Product Idea: USB Flash Drives

[barray]

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.

Good point.

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.

Given the current trend of things, I have a pessimistic outlook. On the plus side, hopefully it gives the world an opportunity to reorganize their supply chains so that they rely less on shipping stuff all around the world - which is not particularly sustainable.

I'd suggest that we keep the discussion here, at least for now. 

It'll take a while to set something up anyway... I really want to be able to group discussions so that they make more logical sense, I think so far we have the greater subjects of 'software', 'hardware' and 'production'. Then for each of those is several important discussions that need to happen. Long threads tend to result in lost information in the long run.

That way, if we get even one more community member onboard the project for the open storage device, it would be great.

I hope so. The other option is that we post updates back to this forum to incorporate feedback from the community. People post about significant software updates for example, I don't think it's unreasonable as long as we don't spam and the device still relies on the BL602.

Also, who knows, maybe we'll eventually get some feedback from Pine64, although we should move forward without any expectations.

It's now been almost a month of hoping for some feedback. I'm not going to hold my breath - I have no idea what we have to do to get some attention.