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Originally Posted by nboshart
"When it arrives" being the emphasis there. It's been what, a year since they've promised release? I remember heavy speculation the QUE would be out soon at BookNet Tech Forum 2009. And next month Mirasol will have a partner too, right?
I think iRex is starting a soon-to-be-popular trend in ereading devices: bankruptcy. How many of these things can there be?
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With an estimated 13 million e-ink devices to be sold this year, there is enough room for quite a few players. Irex simply had the wrong pricing and marketing strategies and didn't focus enough on cutting costs. (Just imagine, an aggressively priced DR1000S a year ago -- at that time USD $5-600 would have been low enough -- and they would have swamped the market!) So when Amazon and Sony attacked on their home market they were dead in the water.