On Aug 6, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Jonathon Suggs wrote:
I for one am glad that I did not purchase the GTA01. The entire process (at least from what I have read) has been at best a complete disaster, and it still isn't over or even getting better.
Now thats just going too far. It is not a complete disaster, nor would I consider it a disaster at all: The whole order of initial developer-focused product has been *sold out*. Do you have no idea what that means?
Certainly, it is encouraging, and nowhere near disaster. Lucky developers out there right now are getting their code on; just because you aren't (yet) able to do so for physical hardware just means the game is, quite seriously, on.
Sorry for the rant again but just thought it needed to be said.
Your rant is misplaced in my opinion. GTA01's have been delivered to hundreds, if not thousands of geeks around the planet who eagerly awaited their arrival, and many (myself included) still do check the mailbox daily, in eager anticipation of getting on with some seriously fun hacking. I predict a worthy app-sphere for the GTA02 delivery, as a result, and certainly: the GTA02 horizon is where the focus should be, frankly, for all avid hackers and coders currently wetting at the jaw for something fun to carry their works around in ..
I think you, personally, Jonathon Suggs, are just simply complaining too much, when there is in fact a grand deal of positive activity occurring on the entire Moko project, which stands to make rather nice headway in the opensource hardware realm; a realm which, frankly, has new rules worth applying enthusiastically. OpenMoko is a -startup- for this activity; rapid growth pains most certainly can be disastrous, but in this case are worth bearing by all and sundry interested in the future of portable, pocketable, Linux-based communications devices.
If the GTA01's are all sold out, more the merrier for the 02's, which are positively the developer-user step up they ought to be. I hope for sure that while there are a few thousand 01 hackers around, the 02 crowd numbers in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands.
So .. If you don't have your OpenMoko yet, well don't kid yourself. You probably came late to the party. This is no reason to start pissing in the punch.
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