I bought a PinePhone hoping to be able to start using it and developing on it. But until it can reliably make it through the day, stay connected to the network, and not miss calls and texts, I have to use my android phone and I don't have two sim cards, so I can't really use it and develop on it.
I'm a electrical hardware design engineer.
I agree, that if Pine64 has enough money to fund a full time engineer, that's a much better use than giving any money to the distros. They should be funding an embedded specialist who should focus on board bring up, because clearly we're not out of that stage yet.
I've built lots of high-volume electronics hardware that is easily as complex as a cell-phone, and the order of development is very important. I'm in the middle of such development right now... Working on software and UI is a dead last on that priority list every time.
I'm a electrical hardware design engineer.
I agree, that if Pine64 has enough money to fund a full time engineer, that's a much better use than giving any money to the distros. They should be funding an embedded specialist who should focus on board bring up, because clearly we're not out of that stage yet.
I've built lots of high-volume electronics hardware that is easily as complex as a cell-phone, and the order of development is very important. I'm in the middle of such development right now... Working on software and UI is a dead last on that priority list every time.