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Originally Posted by pango View Post
Too much of their "openness" and "transparency" is actually just marketing fluff and nothing more. Difficult or uncomfortable topics are rarely discussed even semi-openly. Given how many Jolla people still roam these places, it is especially noteworthy how only silence or platitudes meet certain topics, while others have a bunch of Jolla people cheering on in any given social media.

Anyone starting a new, open FOSS phone company, maybe you should tag-line it: "We're unlike Jolla."

Jolla, be unlike Jolla from now on. Please. Culture of openness isn't hard, it is just a very deliberate choice.
Unfortunately things are not as easy as you think they are. There are investor relationships, NDA's, ODM, ... to take into account. Also not all Jolla sailors are very eloquent (I am definitely not one of those eloquent ones) and that makes that things are often misunderstood (or twisted by some people). So people are very wary of creating expectations, as it is a lot easier to say something than do it. We are all very busy, which means that we don't know all what is going on everywhere. So while there might be Jolla sailors around, they will have to go around and ask other sailors what the situation about question x is. And even then it is hard to know what you can tell or not. Some topics also get silence because we honestly don't know or cannot give a definite answer as things might depend a lot on external factors out of our (direct) control. The battery availability is one such thing for example. I don't disagree there is room for improvement but things like that take time. And even then, there will always be people who want every last detail and if we would go indulge that we would just be answering questions instead of developing and fixing bugs.

Last edited by Philippe; 2014-08-26 at 18:21. Reason: clarify I am not an eloquent sailor
 

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