On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:00:49 -0700 Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > A tablet with Tizen Common would make little sense. There isn't > > > much you can do with Tizen Common except develop more Tizen. > > > People would be a little frustrated that they'd boot their > > > devices to the X checkerboard-and-pointer screen. > > > > > > Also, we don't have a Tablet profile. We could consider it to be > > > "large mobile" but the UX might not be right. More to the point: > > > until one of the Tizen member companies is considering doing a > > > Tizen tablet, there's no point in giving tablets to developers: > > > their designs and solutions would not match the desired device > > > type. > > > > Why couldn't the tablet have the Tizen 3 Gnome UI? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1v56cmzKI > > There's no GNOME UI that we're working on. The community is free to > work on it and provide packages, as well as install it on devices you > can get your hands on, but please don't expect any of the involved > companies to provide you with a device running a UI that is not a > Tizen target. > > That also includes "tablet" at all: no one is working on a tablet (as > far as I know), so don't expect anyone to provide tablets. > > > In regards to a mobile device for developers, why not offer a > > device that is an actual usable phone that developers will use > > daily? It is more likely that a developer will "scratch the itch" > > for a usable device that is in their pocket than they will for a > > device that sits on the shelf. > > I agree. There were reasons for which the previous reference devices > were not full phones -- including lack of FCC certification, for > example. I'm hoping that future devices will be. > > But maybe the next type of reference devices won't be phones at all. > Wouldn't you want to have something that is close to the wearable > profile or to the TV one? Since there's also some emphasis growing on > IoT, maybe the next one will even be headless... > > I don't know yet. I will pass along the suggestions and we'll let you > know soon when new reference devices are available. > This is all just my opinion, so take it with a very large grain of salt. Unless Tizen Mobile is being abandoned, the next reference device should be a functional mobile device that will actually get used on a daily basis. Functional, daily use devices are what keep developers interested and paying attention to a platform. This is probably why Google gives developers functional devices at the Google IO (and quite a few of those devices are from Samsung). _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
