I designed the BBB. Other people design the capes. No capes come from BeagleBoard.org. So feel free to rant, but facts do have a place in rants.
Gerald On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Terry Storm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi William > > As I said, I have no problem with the BBB hardware. > I am 100% referring to the software. If the software sucks then to the > average Joe Bloggs the hardware then also, well, sucks. > If Joe Bloggs buys a BBB and a cape made by the same company, and there is > a recommended software to go with it which claims compatibility, then Joe > Bloggs would rightly expect that the BBB + CAPE + OS will run as > advertised, and this isnt the case. > > I personally am using but a fraction of what the BBB is capable of doing, > however I wouldn't have thought using a BBB made by CircuitCo and a LCD > Cape made by CircuitCo, running the recommended OS with everything as > default, and finding that the touch does not work and things like the mouse > pointer jumps all over the screen, kinda not fit for purpose? > > If someone like me buys a BBB + Cape and uses an OS which is recommended > and claims compatibility, and finds that it doesn't work for something as > fundamental as the touch screen, is that classed as user error? > > I personally think not. > > I stand by my comment of it being a flop, as if the company does not make > a profit after selling 100K of a popular product, then really... what was > the point. > And in terms of sales and people not being able to get stock, you have to > start to wonder how many of those are from users reading the marketting and > thinking that will be great, to find when they get it they have no idea how > to fix problems they encounter (like me) and so cannot use it as they > wanted to. > > Many of the happy people probably dont use Capes as you said. It just > sucks that the people who designed the cape also design the BBB, and they > dont work right purely due to the Software. BBB + LCD Cape on Android works > fine, so the hardware is perfectly fine, but Android is of no use to many > so it doesnt help much. > > Terry > > > On Tuesday, 31 December 2013 14:07:17 UTC+13, William Hermans wrote: >> >> Terry, >> >> I do realize you're mostly aiming your comments at Gerald but let me just >> say that I think you missed a few key points. >> >> 1) This is not a Dell or common general purpose PC. So you can not expect >> the same from such hardware. With that said, there is nothing wrong with >> the hardware. It all works fine, and actually up until recently the only >> thing that did not work was the SGX/DRM video drivers. Now, that has been >> resolved, but still in alpha / beta stage ( ish ). Different people seem >> to have experienced different problems here and there, but think this is >> very likely mostly user error. >> >> 2) Do you understand the idea of open source hardware ? *.org is usually >> and possibly always non profit domain name affiliation. What Gerald and his >> partners have planned I have no idea, but in my own mind the Beaglebone >> black is far from a flop. Quite the opposite actually when electronics >> retailers can hardly seem to keep them in stock, because they sell so fast. >> >> 3) If you can pick up a book, or read web pages you can do this yourself. >> Many in this group will help, even me, when you have a reasonable question >> to ask. >> >> Anyways it really suck that this does not seem to be working for you. >> Just now that many of of are perfectly happy with these little boards. Heck >> there are a few people who own ten's and possibly even hundred's of these >> very boards . . . >> >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
