![]() ![]() Accuses Price of cheating his backers by not fulfilling his Kickstarter promises.Huang up on the challenge, stating that the Android-IA mailing list is not the proper place to do so.Ĭhih-Wei Huang -> Christopher Price/Console OS: ![]() Christopher Price responds, but does not take Mr. That same day, Christopher Price posts an update on the Console OS Kickstarter page responding to the criticism.ĭecember 31, 2015: In response to the accusations levied at Chih-Wei Huang in the Kickstarter update, Chih-Wei Huang challenges Christopher Price to produce at least 10% of the features he promised, and offers him $50,000 to do so by the New Year. It goes viral when the story is posted to the Android subreddit. ~January 2015: Intel halts support for Android-IA, dropping both support for Core and PC tablets.ĭecember 11, 2015: Chih-Wei Huang publicly calls out Christopher Price and Console OS, stating that Price is scamming his Kickstarter backers by failing to deliver on his promises.ĭecember 25, 2015: The backlash begins to bubble as several outlets and developers begin covering the issue. The group’s reason for the ban is that they quickly determined the project to be a scam after speaking with Price.Īugust 11, 2014: Console OS Kickstarter ended. ~June-August, 2014: Christopher Price, and all discussion of Console OS, is banned from the Android-x86 discussion board. June 12, 2014: Console OS was announced on Kickstarter. Note: there are many smaller events which play a part in each party’s grievances, however, they pale in comparison to the events listed below. The Kickstarter ended on Augwith a total of $78,497 raised from 5,695 backers. The project’s long-term goal, according to the CEO, is the “ step up Vulkan, and leverage Console OS to build a gaming console that takes on the major players.” Purports to be a fork of the Android Open Source Project, and aims to bring a functional Android build on various popular desktop/laptop configurations by licensing drivers from Intel. (MMV) (now re-branded as Console, Inc.) to port Android to computers running on Intel architecture. Console OS : A crowdfunded effort by Mobile Media Ventures, Inc.Known for his previous ventures ‘Mechaworks’ and ‘iConsoleTV.’ Christopher Pric e :CEO of Console, Inc., and public face of Console OS.An interview with Chih-Wei Huang ran on Gamasutra a year and a half back that gives some insight behind his work on Android-x86. Based in Taiwan, the developer has offered his time to Android-x86 since 2009. Chih-Wei Huang: Lead maintainer of the Android-x86 open-source project.The project is maintained by volunteers without the support of any vendors, and has successfully ported Android to a wide variety of devices. Android-x86: An open-source, collaborative effort to port Android to a wide-range of computers running on Intel architecture.It is unclear why exactly this move occurred. Without much warning, Intel dropped support for the project on all hardware save the MinnowBoard MAX. Intel itself contributed a large amount of support to the group, which is crucial for fixing hardware-specific bugs and getting necessary drivers running properly on Android. ![]()
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