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I welcome the criticism, but storming in to make a thread about how **** this device is according to you while you haven't taken the time before to find out what it can and can't do, that's just a waste of everyones time.
If you have to return this device because you don't like it, you haven't done your research on it, and have just gone for something shiny. Too bad you only saw a raw diamond, but it's getting refined. If you're a business user you probably don't have time to wait for the refinement or then you have the means to keep this baby in your top drawer waiting for its glorious future, and have another business phone in use until then. ot but kudos to the mods who have been making awesome tags today for pages :) |
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As far as the "as many as possible" part goes, check into the philosophy of "firing your troublesome customers". ;) |
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If the person just doesn't like the car and the other person says "Can you tell me why?" and the other person just sits there "Well.. it just doesn't FEEL right.. you know when you push on the clutch, or shift on this.. it's just not right." That's fine... However.. if that person then hangs around that car.. and every person getting into the car they sit there going "This car sucks, you can't shift, the seat feels like ****, and the manufacturer eats babies"... Well - no - there is nothing useful about that. And *that* seems to be the problem we have on these forums. As I've said many, many times - I don't mind when people complain. They can complain in a well thought out, very detailed way - or a very ignorant (as in lack of knowledge) but friendly way.. and I don't care. When they complain belligerently I get annoyed.. but not hostile. When they complain again.. and again.. and again.. and insist on quoting every person that has something *good* to say about the N900 (car) and constantly regurgitate their same complaints again, and again.... No. That's not useful. It's downright annoying and ridiculous. Although.. I can't say the OP was all that useful either.. but I understand the point - and even agree to a certain point.. but wasn't the best approach IMHO. |
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.fillTheKettle() .turnKettleOn() .findTeaBags() .steepTea() But we do have the tea steeping timer and are working on embedding it into the app. It has a long way to go but we are ahead of the iPhone app. (I just gave it a name) |
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"Firing your troublesome customers?" You mean like... http://consumerist.com/2008/03/leaks...-document.html or heck.. http://consumerist.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt...tag=best%20buy You want Nokia to be the Best Buy of manufacturing? :) Quote:
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If I've seen them in a dozen different threads.. and they said the same thing in all of them... that's when it starts to really get annoying. And I am pretty sure that's where most of the people attacking "whining" are really coming from. |
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what if you complain about people who whine about people who complain? :p
that is exactly where I was coming from fatal saint |
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Learn to read between lines.
Try to understand other ppl view. Take the positive ideas from other ppl feedback. And do sum. mean write in a positive way, mean do construct! Did this post sum o not sum? uhmmm |
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just because people post negative things of the n900 doesnt mean theyre complaining. Unless you are the CEO of nokia, it really shouldnt bother you. A lot of people have very constructive criticism and its helpful for all of us. Sometimes when I have problems with my n900 im hesitant to make a thread because I know people like you (and others) will jump all over it. I understand where your going with this but we shouldnt discourage people from posting their criticism, your not forced to read all the threads here.
EDIT: If you're talking about people like orangebox, then ignore everything I wrote, ill switch sides (although he did have some useful info once in a while) |
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Another Nokia apologizer will become extinct
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But, that said, I am interested to see what it DOES have and I simply sit in wait and hope for Nokia to make something more along the lines of what I want, and maybe a small business might like, in a price range I can accept for the purposes of a computing-first device that should be competing against netbooks rather than cell phones. Quote:
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I scan the "New Posts" all day and clean out as much as I can but I'm wayyy behind right now. Something like 400 threads. But for me.. it's hard to help people in the middle of all the crap threads that get started.. it makes me get really picky about which ones I pay attention to and which I dont just by the title of the thread which is unfortunate - because someone people just make bad titles. Therefore they tend to go without help from some of us that try just because their title was too much like some other flame-fest going on. However, back on your bold section: Because this is a Maemo forum, for the Maemo OS, I'm more forgiving of post after post of "N900 rules man!", even though I agree whole-heatedly it's useless, than I am of "N900 sucks a**!". The former, while useless, still has a positive environment and feel to it - the latter is simply negative, creates negative opinions in the readers, makes people defensive - and historically - causes flamewars. A lot more than the former, anyway. |
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Apparently the term "whining" is a victim of semantics. I'll get off the axle. ;)
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Finlly someone wrote what i had in mind for a while!!!
I realy like this phone but evry time i check recent topics i get more and more depresed because of the 'i want to complein to feel better' threat I think we have clear picture abut known issus so if you want to complain AGAIN abut something that IS KNOWN, please do it on difrent forum. I think i got to emotional, but it was really anoying me as well. Many thanks for all of you who work so hard to make this phone better dispite of all the compleins! |
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Wow, Goober, that actually made some sense! Congratulations.
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dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.mce /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.req_vibrator_pattern_activate string:PatternIncomingCall The above command is (mostly) harmless. Oh, and to make the phone stop doing that, make a call and then hang up immediately :) |
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In the case of the N900, I would promote some patience for fixes in such a new product too, though. It JUST came out. It would probably be advantageous for Nokia if it made it specifically known that certain fixes were on the way. Maybe. I don't know--I just don't see the same kind of aggressive anticipation for fixes in the Debian/Ubuntu/Red Hat world that you see in the Maemo realm, since those patches and releases occur more regularly and reliably. Do you think more people would be happier if Maemo went the way of releasing fix/security patches often and feature releases every 6 months? |
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I don't mind the complaining or whining as long as it is done in a spirit of community (i.e. what can be done to resolve this) and is not a complaint about a feature everyone knew was missing or not fully mature. To be honest, if you dropped 600 dollars on a device and didn't bother to find out that it doesn't support portrait mode then that's really on your shoulders...
What I love about this forum is when a thread really works towards solving an issue that CAN be solved. Look at the thread going on at the moment about trying to get bluetooth keyboards working with the N900. Rather than a endless whine about why it wasn't implemented, the guys on that thread are sharing information, finding fixes and trying to work towards ta solution...which I'm sure they will. This is what I find fascinating about this device and this forum. Rather than having to wait and hope that a manufacturer will release a firmware and address these issues (and more often than not they don't address the issues that are important to YOU), here you can see individuals working together in real time to come up with solutions and fixes. |
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See, I can't even remotely call THAT whining. And that's what I'm having trouble with apparently: the definition of that word. My usage of the word has always applied to something like "wahhh, why I can't have this! why didn't you do that? I want one! Now I don't want one. Pick me up! Put me down! Wahhhhh...." |
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That's it, I'm taking my laptop and going home.
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So the Op has been here for a month, and is an expert on who will be here in the future? He appears to be a sexist arse?
I have been "whining" about maemo for 4 years, and I do not anticipate that ending anytime soon. |
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Awesome.. now whose gonna put a GUI on it and release it to the repo ;) |
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If nobody whined, would everything be assumed that everything was ok and nothing needed improvement? Just wondering...
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Saying "Damn... email's not working. What can we do?" != Whine Saying "WHY WON'T MY EMAIL WORK!?! THIS SUCKS! YOU ALL SUCKS! I HATE YOU!!!" and then repeating it about 5 times.. == Whine. but like Texrat I should bow out.. it appears he and I are the only two that seem to be thinking of "whine" in the same light. |
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I think that some people who are labeled as winers are no such thing, and it's better to give people the benefit of the doubt. There are several cultures mixing here, not all comprehensible to the others. People have different styles of communication. The nice thing about these threads is that one has the option to not respond to threads one doesn't like. Maybe those who choose to participate in it will get something out of it. Those who choose not to participate will not be done much damage.
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Some threads get too much attention and others not enough. I think it would be a good idea to single out threads that are seen as models and highlight them somehow. Like, instead of carping about wining, how about focusing on the outstanding threads out there. I was interested in one example mentioned in this thread and would be interested in seeing more. The problem with Thanks is that they are focused on individual messages. That is good, but it's not enough. I would like to see something like Thanks for an entire thread, to all the participants.
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I'll repeat it once I stop crying in the corner. |
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Fight Fire with Fire! (no, it doesn't work.) |
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Yeah! Down with women!
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