Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Good luck to him but I'm very sceptical about their product.

When I leave a device charging overnight and I unplug it in the morning, I like that it's fully charged and ready for the day. I wouldn't want to use a charger that switches itself off meaning that my device may have discharged maybe between 5%-10% when I want it to be at full capacity for the day ahead of me. The excess power used by trickle charging costs peanuts and gives me extra assurance should I need to use the device heavily that day.

I'll give them credit for at least trying to do something to tackle the world's energy problems, but to be honest, there are far more interesting projects in that area than this one.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Wait, Asmo has/needs a CEO ? I just thought its a single guy in a garage who is making the chargers/ordering their production.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Small 2/3 man teams like to have someone listed as 'CEO' as it looks good on your resume for other *actual* CEO roles in the future.

Plus the first rule of small tech business is to appear bigger than you actually are.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

It is pretentious though. Along with calling yourself a CEO in a country that traditionally has a difficult company structure, just to make yourselves sound cool and american. It's hard to trust companies like that.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Years ago, having been stuck in the same job for 10 years, I asked for a transfer to a new team that the company just thought of starting. During the interview, the Head Manager told me sorry, you can't transfer to that team, the team does not exist yet. It does not even have a manager!

So there. A manager defines a team. You can have a manager without a team but you can't have a team without a manager. A CEO is the same thing in a different shade of blue.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Anyone dared to order a Marc Dillon charger? Will be intresting to see if they can deliver this time. Apparently they teamed up with Lastu. ASMO has partnered with Lastu too, a Finnish company that makes wooden covers for phones.

If jolla refunded lastu for the tablet scam it Could be something that could be shipped with next jPhone. Looks pretty cool.

http://nordic.businessinsider.com/th...-built-2016-11

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

did you missed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Top65p4nyZY ?

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

That looked like a complete setup :D still good to see stuff be shipped to backers indeed. no wooden chargers...

Do you know if Lastu and Jolla are friends again?

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Good counter coderus - appreciated!

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

One, two, three... people powered!!

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

dave, use Jolla and the s word in one post again and you take a vacation.
Let me remind you that this is not your personal rantig or trolling blog, have to host that somewhere else I guess.
OTOH, I can't wait to kick your arse, so maybe, just go ahead, your choice really.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

I know it's not. If it was mine I would be much more friendly :)

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Just ordered one right now. :D

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

I ordered the ASMO charger during the Indiegogo campaign and my Jolla Tablet is still waiting for the charger to arrive. :D

The promised shipping date mentioned in their latest Indiegogo update is this week, but I am still positive that I will get my charger. :)

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BTW Marc Dillon supposably is using the Fairphone running Sailfish OS: Youtube video. :D

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

I had a Nokia E71 charger melting in the wall outlet one day in a hotel room.

Since it was Nokia quality I blamed the hotel. The staff stayed indifferent to my complaint.
Have been using the same charger with a molten hull without worries elsewhere for years after the incident.

Am I a target customer for ASMO charger to make this world a safer place?

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Marc Dillon left Jolla

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Get a grip. It might be obnoxious (to you) for someone to post about the same things over and over again, but he was asking a "valid" question. Would former relationships make new partnerships given their rocky past? Could Marc Dillon close a deal to get these chargers bundled with Jolla Phones in the future with Latsu being partners with ASMO?

RELAX.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

This is kinda crazy that 2016 chargers still draw to much current in standby.

It should be illegal for every charger on the market to draw any current when not charging anything.

In people should start use their brain when buy stuff. Do not buy stuff based on coolness and instead check specs how much current used when run or when idle.

Especially when buy those big LCD TV/Monitors and so on.

The future is save environment what ever idiots like Trump says...

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

I can easily answer that. There is no such thing as bad publicity. People have surprisingly short memory.

I give you an example. At one of my previous workplaces, the managers of two closely operating teams once gathered a small subset of both teams and put before them an ambitious task. Essentially they asked us to make a major overhaul of a crucial part of our software. In an environment where even small changes took months to realize, they asked us, "is it possible to make this happen in four weeks?"

Wee looked each other in the eyes, discussed pros and cons, and eventually concluded that yes, if we drop everything else and are left alone without interference, if would be just about doable.

And so the project started. The first thing I knew was one minor team leader, hitherto unknown and insignificant, took lead and started churning a document after document of this specification and that requirement and this whathaveyou... My part of the project was finished well ahead of the deadline. In fact all the coding was done faster than expected. But not so the PRDs, ERDs and God-knows-what-RDs.

In the end, it took over six months to finish a "four weeks" project.

So what happened to this rising start of a team leader? You guessed it. He was quiet for a while. But two years later, when the company had been reaping the benefits of the finished project for a while and management forgot that it took 6 times longer than it should to implement, he was praised as the hero and put forward as an example of how to lead successful projects. And of course promoted to lead more projects.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Takeaway: talk up a good game, deliver something... get praise a tad bit later when the memory of failures have started to subside. Repeat.

Noted.

Re: Marc Dillon left Jolla
 

Well there is still room - you can become foreign secretary in the U.K. or even President somwhere across the Atlantic after messing things up ;-)