Comment by trentor
5 days ago
Qualcomm is not a good software steward. Every time I used something they had their hand in, it was abandoned rather sooner than later.
Eudora: bought, milked, killed. BREW: rotted. AllJoyn: dead. Toq/Mirasol: gone in two years. CodeAurora: shut down. And the $899 Snapdragon Dev Kit: shipped months late, then cancelled with support "paused indefinitely" while units were still in transit. Even Adreno drivers barely get updates after launch.
The silicon is great. But software at Qualcomm is a launch checkbox, not a commitment. At this point, "powered by Qualcomm" on a dev platform is a signal to stay away.
Eudora was the first email client I used in the 90s, I didn't know that qualcomm was responsible for it's disappearance. Looks like the source was released in its last breath[0]; i'm a bit surprised it hasn't been scooped up and maintained anywhere
[0] https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora-email-client-sou...
It has now been decades since I used Eudora. I still feel I lost the best email client due to Qualcomm’s neglect