09-10-2016, 10:40 PM
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(09-10-2016, 08:31 PM)dkryder Wrote: it would seem to me that any large scale project would need to have finished product within 6 months for simple reason of outdating of technology. no doubt there will be people that still use this board in a years time but due to new products at same or less cost [hopefully even from pine64] that operate at faster speeds and greater capacities the market for this board will be in secondary class. also, it just seems to me that this board is pine64's baby and it's theirs to fix or to replace. my suggestion is to come up with a new board that works & is open source with learning and building on the current experience and perhaps give current registered owners a good discount to move onto the new design.
Not at all sure that this is the best thread to be having this discussion, but yes, I've ruminated on similar thoughts. Any successful project has to have a vibrant and dedicated community behind it, and it does feel a bit like Pine64 tossed their baby out in the wild and have relied an awful lot on the goodwill of some brilliant and generous folks to diagnose it's troubles and document their findings.
I don't regret for a second backing this project on Kickstarter, but speaking for myself, I would be more than happy to pay another $15/$19/$30 USD on a Version "B", "2.0", or "Beta" (because this whole experience has felt very Alpha to me) board that addresses all of the many issues that the backers were 'rewarded' with and simply delivers what I think we were all led to expect for the last 10 months.
The specs don't need improvement, really, for the time being- it can run as an Android tablet, a decent Linux box, and has the potential to do all sorts of stuff with GPIO, I2C, OW, etc. with what it presently has under the hood. It just seems like much too much was overlooked or had to be modified last minute during production for various reasons.