Thread: Jolla Tablet Refunds (latest developments)
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nodevel is offline nodevel
2015-10-11 , 21:07
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#1326
Originally Posted by skanky View Post
I'm waiting for the first review to mention OpenRepos. I'm not expecting it to say that they're the cure-all or even for everyone, but it would be good to know that a reviewer has done enough homework to at least mention that it's an option for some of the application gaps.
What you're saying is that there were many i486 compatible apps at OpenRepos at the time of the review?

He claims to have used the tablet for several weeks, so even if he discovered Warehouse/OpenRepos when he received the tablet, I would say there would have been close to 0 apps for the tablet there (except for a few noarch Python apps that launch the QML files directly).


The fact that we see such reviews now seems quite odd. It is quite a good review (at least UI and HW wise), but I don't understand why they sent out review devices at that time.

I don't have enough information to judge why that happened, but I think that ideally, they should have followed one of these two schedules:
  1. Send tablets with a preview - 1.1.9.x - version to developers (in a transparent process) and release the SDK to everyone.
  2. Finish the final 2.0 version.
  3. Send the tablets with the final version to reviewers.
  4. Send the tablets to customers.
or
  1. Send tablets with a preview - 1.1.9.x - version to developers (in a transparent process) and release the SDK to everyone.
  2. Send the first batch with the preview OS version to (early) backers.
  3. Finish the final 2.0 version.
  4. Send the tablets with the final version to reviewers.
  5. Send the tablets to the rest of the customers.


But it seems that they have been doing this instead:
  1. Send the tablets with a preview version to reviewers, testers, and a small group of randomly chosen developers along with non-public SDK release.
  2. Push the preview version to all phones and release the SDK to the public.
  3. Send the tablets to early backers with the preview OS version.
  4. Finish the final 2.0 version.
  5. Send the rest of the tablets to customers with the final 2.0 version.


Maybe I'm making too much of it and it was just a mistake, but I think that sending the device to reviewers with a preview version of the OS in a moment when there can't be any 3rd party native apps around, as (some limited number of) developers just got it as well... ...is just a weird decision.

The fact that the developer program wasn't transparent and there were no rules or no way to apply surely didn't help either.
Last edited by nodevel; 2015-10-11 at 21:19.