[maemo-developers] N810 Maemo Program/USA Store

[From: Owen Williams]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:38 -0200, Rafael Proença wrote:
> Come on people!
> Is it frustrating? yes, it is. But if this is what takes to get a
> top-level device for less than half price it is being sold out there,
> I do not think that any one should complain, after all you did not
> signed a contract neither Nokia owns anything to you. Is it fair?
> maybe not, but what can we do? 
> 
> I think the best we can do is just wait (it is not like we had many
> choices, do we?) although it is painful. 

Yes, but nokia has now sent out an email threatening that if I don't use
my code by a specific date, it will expire.  It's as if they're
threatening to take it out on me because they couldn't get their act
together, or because I don't click "refresh" on the shop often enough to
catch it when it comes in stock.  Nokia should either guarantee stock in
shops by a certain date, or push the expiration date of the code by at
least a few months.

I trust that nokia's intentions are good, and that they are doing
everything they can to get the devices out and into the hands of
developers, but their communication on this issue has been extremely
poor.  One frustrated blogger and a couple confusing emails are not
enough.

owen