[clug] Vaguely off topic: iPeds and other Android tablets - availability and comparisons to that Apple one

[Alex Satrapa]

On 05/08/2010, at 12:12 , Angus Gratton wrote:

> If you want to "fight the good fight" over open source and community
> development, you could buy a WM8505 based device with 1.6 and
> hope/encourage people to keep developing for it and for VIA to finish
> releasing the source. :)

A better way to make the point is to not buy the device at all. It's not open now, the manufacturer is making a token effort to make it "more open", the device is already obsolete, I doubt it will happen.

Get into HTML5 web app development, learn how to write a good UX using HTML5 for a handheld, and you'll be ready for the first truly open handheld that turns up.

Buying something in the hope that the manufacturer opens up the hardware spec?  That's kinda like people in the Mac gaming community complaining about the dearth of games, all the while running Windows games on their Mac under Wine/Darwine/VMWare/Parallels, and not realising that they are the problem.

If you want it to be Free but it's not, don't buy it.