04-09-2016, 06:08 PM
Just to be honest, while i have experience with the PIs and their basic concept, their great advantage was, their goal from the start was to provide a cheap and world wide easy to use platform, so they had a hardware _and_ software concept to get the best combination and keep everything under their own control.
The Pine guys just provided a cheap hardware platform and promised there will be some community driven software/OS development. They always said, they will support everybody willing to do development with boards and specs, but they never mentioned (as far as i now) to develop this themselves.
So the 'normal' backer maybe is frustrated now, because their marketing wasn't so bad and i assume many backers (and i must admit me too) mainly hoped for a cheap running all kind of software at full speed 4K device ;-)
But nevertheless, good things need time (as we say in Germany), so lets just have a look at the next steps...
The Pine guys just provided a cheap hardware platform and promised there will be some community driven software/OS development. They always said, they will support everybody willing to do development with boards and specs, but they never mentioned (as far as i now) to develop this themselves.
So the 'normal' backer maybe is frustrated now, because their marketing wasn't so bad and i assume many backers (and i must admit me too) mainly hoped for a cheap running all kind of software at full speed 4K device ;-)
But nevertheless, good things need time (as we say in Germany), so lets just have a look at the next steps...
Still a linux newbie with several EEE-PCs, PI's, LattePanda and some Desktops/Laptops running Win10. Now also proudly using Pine64+ 2GB and gigabit LAN
