Just got a comment from Quim Gil on my previous {{post id=”nokia-marketing” text=”post”}} about Nokia strategy. I think it’s worth giving more space to what he says.
Quim’s comment:
I understand your frustration but note that it is caused partly because of early delivery to developers (Chinook SDK) and contributors (codes). We could have done like in the N800 program and let pass first hardware, distribution and discounts enabled in shops. But this caused confusion on contributors not knowing whether to go and buy or wait to get a discount.
This time everybody knew in advance about the discounts, independently from hardware – distribution – shops schedules. If this turns to be a problem then we must to be more conservative next time. Delivering the same transparency on hardware – distribution – shops then with oss development is out of scope.
About us telling dates before having then confirmed, let’s not forget that we did so this year with the 770 HE and, well, it didn’t work out. Please understand if we don’t forget about some of the lessons learned. This is why we are “silently” working on having confirmed dates, an exercise that involves more parties and variables than you probably think. The day we have those dates you will be the first ones to know in maemo.org.
And my answer:
First of all, thank you (as always) for answering. I want to clarify something, at least from my very own point of view. I’m not upset by not getting an N810 anytime soon. My thoughts were about Nokia’s (again, not Maemo’s) strategy. I mean, it doesn’t make any sense, to me, releasing a device to end users a month or two before than releasing it to developers.
Michael pointed out in one of the previous comments that pushing out to developers pre-production devices could have been too much, exposing too many bugs, that’s true. But it’s also true that releasing production devices to developers first could have helped poiting out more bugs, because of the “advanced-user” nature of those developers.Again, beside being somehow sad having to wait until the new year to get my N810, I am not upset. I am grateful to you and everyone at Maemo for the great job you did and you are doing.
And as Eduard said, I don’t care if N810 will be released in the next weeks or in the next momth. That would simply nice, from a *strategic* point of view, to know when. Moreover if Nokia released a press communicate announcing N810 availability on shelves. Just strategy.
Also, I don’t think you did anything wrong in giving out codes so early. I strongly believe you did the right thing, from a community point of view, and Maemo is *also* a community. I strongly believe you don’t have to change anything in this process.
I also understand, as I said more than once, that what’s going on with Nokia/Maemo is something completely new and different.
A kinda big company {trying to deal | dealing} with an open source project and community.
I perfectly understand that’s not an easy task, both have their distinctiveness and peculiarities, they need to be put in harmony.
Not an easy task. But a great challeng for sure, both from Nokia’s/business and Maemo’s/Open Source point of view.
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