openphoenux review on mobilejournal.net

[Boudewijn]

On Wednesday 31 October 2012 20:50:02 francesco.devita at mailoo.org wrote:
> Il 31/10/2012 15:42, urodelo ha scritto:
> > Reading such kind of reviews disappoint me.
> 
> It disappoints me too, and it is not the first not accurate at all and
> generalist review that I read (I suppose it comes immediately after this
> one [1], in italian). What makes me angry it's that the authors do not
> get enough information nor they get a direct contact with the developers
> if they not are owners of a GTA0X. The result is a bad article, they do
> not even know what they're talking about, and they give to the people a
> bad idea of the GTA04.
I agree: I can't say I'm happy with the contents of either review. On the 
other hand, there _are_ people seeing those pages. No such thing as bad 
publicity, they say. 

For sure, there are many libre software users who (still) never heard of 
Openmoko. I can even imagine not all Neo-owners know of OpenPhoenix. 

> I don't know if it is better to ignore those bad blogs or to do
> something to give people the right perception of the GTA04 and of our
> community.
That is the most important aspect that's missing, I think: the community. 
Members of open source projects more or less take the community for granted 
(projects without usually die, anyway). Buyers of mobile gadgets don't have 
"community" or "fair trade" on their checklist: it consists of GHz, GBs, cores 
and gens, and a smallest possible grand total at the bottom.

I do think though, that the race for the bottom is not sustainable. Bigger 
numbers can still bring our price to a lower range, but with resources 
depleting on one hand and (hopefully) improving standards of living elsewhere 
it's hard to keep prices of consumer products falling as they have been doing 
for years now.

Best regards,

Boudewijn
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