Hi, I understand all you want to know what device(s) come after the N810 and when. The only details we can share now is that more products will come for sure.
ext Jeffrey Barish wrote: > The rumors are fascinating. I wouldn't call rumors to - Public presentations done by Nokia representatives, from engineers to a vice-president. - 2 unstable releases (the second yesterday) telling already a lot about supported hardware and features. - Significant contributions done already upstream, starting from the omap list in the Linux kernel project. - Dozens of bugs resolved as FIXED targeting the Fremantle release plus an additional bunch of bugs commented as reproducible in Fremantle. - An announced selection of community projects that will get early access to new hardware. All the content visible and linked at http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle comes from official sources. > In the meantime, I am nearly ready to start > shipping my software but my potential customers have nothing on which to > run it, unless they happen to own an N8x0 already. The N810 sales are continuing. The progressive price reduction is business as usual in this industry. > Nokia opened their > platform to encourage developers to contribute their expertise, but their > capriciousness and opacity about their hardware roadmap are tolerable only > to hobbyists or companies porting software from another platform as a > sideline. As much as I love free software and open roadmaps, I must reckon that in the current times transparent hardware roadmaps are not helping companies to sell devices sooner, cheaper or better. For companies like Nokia, the ultimate reason behind hardware roadmap opacity is to sell more and better, which is equivalent to increase more your potential user base. Get more (and happier) users by bringing better products than the competition and get more (and happier) users by managing consumer expectations and media hype. > If you see only > melodrama in these concerns, then perhaps you have never tried to run a > business in the face of such uncertainty. For what is worth Forum Nokia is being quite frank presenting Maemo today more as a platform for fast prototyping and Linux innovation than a profitable business for application developers. My advice to commercial developers is to make a step in the Maemo platform, learn and have fun with it. This way you will be ready to go when the right time for commercial software comes. Getting yourselves introduced to Forum Nokia might help you having some business even before. -- Quim Gil open source advocate Maemo Software @ Nokia _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
