On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:54:35 +0000 Wolfgang Spraul <wolfg...@sharism.cc> said:
> raster, > > > may be waiting forever. if it does happen you'll find yourself comparing to > > "iphone 4g" or "nexus 2" or whatever is now out in the 95% of the market. > > and then crying why it sucks so much in comparison. that was already the > > case for freerunner. like it or not there is an expectation of at least > > being in the same ballpark - and as such the big-boys ballpark keeps > > drifting further away from the "open" one. i think it's better to make the > > big ballpark have more > > I do think there is a 3rd way. The gigahertz/gigabyte race is not the only > race in town. Let them have it. > A product that just works very well always has a chance. Usability race. Put > people and their real needs and real ability to understand and use products > in the center. Don't give a damn if everybody around you goes from 2GHz to > 3GHz. Again, no hard feelings, let them have it their way. > > But there is room for slow made (but still high-tech) products. Product > cycles that are so long that they allow real feedback to trickle back from > users to creators. What we have now is that most feedback is ignored because > by the time it reaches the creators, they are already 2 generations ahead. > > Plus I have to say - the industry is turning into a produce trash throw-away > trash industry so fast I couldn't even imagine. > Even I gave in now: When I shop for a DVD player, I buy the cheapest. > Absolutely the cheapest. No prisoners taken. > Inevitably, some X months later, I run into the first (officially bought) DVD > with latest-and-greatest DRM tricks on it that won't play. Now I throw away my > player and get a new one (of course cheapest again). > This system works quite well. > But it's insane! > > The phone industry is cranking out 1+ billion phones a year. > Very soon they need to increase the crappiness and "won't fix" features in > their products so they have a chance to sell the billions more already in the > pipeline. > There definitely is another way. Must be. Business opportunity! > Let's see how long people will be using their FreeRunners, and how long > they will be using their N900... If the FreeRunner would be bug free, I'm > sure people would still use them in 10+ years, easily. > > Way to go gta02-core, and way to go osmocom! > Wolfgang aaah - the race to the bottom. indeed. thats one way - but that kind of solves itself - whatever the smartphones used 3-4 years ago now is cheap as chips. also remember - dvds havent changed. its the same requirement as when they came out. phones and pc's are in a different world - well if the phone does more than just make calls. they have to deal with apps.. and worse - the internet. the web. and that evolves and changes every day - needing more and more resources on your "interface to the internude". were it to be like dvd's where the requirements dont change... it'd get awesomely cheap - but luckily for the hw industry.. thats not the case... so they get to sell u faster/bigger/better.. just to keep up with "the internet" how it is now. :) let's see - if things get smaller/faster/more efficient web etc. wise.. this may change - but i dont see that happening any time soon. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community