Sure, so goes the common line. In reality, more transparent communications would mostly be at the expense of fluffy tweets, not really any other work.

How long would it take to pen an honest the goodness short, informative update on some topic. Not long, that's for sure. In that SIM card holder case, it probably took them longer - as in more time away from that work you talk of - to formulate how to express themselves without providing an actual explanation.

But more importantly, whenever that lack of comms results later in some PR crisis, that will take time away from more important work. The fk_lx case surely has taken some time away from a lot of people and I think that too could have been handled better by addressing it earlier. I think it would be wise to ratchet up the transparency a little, so that less issues would rise to the crisis map and thus take time away from real work.

Now, I'm not suggesting not paying any attention to how or what is communicated. I'm just following jalyst's suggestion to notch back the fluffy stuff a little and replace it with a little more timely brutal honesty:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=29

I am neither entertained or care at all about myself in this thread. I would like to see Jolla succeed and as part of that I've made the attempt to explain what and why I suggest - and why I found jalyst's suggestion (surely he is a neutral voice in this?) a compelling one.