Promises made for Adam II

Some of those kind folk at TR and NI blogs kept telling us all through Adam 1 that NI made no promises, never mind the plethora of evidence. They have no credibility left, and it's interesting to see very little commentary on Adam 2. Yes, it doesn't feel nice to be led on, does it?

Now, let's look at the sorry saga of Adam 2.

May 2013 - new - "dual displays"

On Apr 5 2012 the CEO of Notion Ink said once again that they're back from hibernation and "will keep you busy reading on weekends." , “Let me know what is flowing across your minds and I will keep you busy reading on weekends!” - April 5 2012, Rohan Shravan, “CEO” of Notion Ink. Go to the blog to see what happened soon after that.

It's a lack of shame and ethics on that company, its founders and investors.

So far, here are the things we've heard for Adam 2. All directly from Notion Ink.

Jan 6 - 2012 (see post 59): "We intend to release 2 variants of warranties, one specially for Hackers and Geeks to ensure this is not an issue"

"Every Software we will release will make available a template (read about Templates in C++) which you can tear down, Cut, Copy and create your own applications. This all will be done by a normal user, not programmers. We have a very strong perspective that programmers should not be the only ones who create apps. They shou"ld create plugins, cos need of a doctor is different from the needs of an Engineer. Genesis will be the Store House of these plugins, plugins which will help expand any application, or let you create one from scratch by drag and drop mechanism"

8-Jan - 2012 "Our mission is to promote and pursue community based development" (can someone tell me, especially those big supporters at TR, what this community based development for ADAM 2 is?)

21-Jan-2012 - "Adam II will release the world’s first Modular Based Software Architecture which will further expand the scope of application development and use nearly every single hardware feature in a “user customizable” application. Drag and drop features will enable easy application modification and Open Source Module will further expand the use cases and tablet deployment"

Apart from this, there's the usual Quicklogic partnership. There's been little from NI on Adam 2 (ignoring that nonsense about infographs), and I have no issues with that so long as they make it clear that there won't be, instead of misleading people.

Now, when Adam 2 does come out (if it), we'll see how much of this is real. I bet not a lot, and there will be idiots coming and telling us that Notion Ink meant something else and it's all your fault for buying it.