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silv · 10-01-2010, 08:26 AM

You are right apple, one reason might be because iriver readers has a low market penetration in USA. They strategically avoid over competitive dominated Kindle markets, that's why they shipped the readers to Europe first and later to USA. Another factor might be that every reader is different and the cycle for new generations is high, which is why it usually takes a 3rd generation where most user demands are met before the coder community takes up the step to hack it. I'm merely advertising this point as I think there is a simple lack of coverage about iRiver products and the fact that the firmware is 100% opensource is not well known to most coders. So until a messiah appears we have to spread the world that this is the only real open source reader out there!

1st gen was too slow and heavy and now wifi connectivity

2nd gen has a touchlayer on top

3rd gen will probably have wifi, wacom and high contrast pearl or vizplex screens

10-01-2010, 08:26 AM	#8
silv Member Posts: 10 Karma: 172 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: iRiver Cover Story & Cybook Gen3	You are right apple, one reason might be because iriver readers has a low market penetration in USA. They strategically avoid over competitive dominated Kindle markets, that's why they shipped the readers to Europe first and later to USA. Another factor might be that every reader is different and the cycle for new generations is high, which is why it usually takes a 3rd generation where most user demands are met before the coder community takes up the step to hack it. I'm merely advertising this point as I think there is a simple lack of coverage about iRiver products and the fact that the firmware is 100% opensource is not well known to most coders. So until a messiah appears we have to spread the world that this is the only real open source reader out there! 1st gen was too slow and heavy and now wifi connectivity 2nd gen has a touchlayer on top 3rd gen will probably have wifi, wacom and high contrast pearl or vizplex screens Last edited by silv; 10-01-2010 at 08:29 AM.