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Originally Posted by anansi
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However if you do choose to make them accountable for their actions you can rest assured that most likely Phillips will step in and sort out their spinoff, hopefully (and more probably) by sacking the entire marketing department wich is mortlikely responsable for all of this, thus ensuring that the compentent engineers that remain are more capable of carrying out their work and in the long term producing superior products, instead of carrying on this kind of fradulent behaviour.
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Nah, I don't think so.
Irex is a spinoff from Philips but only as an independent firm that pays a small percentage per sold unit, or something like that.
It is a bunch of techies from R & D gone solo (or "rogue" if you will), is my guess.
So don't expect any help from Philips.
As for the fraudulent behaviour, I think you would have to prove malicious intent (is that how you write it?) instead of just plain stupidity.
Then again, I am no lawyer so what do I know?
So far, my personal verdict is still on the plain stupidity side of things.
To rule out one of two mayor selling points of e-ink technology in your product -clear display and suspend but keep image- must have had a reason.
Irex so far have been reluctant to reveal that reason.
But as I have read in another post, "if even cellphones with wifi, gps and whatnots are able to suspend for a batterylife of up to one week or more with old-school lcd tecno, why in the name of Gutenburg is Irex unable to do the same or better with its e-ink technology?