolutely hillarious, though, was the response "if Napolean ever needed a reason to invade Austria"... THAT really made my day. It's just friendly fun, no reason to feel aggravated...