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Not having a SD card isn't "they rely on the community to develop the software", it's hardware. Not designing the thing to include a SD card is their own fault
by Jiro 5y ago
Not having a SD card isn't "they rely on the community to develop the software", it's hardware. Not designing the thing to include a SD card is their own fault. And "well, if you disassemble a later model you can add an SD card by hardware hacking" is absurd.
Commercial products leave out the SD card 1) to encourage you to pay for their own services for purchases, rather than plopping some videos/mp3s/ebooks on a SD card, and 2) so they can price discriminate by offering less storage on some models. Pine64 doesn't have that excuse.
- sillystuff 5y agoIt is more like, yeah we blew it, but the cost of new tooling for injection molding an updated case would increase the cost of the (very low volume) device too much to reach a price point that would be accessible to as many hackers as possible. We'll add the port on newer revisions of the board, so you can either embed a card inside the device, or make/modify your own case. Lots of hackers all around the world don't make anywhere near the incomes of e.g., SV developers. So, this is more, "Lets keep the price down to make the community as large and inclusive as we can." The projected price point of the e-reader is, unfortunately, already too high for many.