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The fact of the matter is that the majority of the features DO work and most of them work well. In the areas where they don't IRex has been pretty forthcoming about.
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Do they?
HTML is still pretty much unusable.
MP3 is non-existant
The wacom touchpad is still uncalibrated and doesn't provide the pressure sensitive functions.
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The information about the ILiad's battery life and it's future capabilities was not 'discovered', IRex told us, and told us why. They have told us what things they think will work to rectify / improve the situation and which ones they are working on internally, and they are the ones who said 'Yep, looks like we won't hit that 21 hour mark'
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After they accidentally put up a webpage stating the specs of the V2 which stated 15. Then when questioned stated that this was only possible with a larger battery.
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At all the points where there was information to share, it seems to me that IRex has done so, including giving estimates of when SDK and other things would be released, and being pretty forthcoming about what has been going on internally with regard to features.
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Err when? Sorry but thats just not the case iRex have still not mentioned when they will provide the promised mp3 support, wacom calibration, etc etc.
Yes the iLiad is a great device. And has huge potential. But iRex's performance as a company has been pretty cruddy.
What has bugged many of the early user's off most is the "This will be done soon" statements which we have been hearing for 6 months or more.
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5) IRex does not have to provide any developer tools whatsoever.
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Err they announced this prior to the sales of the iLiad. So yes they do.
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6) IRex does not have to accept your device back to reflash it if you mess it up.
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They don't they make it a chargable service.
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7) They don't have to tell you anything about how to write software effectively for your ILiad, or how to improve it's performance in any way.
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This is true. And their help to the developers is always appreciated.
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8) They don't have to have a public forum for the users of their product, nor do they have to participate in any forum.
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They only did this after the community complained repeatedly about their previous official policy (which came from the very top we were told) which meant that there was no interaction from iRex other than their announcements.
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9) They don't have to accept / incorporate any community developer ideas into their software.
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Again they promised early on that community projects would be wither be added into their official releases or made so that individual users should choose them for automatic dowload.
Also they would be bloody stupid not to accept free help in developing their device. Thats like someone refusing a handful of free money.