Thread: N900 shipping delayed
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2009-10-23 , 20:21
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Originally Posted by w00t View Post
Bugs and eyecandy are two totally different things. Would *you* be interested in a device that doesn't work? I know that a lot of people really wouldn't be interested.
Of course, I've read enough already to know that regular users are expecting an iphone-killer, instead of a linux-kill'em'all-for-developers phone.. Because of this, I think that both things are important to n900 - in all previews I read so far, the most important thing to mention was xvid replay, widgets, smooth transitions, nice GUI. Not linux kernel, not debian, not open source, not very nice system architecture... This ain't the ideal universe for geeks, I guess


Originally Posted by w00t View Post
I know you're probably not such an ardent forums reader based on this post, but I am. The real situation (as reported by Peter earlier in this thread IIRC) is pretty much what that said: issues (and feedback) has been given from the people with N900s now, and is being addressed before release for obvious reasons.
I'd very like to spend hours reading forums, I do read many threads in this one - but.. Sadly I don't have that much time, wish i had - thanks for info...

Originally Posted by w00t View Post
bugs.maemo.org, as far as I know, is the place to go. Knock yourself out.
yep, and without some visualisation (e.g. opened+critical vs. closed bugs graphs) it's hardly helpful to predict the finalization date All of this could've been arange by nokia, once they commited to openness...


Originally Posted by w00t View Post
Giving a timeframe probably won't happen, in case they can't meet it. Obviously, that's just going to make more people annoyed. For the relevant open components, viewing changelogs may well be possible
It's too late for that already anyway... n900 will be probably "complete" in a weeks in one way or another.. we could just have been spared these last 2 months, and reading of 1000 posts long thread(s) about device shipment (which I stopped following after a few posts, thankfully)... that's all..

without some summarization (like done with e.g. linux kernel or KDE releases), changelogs for individual subprojects are also not too helpful...


Originally Posted by w00t View Post
Arguably, your expectations of a perfect company are a tad unrealistic, and your knowledge of what's going on isn't quite the best either, though I'm not disagreeing that some of the logistics of this seem a bit shaky, but I'm not overly surprised at that either. The N900 launch is being done rather differently to any other device launch I've seen.
unrealistic - yes. Low knowledge - probably, but not unlike a lot of people in already mentioned "shipping threads" .)

As a many-many-years-linux-using guy, I'm very much into helping spread maemo (I've even started moving my pretty-widely-used project from winmobile to qt), but I really can't spend many hours daily searching for new forums, mailinglists, bugzilla reports etc. I respect you for your commitment because you can.

What I would is a blog, like dog.kde.org.. Now there are many blogs, and for a maemo-new-comer, it's pretty hard to 1) find them, 2) know, which of the owners are real nokia-developers/credible writers, and which are fanboys.. Oh, I'm getting offtopic, stop.