On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
I would only rise couple of points here: Scrolling is not optimized at the maximum. Look at ipod or nintendo DS, they do *discrete* scrolling and it is amazingly fast. They dont do kinetics, or pixel perfect scrolling like iphone. Also on a side note if the content is a bit bigger, the scrolling is exponentially slows down... > but.. if i were smart.. i'd not develop apps for the freerunner. it's a "dead > product". it has no more being produced. it has no evolution path. there won't > be a gtao3, 04, 05 etc. everyone quit or was fired/let go from om that worked > on phones.. or worked on pretty much anything. your future is other devices.. Lets count the elementary apps here. How many of them written for the Freerunner? Sad true: almost all usable elementary app are written for the Freerunner. Where are the other "future" devices to developing for? There is none. Maybe Palm Pre reverse engineering will change things a little, but its only a hope right now. (and also a dead-end, as the Palm Pixi is a no-go, and probably the future devices will be also) So fixing some annoying things because of the Freerunners actually makes sense, as we are a huge e userbase with a couple of *usable* real world apps. Not demos;-) In my personal view, even the Freerunner would be 10 times better hardware-wise, would not change to many things. As the lowlevel apps is getting in usable shape just now. I can use my phone like a month *reliably* thanks to frameworkd. I think in a year or so we will grow out the Freerunner. But until then there is a lot of small usable apps to write!;-) Best regards, Laszlo ps: Im still figthing with the bad audio experience after 7(!) months... Yeah, the Freerunner could be better. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
