Thanks for churning up these interesting comments, Paul. It’s extremely sad that after all these years with all our technological advancements and choice of free software projects, getting the very basic task – solid and reliable phone calls with tolerable audio quality and battery life – right, still seems to be unachieved.
As much as I love hacking middleware and user interfaces, I never got the hang out of kernel and/or hardware programming. Even back in the Openmoko days, I always had the feeling that the kernel and userland people did not work together close enough. There were certainly people missing who had a holistic approach, trying to work across the stack to provide an optimal user experience. I always thought this would mainly be a problem with our chaotic community-based self-organized structures, but not with corporate ones… That said, if the hardware and the kernel does not provide a certain quality, you can only do so much in userland. And it looks to me like the problem is still mainly that. :M: _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
