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Seems it is picking up speed again. If they could keep the price below 700$ for everyone, I think it might even go through, but then they'd probably go bankrupt
by napoleoncomplex 13y ago
Seems it is picking up speed again. If they could keep the price below 700$ for everyone, I think it might even go through, but then they'd probably go bankrupt.
As a side-note, it's insane that raising $32 million with crowdfunding actually does not seem that impossible anymore.
- chmike 13y agoFor hardware, it's just a matter of value in the user's eye and the risk of failure. Such offer have the most chance to succed and there isn't much risk in the first place. I see a high value in a unix Os with a very low barrier to write native apps. IOs is a completely closed ecosystem on even has to pay to put a feet in. Android has the cost of java vm overhead and programming overhead. Eclipse makes me sick. Qt creator is much more efficient and productive. With the possibility to hook a big screen to the device (hopefully a plug&play operation) we could directly program and fiddle with the phone. Though I think we will still need the power of a big cpu to speed up development process. Hopefully, with the Os, we'll be able to program with our preferred language and use C compiled with Clang when we'll want the most efficient one. This could be a little revolution and what I'm looking forward with this Ubuntu phone Os.
- MatthewPhillips 13y agoIt's still a bummer that you're limited to basically C++ or QML (a weird hybrid of css and javascript). Why no mobile OSes offer true language choice is a mystery to me.
- viraptor 13y agoWhat do you mean by "limited to c++"? If you can run c++ apps, that means you can write a short wrapper to any language / environment you want and use that for the app itself.