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Dead simple is near impossible to create with this many chef's stirring the pot already

Yep. Three words: "Openmoko Train Wreck":

http://www.vimeo.com/1366042?pg=embed&sec=1366042

After I saw this video, I really appreciated the time and money the Apple engineers must have spent in designing the iPhone keyboard.

I've got a new policy: I refuse to get excited about open-source vaporware. Talk is cheap. Design is expensive, and having one thousand people work for one hour each is no substitute for having one person work a thousand hours.

Any information on who actually worked on OpenMoko? Just because it is OpenSource doesn't mean that there are zillions of volunteers working on it. It might still just have been one company that screwed up it's product.

iPhone 3G has its problems too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252923

we will manage that. the dev community will be live tonight and it has already been split up into sub-projects with leads on each one.

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