Comments on: DDP — does it has any sense?

By: 2009 Timeline – Marcin Juszkiewicz

2009 Timeline – Marcin Juszkiewicz — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:57:45 +0000

[...] one is not usable.Got Sim.One board — EDB9301 moved to deprecated.Ordered Nokia N900 from DDP — got it after 4 weeks.Played a bit with Maemo5 SDK to check how Maemo5 look and how people [...]

By: marcinw

marcinw — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:47:03 +0000

I don’t want to be inpolite, but: If you’re happy from this decision, it’s OK for me – I don’t work for Nokia and it’s really not important for me. If you will ignore many critical comments from maemo.org (about DDP and N900 program), it’s OK for me too. But please note, that although N900 was and is generally good received by market (it’s visible – Nokia Poland doesn’t have anything in magazines :)), it’s device for geeks with problems in many opinions. When you will ignore it and ignore similar things for future Maemo devices, people definitely will stop thinking about it and buy rather Apple, Android,… It’s your choice :)

By: Ryan Abel

Ryan Abel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:46:27 +0000

DDP is only a part of the N900 device program. Nokia distributed dozens of loaner devices to developers and community contributors months before the Summit, and then distributed 300 more at the Summit. Quim's working on getting devices to more developers who were overlooked by the current groups with a wiki page. So, no, karma hasn't been the only metric used and more concrete, analytical "merit" based methods have been used to get devices into the hands of developers.

Has the program been perfect? No, but your arguments against it seem to stem mostly from spite.

By: marcinw

marcinw — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:23:59 +0000

Khertan,

Example of solution: making voting and pushing devices, where are required the most.

With karma it was enough to make a lot of posts (even totally not putting anything important), get some points and get device.

I'm sorry, but I think, that it wasn't done 200% professionally. Like some other things in the N900 program.

By: Khertan

Khertan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:25:09 +0000

"and 200+ karma is not the best gauge…"

But we didn't have a better one actually ...

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:41:10 +0000

Marcin: Maemo developer programs never were ideal -- this one at least does not limit attendants to be ones from few selected countries.

And I agree about small team thing.

By: denix

denix — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:22:49 +0000

considering N900 is already 2 months late, I wouldn't be surprised it costs $300-$400 by the time it actually ships... :(

developers and active people from community gets worse offer then normal users

and 200+ karma is not the best gauge...

By: marcinw

marcinw — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:43:57 +0000

In my opinion many things connected with N900 are strange. For example:

lack of some things (even when not used by 90% of users, are synonym of "modern" cellphone) and no official info, that it will be released later...
controversial methods of selecting people for discount program
some hardware solutions

Some things look like done by very small team without budget, not big company...

By: anonym

anonym — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:10:51 +0000

In Germany there is a required warranty of two years as far as I know….

By: Alex Atkin UK

Alex Atkin UK — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:11:20 +0000

Surely a 1 week warranty is not legal is EU anyway.

"Thanks to the new European Regulations, UK law now offers greater protection for consumers against products which develop faults within the first 6 months. The assumption is now that if it breaks down within this time period it cannot have conformed to the contract specification when purchased and you have the right to an automatic repair or replacement."