[Ornate TrueSmart] chrisvor:
Clearing things up

Hi, guys, Christos Vorkas here, fellow backer of the TrueSmart, and one of the two assigned Senior Moderators at the forums.

I don't want to start a fight here, but I need to clarify some things and state my personal position on this.

I am an APP developer, not a ROM developer. I have been a member in XDA since 2007, since I am very keen in trying out different custom roms that you rom developers create.

If you have read any of my posts in the Omate forum, you should know by now that i have the UTMOST RESPECT to ROM developers, as I have stated this MANY times.....

Having read here though, all the different posts regarding the forum, and especially the ones that you refer to the mods, i.e. including myself, I felt the need to post here to clarify some stuff. This will be my FIRST and my LAST post regarding this.

Loki, my friend, I understand your frustration, but firstly I need to correct something that you said. You said a couple of pages ago here on XDA, that you "left/got kicked".... I want you to please correct this statement, what actually happened is that you expressed the need to leave, I sent you a message to ask you to wait for the official response from Omate, you told me you would wait 2 days, and after a few hours you REMOVED YOURSELF from the mod group. *NOBODY* kicked you out, and actually EVERYBODY wanted you to stay as we all feel that having a ROM developer in the team is a MAJOR advantage, especially one that was SO EXCITED about the TrueSmart.

Next

Kuronosan, I suppose I must know you with another name in the forum. You said "One of them told Loki that firmware developers are a minority therefore who cares" That is VERY incorrect.. Nobody said that, one of the mods said that "Installing Custom ROMS is not something an 'Average Joe' does, so this discussion about Custom ROMS is not something the 'Average Joe' would care right now". This is totally different to what you understood it was said.

Guys, Omate and us "moderators", DO APPRECIATE VERY MUCH the importance of ROM Developers, and of APP Developers. We do understand that without Custom ROM Developers, the lifetime of a device is shortened. Not all users will install custom roms, but for those that do, it's a MUST.

But you need to understand, and I'm sure you do that:

(a) Omate cannot release source code for something that they are not authorised to do, and they are NOT to be blamed for that. The same thing applies to all devices that use the same chips

(b) Omate cannot say in public certain things. Trust me when I say this, there are some things that we might "discover" on our own....

As I said above, I do not wish to start a fight with you guys. You have my great appreciation and respect. I don't know what each of you has done in the past and this is not why I show my respect. Any developer has my respect, as I am also a long-time developer (although just starting out in Android), and I know what it means.

Please do not judge the moderators by things that are said trying to answer an "angry mob" as you say, but not being able to do so...

We are just backers like you, we have a single point of contact in Omate, who has to contact different people in different timezones inside Omate to get some answers. And this, at this time of product development, has proven to be quite a task.... And I believe that this is sincere, not a trick.

Thank you for reading this. Peace to all !