Thread: well respected reviewer "eldar" throwing caution to N900
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2009-09-25 , 21:09
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
You are running beta snapshots which did not pass QA. They are not meant for end users or preview. You do not have the final hardware; you have a prototype. God knows which prototype, you're certainly not open about it. 0% of customers will care about bugs which you experienced in [this] beta software or hardware; they only care about the final product.

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I disagree (hence my earlier post about if any company really wanted to pursue a case for damages to namebrand). Customers in general aren't informed and won't look more into depth into things like this. It's kinda like the effect the media has on science. Also why I stressed that it's important to point out these things (firmware, hardware (is it a prototype, finalized?).

You wouldn't review an alpha or beta version of Ubuntu or a beta version of Windows 7 as if it was a finalized build of it. Hence also my (somewhat poor I guess) analogy earlier.

Originally Posted by livefreeordie View Post
Am I the only one who really doesn't care where he got his device? This isn't a police state, and if someone broke their NDA to give it to him, I have better things to be morally outraged about.
It's not as much where he got the device, as is the device official, Is it up to date? All these things are important when you do a review. For example, take an alpha version of Firefox compared to the RC of Firefox.
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
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