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2012-07-16 , 19:07
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Originally Posted by volt View Post
This, this I don't like. Defensive, traditional thinking. An OS that only geeks can possibly care about for the next four quarters, and has an market share of 0.00% should not start it's segmentation willfully already. Putting up hoops for early adapters to jump through when their odds are so low already.
I'm in full disagreement with you on this. I think the dual device release model is the ideal way to do it with an open source OS if you want to compete with the big guys that can throw paid manpower at their OS development.
I would look at it as a business expense and a model which I think others will try to copy in the future. Compare giving a device away to a dev who is very happy to have it and will contribute to fixing bugs to paying someone a wage and all the other expenses that go with it.
Maybe the correct ratio of dev device to mass market device is 1/3.
I would think a dev device can serve as a bridge device between your current device and your next 2 devices. It could be an expensive device with significantly more power and equipment than the current device but able to emulate it and somewhere close to the same power and equipment as your next 2 devices.