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:) 2013/12/31 Gerald Coley <[email protected]> > 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. > -- 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.
