Thread: N900 device program / developer, promoter discount?
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2009-10-16 , 08:50
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
We haven't chosen developers but community applications and features that would be cool to have in Extras for pure end users by sales start.

So the discussion is not whether Developer X should have got a device by now or not, but whether Application Y should have been helped by now.
Makes perfect sense :-) Clearly improvement from previous device launches. It is great that this was possible. Personally I am surprised how big difference it already made. Plenty of cool and useful apps are ready now and the much needed buzz is there too which is great.

Originally Posted by qgil View Post
We also gave priority of projects that have done some homework during the Fremantle pre-releases .... and an estimate of the current availability of the lead developer to do more Fremantle work.
Makes perfect sense too. Both in general sense and
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it also makes perfect sense in my case. I would wholeheartedly agree (when stripping the "before it was cool" part ;-) that the characterization above hits a nail and explains why I shouldn't have early NDA prototype. And I knowingly passed that chance and 'haven't done any homework' since I really think others could make better use of those early devices and I can wait for regular developer program. Bootmenu or custom kernels are really not cool enough and for ScummVM I don't need the device.

What changed this is the summit device surprise (so we now have plenty of users including newbies that can kill their device in creative ways and need reflash) and the issue with 256MB rootfs size and whole /opt-ification mess. I feel I could take part in both of those issues but without device I can only sit and enjoy the firework

Still of course It does not mean that I should get one, It just explains why I feel I am missing the device right now and 'looking forward to pandora' or waiting for developer program does not help much now But it is not a big deal really so let's move on
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Looking forward to know what exactly would you have done better.
There is always something :-) In this case giving 300 devices to summit attenders made some serious imbalance. It was great idea, excellent realization, and made a big splash (and will make next summit much bigger ) but for some people going to summit is sadly not an option. To even up this imbalance the developer program should have been arranged sooner. As worst case it should have been announced on the summit but I don't see the reason why it couldn't be started even earlier to close the gap between summit attenders and other developers as much as possible. This is IMO exactly what could have been done better.
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