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They brought this upon themselves. Their progress updates on the tablet project have been consistently late, vague, and they withheld information from the backe
by kogepathic 11y ago
They brought this upon themselves. Their progress updates on the tablet project have been consistently late, vague, and they withheld information from the backers for as long as possible. They didn't even change the pre-order page when it was clear they missed the promised shipment date.
Example: their press release about debt restructuring was released on Friday (20 November), but there was no explanation to IGG backers until this post on 24 November.
So, yes, they are in financial difficulties. But in the process of developing the tablet, they completely lost all credibility to the community (at least those of us who aren't Jolla apologists) when they didn't communicate openly to backers, and consistently missed deadlines they themselves set (e.g. shipping, communicating delays, requests for details).
Guys, a tip: "open" means that you have a dialogue with your backers. Thus far, "open" to you means that you communicate late, vaguely, and with absolutely no community interaction. This includes barely answering community questions in your blog posts (see: https://blog.jolla.com/tablet_schedule_aptoide_store/ https://blog.jolla.com/tablet_schedule_aptoide_store/ ) where you spend most of the blog post spewing marketing shit and not answering the fundamental question people had been asking, which was: hey, where the hell is my tablet and why aren't you giving us straight answers to questions?
In my view, it is irresponsible bordering on criminal to continue accepting pre-orders from people when the schedule is wrong, and you don't provide any details on the schedule when asked.