I have no experience with HTC (or 'smart' devices in general) but what I can tell you is that the negativity over drivers of their unhardware-accelerated products has cost the company far more than they think they saved.
this is 2nd hand info from my g/f who happens to deal with Qualcomm from time to time (the makers of the before mentioned driverless chips people bemoan), and their licensing is really wacky... its easy to licence the chip for use with features unsupported in the agreement (through either hardware chopping, or software lack of support). The company she is working for (that assists carriers, and makers of cell phones) do the same kind of thing... a chip that can have features enabled, or disabled with the presence of more, or less money.
So it quite honestly is probably not a case of 'Give me the drivers already damnit!', and more a case of... damn... we should have sprung for all the features on that chip.
If it was as easy as a driver... it probably would have already been done.
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How hard is it to make some GODDAMN DRIVERS!!!
I have no experience with HTC (or 'smart' devices in general) but what I can tell you is that the negativity over drivers of their unhardware-accelerated products has cost the company far more than they think they saved.
this is 2nd hand info from my g/f who happens to deal with Qualcomm from time to time (the makers of the before mentioned driverless chips people bemoan), and their licensing is really wacky... its easy to licence the chip for use with features unsupported in the agreement (through either hardware chopping, or software lack of support). The company she is working for (that assists carriers, and makers of cell phones) do the same kind of thing... a chip that can have features enabled, or disabled with the presence of more, or less money.
So it quite honestly is probably not a case of 'Give me the drivers already damnit!', and more a case of... damn... we should have sprung for all the features on that chip.
If it was as easy as a driver... it probably would have already been done.
'Now extra official'
Is this a standing joke or just engadget enjoying to say the same line in different ways? Either someones official or not?
;)
how hard is it to put a SPACE BETWEEN THE WORDS GOD AND DAMN!!!
@El Taco:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/goddamn
Just fine the way it is.