Danger Developer Team Can Lick My Balls

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned about how cool my Danger Sidekick is. It is, in fact, quite cool.

However, the main reason for me getting it was after watching a friend of mine at OSCON using it to SSH into his home server. I was sold. I sold management on them.

I got them. No SSH client. "Oo!" says I, the next morning, "an automated software update over the air! Yayyy, my SSH client." ... nope, no SSH client.

So I ask my original guy, "What's the deal?"

"Oh," he says, "I know someone at Danger, it's not part of the general release, you have to join the developer team."

So I join the developer team. Except the only access level of developer you can get is "Joe Fucktard" which basically lets you run an emulator on your desktop, and not really put any code on the phone. So if I want to SSH via the emulated Sidekick on my desktop, I'm in great shape, but if I'm in a restaurant somewhere and need emergency access, I'm boned.

So I sent an e-mail to the "developer team" e-mail address, begging for the higher level I need to push code onto my own phone. Still not even a reply, that was a couple weeks ago.

Another friend of mine the other day was asking me about what Palm to get. I told him to get a Sidekick, but not to count on SSH, but that I had heard it was coming "real soon now".

He IM's me this evening to tell me how much he loves his Sidekick, "and tomorrow, I'm going to try out the SSH".

Uhhh, how? says I.

"Oh, I know someone at Danger"

What the fuck!? People who actually have uses for the SSH client basically get ignored, and Danger practically gives the access away to every retard they know who really has no legitimate "need" for it?

I'm the proverbial "this close" to just sending the fucking thing back to T-Mobile, and switching back to my Ericsson. Why? Because all I use it for is a phone... the mail doesn't support IMAP (hello, it's a mobile device, let it stay in sync with the mail server using a protocol that's designed precisely for that purpose), so the mail client sits unused. The web browser is nice, but how often do you really need to do that?

Without the SSH client, it's the same use as my Ericsson, except three times as big and four times as heavy, with a keyboard so it's damn near impossible to thumb-dial a phone number one-handed.