Jay Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As much as I love my FR, I must admit that the whole experience had >> me thinking lustful thoughts about my wife's iPhone... > > > I would say just get an iPhone. I did. Its much more fun to develop > for a *platform* rather than a constant dogs-breakfast of disaster. > Until someone in the Freerunner world turns the thing into a stable > platform, its just going to go on and on forever with nothing ever > being fixed, stably, and dependably. > > I mean, give me a break. Its October, and people are *still* > wrestling with WLAN configuration. Can you hackers not see how stupid > it is to be fussing with 'pretty stuff' when the most basic things > don't even work? > > I've given up on Freerunner development. Until there is a stable > image that provides an Operating System (what we have now: Inoperable) > its just not worth the fuss. The Freerunner project has been > murdered, in my opinion, by hobby horsing hackers who have nothing but > hatred for the end users that *could* be using the thing.
Just to add some perspective, for my intended applications the iPh*ne is not an option. On the other hand, any suitable open handheld gnu/linux device with gps and phone hardware would work. If competing hardware forfilling these requirements showed up, I could easily switch hardware. > ; > -- > Jay Vaughan -- Joakim Verona _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community