emberdaway
Crazy, I know. Investing in difficult R&D problems to produce a quality product is not a good business model. It's so much easier to churn out a working devkit and ask for pull requests.
Sorry for the snark and pessimism, but that's what happens when you keep getting burned. This statement does not inspire confidence:
>Finally, to ensure that Pocket P.C. has great software support out of the box, we have requested embedded development help from the community.
Why is software always an afterthought with these projects? Especially a project like this, which has clearly seen an enormous amount of effort put into the hardware design.
Many more radios, but many fewer buttons and pixels.
It's nice that we have so many options for tiny computers these days, but sooner or later, someone is going to have to find something useful to do with them.
The UI and developer experience has never gotten quite good enough to drive a market the size of smartphones or laptops, so...what are we doing here? Is it time to acknowledge that the masses don't particularly want general-purpose computing machines? That there isn't much of a market for anything that isn't plug-and-play? That's a depressing thought.