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Godzil · 07-10-2009, 03:48 AM

There are some points I don't understand here:

- Company who sell hardware+software is not new, and will never disapear, since the hard and software are closely tied. Why anothoer company will risk to make software for such hardware with a very strong chance to never sell/give it enought to be rentable? (Look to the iPod for exemple, they sell very well and no-one try with success to make another popular firmware, and no one even try to sell these firmware
- Why wanted Android for the liseuses?? Android is strongly tied to MOBILE PHONE hardware, not generic hardware, and Android is mainly a Linux, like the majority of liseuse on the market. Android is only a layer on top of linux, that, from my point of view, is not, really not well adapted for eInk screen.

Even is a liseuse is made with a CPU, RAM, ROM, and other things that we found on a computer, even if for a lot Linux is the OS used inside, they are NOT computer like thoses we use (for a majority of us) everyday. They need some special treatment for energy management, and a lot of other things like that.

I even think that project like OpenInkPot, will be as good as an official build from the hardware manufacturer who know how the device is made and all of it's "secrets" on how to address hardware.

I seriously doubt that Bookeen's hardware are so obsolete like you say. There are a lot of EB600/Gen3 clone that just come out, with IMHO loosy software (look at Elonex or Cool-er for example)

The futur will say to us. But for the liseuses market, we don't need a new device every month like the computer's market.

07-10-2009, 03:48 AM	#171
Godzil a pthread?? where? where? Posts: 1,763 Karma: 30462 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Somewhere in EU Device: Newton MessagePad 2100, and only this	There are some points I don't understand here: - Company who sell hardware+software is not new, and will never disapear, since the hard and software are closely tied. Why anothoer company will risk to make software for such hardware with a very strong chance to never sell/give it enought to be rentable? (Look to the iPod for exemple, they sell very well and no-one try with success to make another popular firmware, and no one even try to sell these firmware - Why wanted Android for the liseuses?? Android is strongly tied to MOBILE PHONE hardware, not generic hardware, and Android is mainly a Linux, like the majority of liseuse on the market. Android is only a layer on top of linux, that, from my point of view, is not, really not well adapted for eInk screen. Even is a liseuse is made with a CPU, RAM, ROM, and other things that we found on a computer, even if for a lot Linux is the OS used inside, they are NOT computer like thoses we use (for a majority of us) everyday. They need some special treatment for energy management, and a lot of other things like that. I even think that project like OpenInkPot, will be as good as an official build from the hardware manufacturer who know how the device is made and all of it's "secrets" on how to address hardware. I seriously doubt that Bookeen's hardware are so obsolete like you say. There are a lot of EB600/Gen3 clone that just come out, with IMHO loosy software (look at Elonex or Cool-er for example) The futur will say to us. But for the liseuses market, we don't need a new device every month like the computer's market.