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#2357
Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
But now they have an official homepage which is covered with random Twitter postings. Gee - why not include some baby pictures too, and maybe some cute cat videos?
But if the whole SDK/dev/alliance story isn't ready to be fully presented yet, why should it be more substantive than it currently is?
Besides, I was of the impression that it's more the user-facing site, whereas sailfishos.org is geared more for the devs.
I do agree though, I'm not a fan of the microblogging/social_media centric approach, many devs in their tiny team are engaging in "group hugs" with followers almost as much as work.

Secondly, their Slush video presentations were very amateurish. I'm not talking just about the one that showed the back of a guy's head most of the time. They were all technically bad (text difficult to read), and obviously inadequately rehearsed. The only one that had even a little actual information in it was the SDK presentation, but the first speaker could not get his laptop display projected (of course, it's sad they were making their video by recording a projected image in the first place). This event was supposed to be Jolla's big coming out event, and they didn't even bother running through the talks beforehand, to check that everyone's AV aids would work.
This was entirely the venue, it was a joke, I watched many other start-ups, not only Jolla, same sad amateurism.
It's the nature of that format/show, everything is done very ad-hoc, so it all comes out looking very unslick (no pun intended).
Some videos came out much later with better angles, so one could actually read/see most of the stuff on the big display, will dig em up for you if you want.

Third, as far as I can tell, they still have not released an SDK.
Yeah starting to wonder there, but really it's unfair to get too hypercritical there, yet...

The jolla.com site has no technical information of any kind.
The Sailfish site has the helpful instruction that "Building Qt-Creator is not easy; getting Designer built too can be hard. ".
The Sailfish site suggests that one enquire on IRC channels to get help building an SDK.
Sailfish site is clearly meant to be the dev-centric site, that's where most useful info. will appear, gradually...

Why can't these guys, after MONTHS of working on it, just make a virtual machine that we can download for a development environment?
I've done that myself for other SDKs. It is not hard. It's starting to look like this is yet another distro that has no interest in outside developers.
Did you watch the entire SDK presentation, this WAS covered....

Last edited by jalyst; 2012-12-04 at 02:19. Reason: typo