Re:PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet
by agentultra on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:41AM
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Sorry, not outraged just genuinely confused what the draw is here for folks and what Pine's plans are for the "open source community."
Will they eventually release a consumer version that packages up all of the software other folks have written on their own dime? Or do they only release these as developer kits?
Re:PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet
by DoingIsLearning on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:55AM
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> Will they eventually release a consumer version that packages up all of the software other folks have written on their own dime?
That has been the Pine M.O. for their product line. The PineBook was a 'developer' release about 4 years ago. Now it is sold commercially as a full fledge ARM laptop.
The PineTime has now reached a stable hardware but still under SW development and the PineNote is I think the first HW revision that they are shipping.
Re:PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet
by CameronNemo on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:26AM
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I don't feel trapped by kobo/nxp:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Kobo_Clara_HD_(kobo-clara...
Many people contribute to mainline and to distros because they believe in those projects, no-one expects that these projects co-finance their hardware.
People will spend a lot more money than 400$ in other things, this is how they choose to spend both their money and time.