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by hedora 3075 days ago
This startup isn’t going to prevent things from being worked on by others, but if they can’t decide basic things like which gui toolkit to use, then they’ll burn through their (extremely limited) funding well before they have a working, let alone competitive, product.

The mistake of “support every option in the community for version 1.0” has happened before. I suggest reading an OpenMoko postmortem (especially if you are somehow involved with this project).

For this product to succeed they need to minimize the amount of time and resources they spend getting to a phone that works as a daily driver.

Someone else can port qt/gtk/elightenment/etc to it after that happens. Otherwise, there will be no sustainable hardware platform to port those things to.