I mean most of these are software problems. It is built on a Cortex A7, released in 2011, the same SoC being used in "original" Raspberry Pi 2. Even if the remarkable team had the time to develop or adopt open source solution they will still need their hardware to keep up.
And they had to lower the price to $299 already because of the volume they were selling at $399 simply wont make it.
This just shows the bar of today's consumers. If they had sold at least a million unit a year they could easily have further lower the price by another $100 while working on a much improved R3 with better processor ( not that I am aware of there is one... all the NXP SoC Solution are quite under powered ).
Last time I checked they were at least profitable. So I hope they keep working on it.
And they had to lower the price to $299 already because of the volume they were selling at $399 simply wont make it.
This just shows the bar of today's consumers. If they had sold at least a million unit a year they could easily have further lower the price by another $100 while working on a much improved R3 with better processor ( not that I am aware of there is one... all the NXP SoC Solution are quite under powered ).
Last time I checked they were at least profitable. So I hope they keep working on it.
Consumer Electronics are hard. Very Hard.