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</div>The smartphone is both hardware and software - it's not as trivial as a<br>
hammer that you compared it with.</blockquote><div><br><br>Few analogies fit 1:1. It was just an example. <br><br>Coverage of the FR gives one the impression that it's a phone for general use and not a development phone. You have<br>
to look at the wiki before you find out the phone software isn't ready for primetime.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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The software is not finished yet. This is stated almost everywhere.</blockquote><div><br><br>It's not stated on the ordering page or in a lot of the news coverage where people find out about these things.<br> <br></div>
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Hence - if a person wants a ready to use phone, openmoko is not the way<br>
to go. I'm pretty sure you'd agree (at it's present state).</blockquote></div><br>Yes, I agree, but people that bought one without knowing the full extent are going to be mad. It's essentially a <br>$400 mistake....the only real return policy stated is against the hardware being<br>
DOA and not buyer's regret. With that being the case I think you really need to manage expectations of what's coming in the box.<br><br>And we especially need to get rid of this "Well FINE, go buy an IPHONE then!" attitude. It's not so much telling someone they'd<br>
be happier with an iphone as it the fact that one would imagine it being said in the same tone you would use to go tell someone to jump<br>in a lake.<br><br>I think managing expectations is the crucial part...even slashdot had a pretty lukewarm response to the FR, going by the comments.<br>
Most of the discussion I've seen around the web seems to focus on the preliminary state of the software rather than then openness of<br>the phone.<br></div>