I'm just fine with this. It was well done in that it listed a reasonable set of specs, a price point, and then said "just kidding". It wasn't really subtle but a pretty clear message to PR.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:37 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > on 2012-04-01 16:49 Darren Addy wrote > >> I've got to believe that Ricoh Pentax Japan is not terribly overjoyed >> to be implicated in this April Fools joke. It is one thing for a >> company (like Google) to do an April Fools joke in its own name. It >> would be quite another for a company (like Google) to do an April >> Fools book about another company (like Yahoo for example). Yet that is >> what Adam did to Pentax and he made a lot of consumers rather mad in >> the process. Particularly given that the April Fools concept is not >> necessarily understood by all cultures, I think this was an especially >> dumb move. > > > it seems to me you must think Pentax is a rather fragile target, as it's > quite common to do spoofs like this at the "expense" of consumer product > companies; for example i remember several addressed at Apple last year > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
