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Originally Posted by Gertjan
During the introduction of DR800, IREX make perfectly clear that this device would target a different user group (lets say the average book reader) than the DR1000 (business professional, power user). This obviously lead to design decisions including user interface and feature set.
We know some of you use the 8" device not only for book reading, and miss features the 10" device carries. Although you could have known they were not part of the product, you can still hope, I know. A few of them are brought back as an advanced option in 2.0 (folder view, scribble and zoom options in PDF), others may follow later.
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Thank you! Gertjan, for such an honest answer!
I will have to say I feel really really sorry about IREX management and marketing. Such good devices since iLiad, to DR800, yet they simply don't know how to marketing and sell them. Wake up guys, I know you have been in this market even longer than Sony, look around the competitors! Granted, you still have a very competitive device, but good marketing and management are the ultimate solution for increasing revenue! Judging from the constant delay and mis-press release, I will say you have an unfortunate marketing and management team, bad PR, bad supply chain management, bad relationship with manufactures, bad marketing, bad develope management. The only good thing: a pretty good develope team, both hardware and software. The SDK decision is probably a
good exception by the management.
Anyway, guys, now the decision for the user is easy. For people who haven't bought it, you have your choices ( a lot! ). For those who want to keep it and make it better, you can either wait (for the official improvement in the future), or do it by yourself. Never ever wish the management change their mind.
There is OpenInkpot for DR1000
http://openinkpot.org/wiki/Device/DR1000, should be easy to support DR800 (quite similar hardware). And we have TechPDF.