03-30-2018, 06:28 PM
(03-30-2018, 04:29 PM)joe Wrote:(03-30-2018, 02:56 PM)dkryder Wrote: my guess, based on 2 years of observing the company, is the pine64 board is end of life or very near it. look, they screwed us on the pine64 / win10 IoT thing. microsoft at one time was willing to give them a shot but there never was any interest on the part of pine64 to put the resources into even trying to make it successful, imo. pine64 was depending on allwinner engineer(s) and eventually allwinner lost interest. right now it is just too late in the product cycle and the pine64 board itself is somewhat lacking considering other candidates. pine64 management has stated multiple times that they are a hardware company and that software comes mostly from community. what that means, in this case is don't look for a heck of a lot of support from them concerning the pine64 board Win10 IoT at this point, if ever. maybe they can take what they have learned along with allwinner and release a new board at some point that will work well with Win10 IoT. that's the way i see it.
If you look around cheap price have WIN 10 IOT only rpi3 have keep it to support. , other side Bxxxxx Win10 IOT forum at same have this problem.
And from bootlin kickstarter vpu support , pine64 have paid it this money to support A64. So this is your said PineA64 end of life or very near it?
https://bootlin.com/blog/kickstarter-for...ly-funded/
if really want to use WIN 10 IOT , buy RPI3.
yes, that is what i said. the original pine64 set of boards, based on pine64 lack of support of win10 IoT and other softwares from the company, is either at or very near end of life as far pine64 company is concerned. of course they will support any 3rd party efforts to give the boards any additional traction. i guess we will know at end of this year if this project you mention has been able to be successful. i tend to view the LTS version coming into existence as more evidence that the company will retire the original pine64 boards fairly soon. it has something to do with production costs. the number of boards that need to be built during a production run should be able to be sold within a certain time frame or the unsold boards become a drag on the profitability of the company. boards that are no longer popular, or the excess number of used boards in the market, just tend to decrease bottom line. there is no reason to do a run of 1,000 boards if they will sit on shelves for way too long. if i really wanted to do win10 IoT rpi3 would be next to last board i'd use. minnowboard turbot is my choice.