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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Copernicus, I hope that even you admit that the info they had provided was half info at the very best. Partial information only leads to speculations.
Well, yeah. I think speculations will occur in pretty much any scenario, but yeah, Jolla's efforts at transparency have perhaps not been quite as, hmm, "professional" as they could have been...

There are only two proper ways to deal with things like that: full disclosure (100%) or no info at all (0%).
I guess you could have some success at putting out something like 30%, as long as you state up front that that you're only giving 30%, and avoid some of the angry response that we've seen...

But still, I'm rather amazed at just how vehemently folks are complaining about what seems to my eyes as a standard engineering process. So yeah, I've gotta say that the reward Jolla has received for even their limited amount of transparency has pushed me into the 0% camp.

Now we are talking! If they had released all this info as and when those things were happening, that would have been an entirely different song! That would have been something to write home about and praise them for openness and all that jazz.
I'm not so sure. I could just imagine the angry catcalls from folks complaining that they had no justification in trying to optimize the display, or that they were idiots when the yellow splotches appeared, or that it was the end of the world when they tried to switch from the eDP to MIPI interface. These are questions that their engineering team must have agonized over, and fielding questions from the public about it would surely have led to yet further delays.

I think I prefer this sort of transparency, where the information is provided once the engineering is complete. (Heck, I would have preferred them to wait until after the final testing is done; if their tests bring up further problems at the end of this week, we're going to see yet another storm of criticism for what is an entirely valid and standard step in the process...)