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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
I think some people are making way too much out of the pre-order and initial shipment issues. If people go back to the ordering process at the end of November, they were told "Order before December 2nd and you'll get your phone in December". That was the promise and for the vast majority that is what happened.

Yes there was a big gap in the middle when people didn't seem to get any and yes DNA had them in store before some pre-orders shipped. But ultimately, they shipped.

Obviously something went wrong in that process but really, cut them some slack - 1st product, new processes, new Magento based store (not the most reliable IME), pre-Xmas with overworked staff and international postal services. They seemed to have worked like mad to get back on track.

Jolla's communication was maybe too transparent. They perhaps should have just kept to their " in December" promise when asked and next time no sequential order numbers ;-)

Or maybe I'm just way more patient?
Again, absolutely nothing wrong with the issues Jolla faced. Easy to understand them all.

Except the part where they chose to stay pretty much silent throughout, not offering any real information. If they were "too transparent" earlier, they certainly weren't transparent through out the process.

Jolla was perfectly within their rights not to inform the customers. But that means the lost an opportunity to respect the customer through transparency and choosing a less route of lesser values.

It is hard for me to see what downsides there would have been to being more transparent about the process. Maybe it was an ego thing, someone would have felt embarrassed to share the woes?

That would have been very unfortunate, because problems for a startup are very understandable and it is easier to deal with them from a customer-side if you have solid info on where things are progressing.
 

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