At the risk of being flamed : State of software

[Michael Shiloh]

Attila Csipa wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 August 2007 16:39:54 Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
>> No they didn't. But TT employees keep pushing the idea at the very least.
>> This is their good right, but I reserve mine to call them on it ;)
> 
> Can you give some references on this (just out of curiosity) ?
> 
>> it). I don't think the installed base of Greenphones is ever gonna be big,
>> whereas GTA02 might get a few (tens of?) thousands devices shipped...
> 
> The greenphone is never meant to be a mass-market device - it is the 
> counterpart of the GTA01, but AFAIK unlike the FIC-OpenMoko connection, TT 
> never wanted to be a Phone manufacturer so for them the greenphone is simply 
> a tech demonstrator and development platform, not the first stage of an 
> end-user device, for which they apparently hope to get commercial interest 
> from mobile phone vendors (in which they admittedly haven't been all that 
> successful as of yet).

Which raises an interesting opportunity for them: If they want to get 
out of the hardware business, they could port Qtopia to the Neo (or 
subsequent OpenMoko-ready hardware) and either resell the Neo 
pre-programmed on their website, or point people to us.

I guess it depends on how much of a hassle it is for them to be making 
hardware, and how important it is for them to have hardware with their 
name on it.

Michael