Product Idea: USB Flash Drives

[dsimic]

My only concern would be that getting someone doing the final testing remotely at the required level of quality and attention would end up costing the same (or even much more) as shipping the devices around the world more than once.  Plus, in that case the entire order fulfillment system, including the customer support, would have to be performed on a remote site as well, which would probably become really messy really fast.

Yeah, I think it's only viable if we have somebody there as part of the team willing to do such a thing, otherwise the benefits die off real fast as you suggest.

Let's just remember huge QA issues that Pine64 had with one of the PineBook Pro batches.  As a result of the pandemic, nobody from Pine64 was able to be present at the China factory and oversee the manufacturing and QA for that batch, which resulted in a really big mess.  Many people received their PineBook Pros that were faulty in all kinds of different ways.  AFAIK, those faults were resolved under the warranty, which was a good move from Pine64, but it must have caused them a big financial hit.

Best estimates suggest another 3 weeks (if all goes well). If cargo starts falling off or they damage the ship pulling it out - all bets are off. As if there were not already part delays, this will surely add to the problem.

It looks really bad, very much like the definition of clogged-up bottleneck.   Let's hope that the rescue operation will go according to plan.

   

So I think we operate under the assumption that we won't have any input from them. I guess the next step will be to move this discussion to somewhere more robust. I will checkout the possibility of setting up a forum tonight and see how that goes...

I'd suggest that we keep the discussion here, at least for now.  That way, if we get even one more community member onboard the project for the open storage device, it would be great.  Also, who knows, maybe we'll eventually get some feedback from Pine64, although we should move forward without any expectations.