On 26/07/12 16:28, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
"Ron K. Jeffries" <[email protected]> writes:
Sebastian,
It was a joke, obviously.
Significantly raising prices is unusual in this business.
Time will tell whether it was a Good Idea.
Ben Nanonote sold slowly at $99 (qty 1,300 over approx. two years) and
Milkymist sold under
about 100 units over a year at the lower prices.
I am having some fun with my $35 Raspberry Pi.
They are now producing about 4000 a week.
I realize it does not meet the requirements of open hardware.
Still, I'd buy one of those--if it came with a battery, display, and input;
and a convenient case so that I could carry it in my pocket.
Possibly more interesting (to me) is this emerging "computer on a
[USB] stick" that use the Allwinner A10 SOC. They mainly come with
Android (meh...) but most also have a Linux port.
I've been watching those, too; but I still don't understand them--
I just don't even see how to use them: how do they interface
with the user?
Chinese tablets in 7-in. size are approaching $100-$125. Specs are not
killer, but will be IMO very useful as a small portable computer.
You must have bigger pockets than I do.
Try as I might, I just can't abide by cargo pants...,
so miniturisation has value :)
I purchase stuff that solves a problem for me.
Don't we all? ;)
On that note, I'm somewhat surprised that I didn't
see even a single response to my post on this topic
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.qi.general/698>:
... speaking as a contributing member of the FOSS community:
the best way to turn me into a contributing developer for you project
is for you to make your project almost solve a problem that I have.
So maybe a good question to ask is: what problems can Ben Nanonote
almost-solve, and for which hackers can it almost-solve them?
I would have thought that `what problems can we almost solve'
would be a pretty ripe brainstorming-topic....
Personal Pocket computer. That's a big problem for me. Geeks Phone
Zero/Citizen Surveillance Device was a mistake. I am disappointed with
android too. Hate some of there choices. Like no menu categories,
rubbish audio recording. A nice command on a nano note, I expect can do
better,easier audio recording than a flipping 700MHz CPU, 128MB ram
Citizen Surveillance Device!
Can the NN cope with monitoring the mic for a clap or two so one can
have clap to stop/pause/play audio recording/playing?
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