06-25-2016, 11:08 AM
hehe many seem to have misunderstood the thread.. Or at least the topic changed a bit when the Pine64 Fanboys started crying and defending my "great useless hardware" statement , which i fully standby.. Here is the thing, i use linux alot so I prefer it over Android, so Android is not even in my picture..
And back the to fasle advertising .. Right now, these claims are false, cause without proper Mali drivers, its just rubbish.. And like someone here pointed out about these boards, it's not all about the hardware.. The community behind the product is what will determine it's success, that's just a simple fact.
And after the amount of money they raised on Kickstarter, and just being on Kickstarted, you expect a working platform, not just some half ass job... Anybody can make these boards, cause they just buy parts an put them together, it's not like Pine for example is making any of the components, none of this is proprietary..
To me this feels like some noobs just got an idea like "Hey let's make our own sbc with tiny bit better specs that Rasp Pi and let's put it on kickstarter" without thinking about the software side and just hope that somebody else will sort out that part..
I would be very surprised if Pine64 will not go out of business in the next 10-12 months or something like that if they dont take part of that money and spend it on software dev. to make this usefull..
Im into all kinds of hobby projects, 3d printing, cnc milling, laser cutter is next , then i have few other Arduino projects that im working on and stuff like that, and I look at these boards (both sbcs and microcontrollers) as parts in bigger projects.. I what to spend my time working on the whole project, not fucking about getting the parts to work properly, i expect the to work when i buy them so i dont have to spend the extra time, and thats why I feel like this is false adverising, cause on their page they are basicly just talking shit cause it cant deliver
And back the to fasle advertising .. Right now, these claims are false, cause without proper Mali drivers, its just rubbish.. And like someone here pointed out about these boards, it's not all about the hardware.. The community behind the product is what will determine it's success, that's just a simple fact.
And after the amount of money they raised on Kickstarter, and just being on Kickstarted, you expect a working platform, not just some half ass job... Anybody can make these boards, cause they just buy parts an put them together, it's not like Pine for example is making any of the components, none of this is proprietary..
To me this feels like some noobs just got an idea like "Hey let's make our own sbc with tiny bit better specs that Rasp Pi and let's put it on kickstarter" without thinking about the software side and just hope that somebody else will sort out that part..
I would be very surprised if Pine64 will not go out of business in the next 10-12 months or something like that if they dont take part of that money and spend it on software dev. to make this usefull..
Im into all kinds of hobby projects, 3d printing, cnc milling, laser cutter is next , then i have few other Arduino projects that im working on and stuff like that, and I look at these boards (both sbcs and microcontrollers) as parts in bigger projects.. I what to spend my time working on the whole project, not fucking about getting the parts to work properly, i expect the to work when i buy them so i dont have to spend the extra time, and thats why I feel like this is false adverising, cause on their page they are basicly just talking shit cause it cant deliver