-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Gareth France wrote:
Lets assume that every minute of replying takes away from potential debugging/improvement time on Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Phone; Oh well, I guess it's important. > Is it just me or have Canonical chosen ...a manufacturer to help get a small number of devices out there, to beta the Ubuntu Phone in public and ensure that developers have some real hardware to develop apps on? Yes that looks like the case. > someone mentioned that the free case Oh, my, cases: I appreciate that the unexpected freebie, that wasn't originally expected, has now unexpected not turned up. As far as I can see there isn't any stock to unexpectedly send one out: Duo Case Ubuntu Edition: "Availability: Out of stock" http://store.bqreaders.com/en/duo-case-ubuntu > as only the first buyers Based on the numbers apparently sold in the first *minutes* I'm unsurprised that an order placed an hour later wasn't the first. So even if somebody wanted to mail out an extra unexpected freebie case, it's going to likely mean scheduling a batch run, then setting up the injection moulding machines, running a batch, shipping them halfway around the world, and posting out again. I'm sure when 3D printers rule the world such real world logistics caused by the annoying limitations of physics might be avoidable. Why not take it as a challenge and make/adapt one! We'll all be waiting six weeks for spools of nylon and binding resin to arrive instead. > The date was confirmed as within the first fortnight of March. What we need is Amazon-designed Supersonic fusion-powered delivery drones that can delivery from one side of the planet to everyone's front door in under three minutes while ensuring that acceleration and decceleration G values remain within specification at all times and the packaging doesn't get scratched. For no more than a fiver. > Sans case!! Imagine the camity if a case had arrived without a device. There'd be nowhere to insert the SIM! (At least it wouldn't need charging up). > These guys could not organise a piss up in a brewery! So "these guys" took an order, processed, made some hardware on the other side of the world, sealed it, shipped halfway around the world to your doorstep, complete with a cute box, and software, and in *a month*. Seems truely amazing for a product that didn't exist before. And yet, *three months on* a person called Paul is still waiting for a person called Gareth to run and email a bunch of test results that would take about 15 minutes to run. And all so that the person called called Paul could have the personal privilege of spending a few more hours reverse-engineering embedded file-formats, for the benefit of the person called Gareth. > further development of the app selection, ...If only there was a plan in place to get a select few of these devices out to the developers who *really need them to make apps*? > we all knew that before it was announced didn't we? One would hope so. -Paul I've been more than a little sarcastic, I hope it invokes some thinking about priorities and motiviations. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFVED+Zc444tukM+iQRArPFAKCReU+6nFVMDuuIHgOAXoKVq2MTeQCfb/WS vrAYx90PxRFpKTh9BbmME1I= =jFUE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
