Peter Rasmussen schrieb: > My Neo1973 was from one of the first, if not the first batch sent out to > regular people and nobody was more excited about OpenMoko than I. Sean > probably doesn't remember it, but if he has saved his mails, he'll have > the mail trail. > > 1.The Neo1973, the GTA01, was promoted as the final developer's version > of a platform that would be the open source version of iPhone. When it > shipped, it couldn't even boot the image it was shipped with!?! > 2.The follow up to the Neo1973, then just known as the GTA02 was > supposed to be a general available phone for the masses, in September 2006. > 3.Let me repeat that: The GTA02 was supposed to be a general available > phone for the masses, in September 2006! True! I second your impression, that this twist was not communicated in a upright manner. > 6.The OpenMoko camp failed miserably in many ways, of which the most > obvious, as is unfortunately the usual scene, the management failed to > understand their task. > 7.If the GTA0? was to be a developer's platform, then why wasn't it > developed as such? > 7.A A developer's platform will contain elements as 'focus on making > it easy to produce an environment to develop the kernel and platform > software' > 7.B A developer's platform will produce easy communication between > *all* developers and not just the primadonnas that are good enough to > make *something work, *but apparently not to talk with the lesser able > in order to make a whole team work for the whole. > This is not fair. The number of developers of OM is marginal compared to those at proprietary vendors. > So, if the OpenMoko team at FIC is serious about supporting the > community, please communicate it much more clearly, and don't think you > have the backing the size of the Linux kernel! > > You see, apparently you haven't been able to after now several years, > create an image on the Neo 1973 that will not run out of juice even when > apparently shut off, after 12 hours. > True, but GTA01 was never advertised as anything else but a developers platform, even in Openmoko wording. > Then, you are apparently trying to develop this device to the whole > world, but aren't able to, after more than a year able to produce > support for anything else than the US ASCII character set when writing > SMS. And FIC being in a Chinese country that actually needs double byte > character sets, I am amazed that it wasn't in the first image! > I think I understand where you getting at. Currently the focus has to be reliability. But I believe those things will be a topic, as soon as there's is a basic "default" PIM suite for Openmoko, the concept of which has been changing so many times and will hopefully have a happy end in paroli.
And, it is important for Openmoko to have that "default" PIM suite to be a fully functional basic phone stack. So many potential future killer applications need to base on a solid PIM software concept with all that goes along with it: Storage. Search, Synchronization. > So, the whole situation reeks of a top management problem to recognize > the issues of making a platform that has the basic problems at issue, > instead of letting everyone on the FIC/OpenMoko payroll know that > producing a working platform for everyone else is important. > > Sean Moss-Pultz hasn't done his job. > That again is not fair. There have been decisions not quite transparent to the community and there have been communication flaws. But I am happy about the core decisions, because they preserve the open nature of the OM stack not forcing anybody into anything. There's X, there's Linux, there's GTK, there's EFL ... . > My Neo1973 looks more an more like a door stop, and my friends with > iPhones, HTC Touch and such understands my original excitement less and > less! > Fortunately I was aware of that option in the moment I bought my GTA01 (Mid 2007). Possibly it will give a decent touch screen gui for my heating control or something similar (When I find the time ;-) -Marc _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support