[maemo-developers] N810 RIP

[From: Sarah Newman]

Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> The rumors are fascinating.  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.  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.  If I postpone delivery until after the rumored next-generation
> platform appears, what assurance do I have that Nokia will not balk again? 

I get digests from the alsa-devel mailing list and there has been at 
least one patch from nokia for the omap3.  If it was just a rumor I 
don't think they would bother.  Perhaps nokia could itself kept a 
convenient record of their patches to upstream projects, assuming they 
don't already.

http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-January/014311.html

Regards, Sarah