Ah, a misunderstanding, glad we agree. IMO Mozilla should have used at this stage just existing devices (and encourage porting!) rather then come up with these "developer" phones and the like. Just asking for extra trouble on a platform which is still green.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:35 PM, jezra <[email protected]> wrote: > My comment wasn't directed at your judgment. I was actually agreeing > with you and I feel that Mozilla did an extremely poor job in vetting > ZTE as a 'partner'. > > As an owner of a ZTE Open, my best advise would be to avoid the ZTE and > get a phone from a company that seems to care. If the rollout of 1.1 is > any indication, get a geeksphone; they've had 1.1 for a few months > and, from what I can tell, they haven't had anti-consumer locks on > the devices that they manufacture. > > jezra > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:18:09 +0300 > andu novac <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can you elaborate, which part is "extremely poor" in my judgement? The >> fact that we have this exchange on this list should at least tell you >> that I am both interested in this OS and also aware of its current >> state/problems from people who actually work on it. I also installed >> it on my phone but since I didn't get any usable help on the power >> button issue I gave up on that. Also the fact that I was willing to >> spend 80E on a less then minimally attractive device just for its OS >> should also tell you something (yeah, maybe this is the poor judgement >> you were referring to). But what do you say about the "partners" who >> market a phone that bricks itself while upgrading and instead of >> providing service or replacement they want to sell you a new one? >> >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:12 PM, jezra <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Extremely poor judgment when vetting "partners" >> > >> > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 12:08:47 -0700 (PDT) >> > an <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> "Unfortunately, ZTE refuses any support (even if you would pay for >> >> the reflash!) in this case and redirects all requests to the eBay >> >> seller who proposes to send me a new device for 80% of the price. >> >> Sorry guys, but this is absolutely unacceptable!" >> >> >> >> Thanks for this, I was planing to get a zte open "developer device" >> >> shitty as it is. >> >> >> >> But don't blame zte, they never claimed to not being there just for >> >> your money, blame Firefox execs who rushed out there with a barely >> >> working OS on top of garbage hardware. >> >> _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing >> >> list [email protected] >> >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> > > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
