> If you work in the industry or even follow the public announcements closely, it's very clear that the next 5 years will see a rapid uptick in deployments with improving ODD capabilities.
I follow the public announcements very closely, and have seen your sentiment about "ready in five years" expressed since at least 2014.
>But then again, so what; if it comes out in 2036 it comes out in 2036.
There's this whole 'passing of time', and "we'll all eventually die", thing though, right?
If it comes out in 2036, it's totally irrelevant for a working dev in 2024 to be concerned with it. So that he'll get to use it in a decade? At this point it's already a promise-ware, and it's like it has community adoption to be promising.
To add some context: the Librem 5 project started with a crowdfunding campaign at the end of 2017. The initial projected release date was early 2019, but the project caught delays and eventually started shipping preorders in quantity in late 2020 (early revisions started shipping to backers who opted in for those at the turn of 2019/2020 already). At this point, however, the world was well into component shortage, which ended up severely impacting the production. Right now the shipping queue is at the preorders from early 2019 (with some thousands of phones already shipped) and is expected to reach the present somewhere in the first half of 2023. The product is certainly "built yet", it's just shipping slower than anticipated and, in turn, still has a queue of preorders from years ago to fulfill (I believe the most dense preorder periods have been handled by now though).
How sure would you say you are? Want to put some money on that?
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