Dual firmware announcement

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by K-Thom

He never stated Bookeen would be a part of that future ...

If he's not careful Bookeen will be part of our past ....

[EowynCarter]

Instead of motivating and pep-talking his development-team (he probably IS the development team ) to work overnight to satisfy Bookeen's customers and give them the firmware update they so desperately want, he goes around chitchatting about ereaders and their future

To every one's his job

Would you like your boss telling you to work overnight ? Probably not, unless you're mental. Then why are are you excepting others to do something you wouldn't ?
Plus, a tired developer breaks stuff more often then fixing it.

[ErwinOtten]

Originally Posted by K-Thom

Which one do you mean - the one we're waiting for or the one not even the most suicidal bookmaker would take any bets on?

Why on earth are you thinking there will ever be another firmware version for the Gen3 after the forthcoming one ???????

Are you that naive?

[K-Thom]

No, but according to the Chaos theory even the press of a page turn-buttton may cause a new firmware update.

[Truttebol]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

To every one's his job

Would you like your boss telling you to work overnight ? Probably not, unless you're mental. Then why are are you excepting others to do something you wouldn't ?
Plus, a tired developer breaks stuff more often then fixing it.

Dear Eowyn,

I really am under the impression that you are the marketing-director or something at Bookeen, even if you say you are not. And you are here to do some damage-controle. Please tell them to hurry up!

But, anyway... My boss WILL tell me to work overnight if he runs the risk of losing customers by not giving them the service they expect and should get. Although this hardly ever happens since we use hard deadlines so our customers know when to expect their promised software. Besides that, good planning makes overhours unnecessary.

I actually am looking for another ereader to buy from the bonus I received (we deliver updates on time and not "soon" or "anywhere in the near future" so I still get bonusses ).

Various new devices (3G, WIFI, more gray-scales, ePub support, etc) will be available from october 12th on . This does not mean I will buy one immediately but a replacement will be bought anyhow before the end of 2010 and that probably will not be a Bookeen-device, sorry. My husband will get my Gen3 then so let's hope for his sake that "soon" does not mean Q4 2010.

[Krystian Galaj]

Originally Posted by ErwinOtten

Why on earth are you thinking there will ever be another firmware version for the Gen3 after the forthcoming one ???????

Are you that naive?

Why do you think there is anything forthcoming?

[Snuffi]

Originally Posted by Truttebol

Various new devices (3G, WIFI, more gray-scales, ePub support, etc) will be available from october 12th on . This does not mean I will buy one immediately but a replacement will be bought anyhow before the end of 2010 and that probably will not be a Bookeen-device, sorry. My husband will get my Gen3 then so let's hope for his sake that "soon" does not mean Q4 2010.

Why would you think it's 2010? They clearly said "soon" which amounts to something like "this century, give or take a few" and nothing as specific as "next year".
I wonder if anyone still knows that archaic and out-dated format they used to call "ePub" when they release the FW. And what was DRM, again?

[EowynCarter]

I really am under the impression that you are the marketing-director or something at Bookeen, even if you say you are not. And you are here to do some damage-controle. Please tell them to hurry up!

Nope, i'm not working at bookeen.

But, anyway... My boss WILL tell me to work overnight if he runs the risk of losing customers by not giving them the service they expect and should get. Although this hardly ever happens since we use hard deadlines so our customers know when to expect their promised software. Besides that, good planning makes overhours unnecessary.

Given the delay, it's more that one night they would need to work. And my boss would sure get no as an answer to working at night (I'm a day person, i can't do ANYTHING at night.). Tough I'll probably be up for a few week ends...

[Snuffi]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Given the delay, it's more that one night they would need to work. And my boss would sure get no as an answer to working at night (I'm a day person, i can't do ANYTHING at night.). Tough I'll probably be up for a few week ends...

Given the delay we can be pretty sure that it is not a case of some (or one or whatever) programmers being late on their work. If you miss a deadline by more than half a year that means one of two things:
1) Your boss is the one who told you to drop that project and do something more important instead
2) you have lost your job as no boss on earth would accept "Sorry boss, I know I am months overdue with my work but I still haven't even the faintest idea when (if ever) I will get it done"

I am 99.99999% sure that it's not the programmers' fault but was a management decision to push back the update. So it's not so much a case of getting in a few extra hours for the programmers but for their boss to assign enough % of their time to that update project so they can finally get it finished...

[Truttebol]

Originally Posted by Snuffi

Why would you think it's 2010? They clearly said "soon" which amounts to something like "this century, give or take a few" and nothing as specific as "next year".
I wonder if anyone still knows that archaic and out-dated format they used to call "ePub" when they release the FW. And what was DRM, again?

Oh, you´re right. I was being my usual optimistic self....


At this thread Lake Person tells they are having computer problems after a move to another building.

Let´s hope the computers will be back in working order soon.

[GeoffC]

the word "optimism" and this thread seem mighty incongruous .....

[Olympus]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I understand that the Jinke devices have a "books I've most recently opened" pseudo-folder in their library view. That sounds like an extremely useful feature that I wish other manufacturers would adopt. It would be easy enough, one would have thought, for Bookeen to add a "sort by most recently opened" view to the library.

I totally agree - I had an e-bookreader that would just open with the "book" opened on the "page" where you shut it down.

Let's send in an Request for Change before they release the next Firmware - hope they find some time to implement this suggestion

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Olympus

I totally agree - I had an e-bookreader that would just open with the "book" opened on the "page" where you shut it down.

Let's send in an Request for Change before they release the next Firmware - hope they find some time to implement this suggestion

see my post - above ......

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Nope, i'm not working at bookeen.


Given the delay, it's more that one night they would need to work. And my boss would sure get no as an answer to working at night (I'm a day person, i can't do ANYTHING at night.). Tough I'll probably be up for a few week ends...

Sure. You're right. However, they 'previewed' it - and made all who attended "alpha testers" - on July 4th. It's now October 8th. That means their problems are MAJOR! Perhaps all of you who were exposed to the problems should be compensated by being given, that's right, GIVEN a free Opus for your suffering.

Derek

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by delphidb96

Sure. You're right. However, they 'previewed' it - and made all who attended "alpha testers" - on July 4th. It's now October 8th. That means their problems are MAJOR! Perhaps all of you who were exposed to the problems should be compensated by being given, that's right, GIVEN a free Opus for your suffering.

Derek

Bookeen have told me that if I care to return my device to them, they will happily reflash it and return it to me. ie, the "factory format" versions of this firmware exist; it's the "reflash" versions that seem to be having major issues.