maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Furture maemo UMPC via kickstarer funding

	onethreealpha	2013-05-29 , 12:11
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Originally Posted by The Wizard of Huz

How many do you have to sell to make a project like this sustainable?
How many do you have to sell to get a proper cpu (not necessarily the latest and greatest) for a decent price?

Those are the most important questions. Then probable you have to buy display in sizes which are not much used by the big players, because they tend to hog the supply chain.

Here's some more important questions:

Is it Arm or x86?
what is the hardware design? who doing the CAD and electrical schematics for the mainboard and SoC stack?
Who's doing the hardware adaptation for whatever product you want to put Maemo on?
If you're getting drivers from the h/w vendor, will they guarantee support and updates (since it's now out of your hands?) and at what cost? Or will they drop any and/or all support when THEY move to another SoC/chipset/GPU...
Who's going to work on and bugfix all the forked stuff that can't easily be replaced without major re-working of the OS?
who's going to do the UI adaptation for the screen resolution?
who providing the updates for coreOS.
who's going to set up and host the repo/
who's going to maintain, log and fix bugs?
who's going to get existing apps modified to run on the new screen resolution?
What IDE are you going to use for dev work?
Who will provide software builds for emulation?

shall I go on?

...better off waiting for Vivaldi tab and then work to replace plasma active with Hildon

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