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Re: Thousands wait for sold-out iPhone. OpenMoko OSS phone "a tangled" pile of mess and confusion.
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:56:51 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
> "Hadron" <hadronquark@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:g57tpv$613$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> "Ezekiel" <f@u.com> writes:
>>
>>> OpenMoko's ongoing development strategy is to evolve the ASU and FSO in
>>> parallel, and eventually replace the Qtopia phone bits with the FSO
>>> phone
>>> bits when FSO is sufficiently mature. The Illume launcher and other
>>> EFL-based software will be more tightly integrated with the phone
>>> functionality at that point and the Qtopia parts of the ASU will be
>>> scaled
>>> back incrementally. Eventually, the PIM functionality and other
>>> higher-level components will be retooled to work on FreeSmartphone.org
>>
>> Wow. No wonder people get confused.
>
> If you read the article it's actually way worse than this. There's several
> paragraphs in the article where they talk about all of the different
> toolkits, frameworks and API's that exist and what's being replaced by what
> and blah, blah, blah. I didn't copy it all because there's just too much to
> get into in a single post but what a mess. I assumed that they would do the
> obvious/sensible thing and initially release one framework for the phone so
> that people can develop apps for it. Instead there are all sorts of
> incompatible bits and pieces to this thing and it's chaos from day one.
Are they going to have 500+ plus different versions of this phone like they
have with Linux distributions?
Ain't choice great!!!!!!!
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:56:51 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
> "Hadron" <hadronquark@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:g57tpv$613$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> "Ezekiel" <f@u.com> writes:
>>
>>> OpenMoko's ongoing development strategy is to evolve the ASU and FSO in
>>> parallel, and eventually replace the Qtopia phone bits with the FSO
>>> phone
>>> bits when FSO is sufficiently mature. The Illume launcher and other
>>> EFL-based software will be more tightly integrated with the phone
>>> functionality at that point and the Qtopia parts of the ASU will be
>>> scaled
>>> back incrementally. Eventually, the PIM functionality and other
>>> higher-level components will be retooled to work on FreeSmartphone.org
>>
>> Wow. No wonder people get confused.
>
> If you read the article it's actually way worse than this. There's several
> paragraphs in the article where they talk about all of the different
> toolkits, frameworks and API's that exist and what's being replaced by what
> and blah, blah, blah. I didn't copy it all because there's just too much to
> get into in a single post but what a mess. I assumed that they would do the
> obvious/sensible thing and initially release one framework for the phone so
> that people can develop apps for it. Instead there are all sorts of
> incompatible bits and pieces to this thing and it's chaos from day one.
Are they going to have 500+ plus different versions of this phone like they
have with Linux distributions?
Ain't choice great!!!!!!!
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/