[Q] CyanogenMod port to TouchPad

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Unfortunately this is not a thread providing the community a taste of the hot product from CM team.

This thread is to discuss why CM team don't want to 'play' with the xda community here that is eager to follow their guides and put Android on their TouchPads?

I expected much more involvement here. with lot's of technical discussions. Like in other forums of xda.

There was the crazy bounty period which was meant to cause this forum to be very lively but instead it introduced rivalry and now a 'cold war' between devs. Every attempt to get in on the dev just gets treated like spying.

They don't want to release a 60% done alpha to the community I'm guessing. Why are you posting a question in the development forum?

Reading is hard!!!!

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Hey look, another one

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I am completely shocked that someone would NOT read the rules about posting. My day is ruined.


There are several places to find updates if you know how to use google...

Originally Posted by thebadfrog

I am completely shocked that someone would NOT read the rules about posting. My day is ruined.

This is the state of XDA nowadays.

I have a theory... back many years ago, when devices were more expensive (Palm Treo 650, anyone?), it was an "older" crowd (people with jobs that paid for the gadgets) who were able to afford buying the latest mobile devices, and were a little more mature when it came to posting on XDA and other forums in general. Fast forward a few years, and now smartphones and tablets are pretty ubiquitous overall, and many of them are in the hands of teenagers. I'm no math/stats geek, but I'm sure there can be a correlation shown between the average age of your typical smartphone user going down over time, and a rise of stupidity (and lack of maturity) on technical/development forums such as this one.

Just look at these gems:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=401
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=423

Rod has the patience of a saint to have to put up with The Stupid oozing out of that thread.

In fact, that's kind of my point/response to the OP. Can you really blame developers/dev teams for wanting to stay away from XDA? Just look at what people like Rod (rwhitby) have to deal with in those quoted posts above. I have a Vibrant, and you should see how bad the Vibrant subforum is with repeated quesions, lack of people searching first before posting, and basically wanting to have their hands held to do something instead of searching through a thread first, or even doing a simple google search. This isn't how the community used to be. But it's the state of XDA now, sadly. So don't blame CM for not wanting to get XDA involved in their alpha stuff. At this point, it would only hinder their development on the port.

My $0.02's worth and sole opinion.

I agree and I read that thread when I want a good laugh.....fing n00bs

I used to use "Let Me Google That For You" to illustrate how easy it is to find answers with just a SMIDGEN of intelligence. But I kept getting spanked by mods for snarkiness.

Here is my take on what they are really saying:

"I see all the stickys and warnings to search before asking, but I am too lazy and it just takes too much time and basic sense to find the answer.
So what I will do is say that I am in a hurry and apologize for asking my stupid question and they will answer it and all will be well."

Just let it die lol.....

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a good trick when searching is typing “cyanogenmod in touchpad site:forums.xda-developers.com” and it'll show you every thread in the website that contains those words... I know forum searching sucks big time, specially when you can't search using small words but this is the best way to search