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Hello everybody, I hope this thread is not taken wrongly, given the title calling is only calling for Canadians who qualified and are now waiting for their free PlayBook.
With that said, I'm just curious to know how many from Canada have received their Free PlayBook device? If you are happily playing with yours already, can you share a word or two about your first impression of the device! Any pics/vids of you un-boxing your PlayBook
is also welcomed.04-16-11 06:19 PM - Its not odd, truly its of no real surprise to me any more with RIM. There's no excuse for this at all on their part. I could even understand if it was a single application that feel through the cracks, but I have a handful approved now.
Its poor developer relations. And why does it make me so upset? Because I work my **** off to develop quality BlackBerry aplications in a time where RIM needs as many developers as they can get and whenever I need anything from them Im lucky to get a standard form reply. At this point its not so much about getting a free playbook, it's the way they treat their developers in general. I've bit my tongue for so long when its come to this stuff, hoping they'd change, but I just can't any longer.
If I may borrow some quotes from the RIM Dev forums:
Is anyone hearing back from [email protected]?
Like a goof, I typed my email in wrong on the order form, and wanted it to be updated. There's no recourse for someone to correct their info (in the event an address was entered wrong, or moving, typos, etc), except for emailing them.
But I haven't heard back and it's been well over a week. What gives? Is RIM and their vendors going back to 14 day response times?For a while I was misguided by assuming they'd care but they don't. They have their apps which is all that really mattered here.It's another thing noted in my growing list of "Shocking Things About RIM", that they appear not to have made the slightest effort to communicate this in any way to us, when it looks like it should have been pretty easy to do, with many benefits. Another puzzle to ponder.Kinda let down by RIM. After all we "developers" who are the ones build up the PB software library in appworld thus far and should be the ones getting the PB first. Just imagine without the "free" PB giveway how many PB apps do you really think they have on launch day? a few dozen...Agreed. Especially harsh to hear that they were handing them out to people on the April 14 event to people who haven't done anything really. Everyone here has spent many, many hours and we're still waiting.So thanks RIM, cause this is beyond us just not getting our hardware, it's about you dragging us down while the majority of us our doing our best to keep you afloat.RIM obviously doesn't actually care about getting any apps or supporting their developers. If they had, they'd have had a 1.0 SDK out by now, mailed out the playbooks, or at least made ANY kind of indication as to when either of those two things would be available.And one of my personal favsIt's just disrespectful of RIM to treat their developers this way when they should realize that without the developers, NO ONE is going to buy the playbook. It's already getting slagged in reviews because it's missing applications -- do they really think that dawdling on supporting the only people who have demonstrated a commitment to improving the situation is going to make it any better??
I could post many many more, but I think this gets the point across.Whoever has the job of enforcing the Cone of Silence at RIM will be getting a nice bonus this year, for excellent performance on the job.04-16-11 07:32 PM
One of them is actually thinking about buying one on tuesday! (which you can always return, or sell or trade, once you get your free one)
