Because I have other places I focus on - I don't want to drive everything, I can't drive everything, it was a very limited launch and if people want to post they can and if they don't they don't have to. I love DCT but I have other places I focus on. We clearly have different approaches to launching a product, I'm quite new to this so maybe I'm making a mistake but at the moment in my eyes the launch went better than I thought it would so I'm pretty happy. I now have other focus's, bigger and more encompassing but I'll never leave DCT I just may not be as active on it.
Cheers,
Dan
For some peculiar reason, once again you present this as all revolving around you personally or the product launch itself or what you may be "focusing" on at the moment, but whether people are posting in the JooVuu forums on DCT in recent weeks or not has nothing to do with these factors.
Yesterday, I simply made an observation that discussion of the camera had dropped off abruptly, which I found to be unusual considering the build-up and early excitement regarding this camera here on the forums, but at this point in time, I believe the number of posts or interest in the camera here on DCT has nothing to do with you directly. The camera is now out there for discussion and review without you regardless of how many have or have not been sold to date.
No doubt, my observation made you rather uncomfortable but it was just an observation and nothing more and there is no reason for you to try to explain away the drop off in postings in the weeks following the launch or to defend it, nor could you I think. Putting whatever reason for the dearth of recent posts aside, the camera will ultimately gain traction in the marketplace or it won't. I do imagine that this sub-forum will start to pick-up again in short order. I hope it does. As for the JooVuuX forum on your web site, I believe such a forum is more for current and future owners and dedicated JooVuu X disciples rather than the kind of wide spectrum general Dash Cam forums we have here at DCT.
When you first announced your intention to introduce this camera, as a Mobius aficionado I was extremely excited about it initially and I was intent on purchasing at least two of them, but (for me, at least for now) there have been too many unanswered questions, as yet unsubstantiated, independently verified performance claims, boasts about amazing future features that may or may not ever come to fruition, a couple of design shortcomings (the GPS placement for one) an ill-timed last minute price increase just before the pre-order period ended, and frankly Dan, the way you sometimes conduct yourself here on DCT (and elsewhere) kind of turned me off to the whole thing. The related frequency and nature of many of the customer service complaints about JooVuu and your handling of them, whatever their perceived validity have given me and others some pause as well. So I guess to be perfectly honest with you, with the sudden drop-off in interest and attention to the camera here on the forums, the truth of the matter is that I have been speculating that there's a possibility that I am not the only one to have reached the same decision, at least for now. I don't know, somehow the whole thing has the feel of a Kickstarter project, but without the usual incentives for the early adopters.
I'm sure there are other opinions on this and the Beta-testers seem for the most part happy with their cameras but for many of us here on DCT we would like to see a lot more footage and real world testing of
production cameras and the results from latest firmware rather than claims and assurances about what we might expect at a future date. The detailed analysis and comparison videos we see here on DCT have become an important tradition thanks to members like
@niko and others and so far
@kamkar1 has offered the most JooVuu X footage to review and although some of the footage looks very promising, there are some real issues, especially the night time performance which is sub-par. When I commented on this quite some time ago after seeing
@kamkar1's night footage, you took issue with my remarks about it Dan and quoted them, boasting that the latest firmware offered terrific night performance. But that was a month ago or so and we have yet to see any actual video that proves otherwise. Curiously, Kamakar's last posting of comparison examples was almost a month ago around the time the discussions went quiet. So far, I have yet to hear anyone say, Wow, this camera is amazing! This is an expensive camera and where some may take a flier on a less expensive unit, people who spend almost two hundred dollars want to know what they are actually getting and that it is money well spent.
The JooVuu X is a camera with amazing potential I think, and I know how hard you have worked on it. I know you have really put your heart into it, so I apologize if my comments seem less than supportive. I really do wish you all the success in the world with the X but for me and perhaps others, at least for now it has become a bridge too far.
