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borderwave2 I hear your point Bigman2, but would you not agree that the lengths to which people are going to correct a RIM's mistakes are a bit shocking. I'm only mad a RIM here, not the people like sith who are working their butts off to help us out. Why can't they make a checklist of every feature, BT audio, accelerometer speed, etc. and test each OS against it. Don't release a firmware version until all those requirements are fulfilled? Doesn't sound hard to me.
No, because as many have said, a lot of the hybrid efforts are simply "because they can."
And technically the leaked builds are just that, leaked. They aren't official in any way, and RIM would really rather they not leak. Also, before anyone puts on their tinfoil hat, claiming that RIM is secretly leaking them, that idea has been gone over numerous times and shown to be completely false in numerous ways.
If we had an official build that had some of the issues of the leaked builds, that would be another story.
And of course it's easy to say things like making a check list, but that really just doesn't work with software development. Everything is interconnected, so changing something here, could potentially have issues with some seemingly unrelated bit of code. People look at the Storm, and just see this tiny little device; they don't really take the time to appreciate the complexity of the device.
It's like I said in some other thread. How many people here understand the base theory of radio based communication? How many people understand how you convert an electrical signal into sound via a speaker? How many people here can handle a soldering iron, or know the difference between a resistor and a capacitor? It's an amazing bit of technology we take completely for granted. Which isn't to say that it couldn't use with some improvements on the software side, but you should take a minute to step back and marvel that it works at all given everything that has to come together.