Innovation is tricky even more tricky than business.
Supposing that we want embrace this path which seems counter intuitive because there is no value in adopting a platform that has not been designed for the smartphones market and never succeed in this market in any declination.
Accepting that because this HUGE barrier there is a HUGE opportunity behind, which makes sense.
The most effective approach is:
- do not reinvent the wheel - move to a Linux distribution just supported by its community
- do not create further barriers - choose such distribution for binary compatibility
- do not create useless stress - among those distributions choose one that uses RPM
These three points brings us to the conclusion that SFOS refactoring is necessary and it is the premise to keep it updated with as less as possible effort.
However, there are still in place 2 more HUGE issues:
- bring value for a customers niche to support a business and/or intercept interested developers
- deal with the closed source blobs which mainly are about hardware firmware and its support
This requires an architectural change of the system in order to introduce another PoV into this sector.
A recovery image was missing, clearly. This lack has been fulfill. At least, I did.
A recovery image is an essential tool for everything above but also a tool that have brought in another PoV, and this is its the most of its value. Because another PoV was more essential than a tool.
The first part of this PoV has been presented in SFSCON 2023 speech but the slides contains it in full.
The RedFish OS business presentation completes the picture about creating value for customers and which customers.
You might like it or not. You might like me or not. You might think that is enough or not. But that’s it.