I had the misfortune of being tasked with developing a tech demo for an embedded version of Tizen for one of the Tizen stakeholders. Despite the insistence by t

I had the misfortune of being tasked with developing a tech demo for an embedded version of Tizen for one of the Tizen stakeholders. Despite the insistence by the client that Tizen 2.0 was demo-ready, it quickly became clear that it was in extremely early alpha stages and nowhere near ready for even a tech demo. The networking stack was extremely buggy and would fail with too many concurrent connections. The web runtime was dog slow and doing a simple DOM insertion would cause the system to lock up for up to 20 seconds. All the while we were promised that a better version was "coming soon" and would be ready for the scheduled demonstration. Of course, this never happened, the demo was called off, some business people lost their jobs and I quit the company. Overall, it was a massive embarrassment for everyone involved.