Plus.. With all of the harassment we (the interested techies) are
providing about slipping dates... Imagine what the public backlash could
do?
Maybe too much publicity too early can be harmful?
--Tim
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:15, Tehn Yit Chin wrote:
There is PR for the geeks and then there is PR for the masses. It would
be nice to generate PR for the masses, but at this stage of the Neo1973
product life, I don't think that it is PR ready for the masses.
On 6/7/07, Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/6/07, el jefe delito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hardly think that my parents, or anyone else who may have a passing
interest in a sweet phone, reads Slashdot. My friends don't read
it. Even
those who do read Slashdot seem to know little about the phone (read
the
comments in the article).
Be honest here - your parents, or anyone else with a passing interest,
is not going to be using the Neo1973 anytime soon either. The
article's audience hits squarely with the first-user audience.
If you talk with other hardware companies, you'll realize that they
usually get one chance with new hardware to really be successful. They
don't have the time or money to have a 'flop'. And getting widespread
coverage too soon would result in a flop because the device (or
lineup) isn't ready yet. So they'll look at it, think "not for me" and
never give it a chance again.
So while publicity is good, it seems prudent at this point for you to
hold off on widespread coverage until the entire hardware and software
base becomes solid and realized.
Andrew
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