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Originally Posted by cmdahler
The first thought that occurs to me is that this is simply one more indicator of the chaotic and undisciplined corporate culture at this company. It's almost as if you had a couple of programmers over in one room working on the DR1000S, and then when the company came up with the DR800 idea, they took another couple of programmers and told them to write the software for it, and it simply never occurred to anyone to have the two teams of programmers work together to build on a common software engineering architecture.
It's like the omission of the dictionary: I mean, really, how hard could it possibly be to write a simple dictionary lookup and display interface? What would something like that take a reasonably talented and experienced programmer? Maybe a few hours for the rough code and a day or two to polish it up? Yet they couldn't manage to get even this simple functionality finished in time for a 3-month-late release?
And jumping to a specific page number? Good God, a high-school kid could bang out about 10 lines of C code to make that work before he finished breakfast. It's just weird not to have that available.
All of this plus things like leaving out the rather basic idea of a folder-style organizational capability for a device that is intended to store hundreds or thousands of items just points to the fact that no one up there at iRex actually sits down to think and plan things out - everything starts with a great idea, and then they just seem to randomly cobble a chaotic mess of modules together to make the idea work and get it out the door. Then they spend a year or two trying to patch up that mess, until the next great idea comes down and they basically abandon everything that came before.
An odd company. I would love to see what a disciplined, organized company such as Apple could do with the starting-point design of the DR800. I'm sure the finished product would be an unbelievable reader. (Don't read that wrong, I'm not plugging for their forthcoming tablet - that'll be LCD based, and I'm not interested in reading books on a LCD screen at all).
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Apple??? Really????????
It took them about 1 year to implement "copy and paste" in their so called "business phone"....
But Apple definitely has great marketing.