When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

Fri Aug 13 12:41:03 CEST 2010

> And, I never understood why we should assume, that a premier league 
> player would ever care for a small community like ours.

not for that small community per se.
it would most likely be only a intersection of interests.
the manufacturer would be able to
- gain a reputation as being "open" (which might appeal to goverments as 
well b/c of several reasons)
- additional promotion by mouth-to-mouth through people being interested 
in open devices, probably cheaper than paid merchandising for the same 
group
- somewhat broadened developer base
- android inspired cost structure: make your hw specs public -> enable 
developers to make the best from it -> gain market share since your device 
offers the most b/c developers can use the hw and are not limited to 
app-like apis (cf iP[od|hone|ad])
with the success of android, i think a more open approach might appeal to 
vendors.