It is ridiculous. What is needed is a support for advert & bloat & forced updates free smart phone, not reinventing the wheel. Yes, someone must be first - but it is about software, not hardware.

*Someone makes a cool hobby project*

Internet people: “Trash. I don’t approve because isn’t useful to me. Fuck you and die.”

Someone: makes something completely and utterly useless.

Internet people: voice justified criticism.

Half wits: “how dare you criticise the creators!”

Why does the end product of an electronics learning project need to be useful? Or any hobby project? Your criticism was that their hobbies should yield something useful, but where’s the “justification” for that? What’s wrong with just having fun?

Quarter wits: “How dare you have fun”

Why does the end product of an electronics learning project need to be useful? Or any hobby project?

So we agree it is useless? OK.

Kind of, it’s a pretty shit phone, and the creator is not pretending otherwise. Why are you so offended and why should they do whatever you want them to do instead?