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Looks cool, and I guess I'm old and illogical - but I miss the 'old days' when you could just buy things without teasers, pre-announcements, order windows, etc.
by gedy 9y ago
Looks cool, and I guess I'm old and illogical - but I miss the 'old days' when you could just buy things without teasers, pre-announcements, order windows, etc.
I doesn't build excitement in my case, more that I forget about it and move on.
- michaelbuckbee 9y agoI feel you, but also having been on the other side of things (worked for a hardware startup in the AR space), whoo boy is hardware hard. From the side of the manufacturer, all the things you mentioned are a form of risk mitigation and demand forecasting. It's likely a fatal, company ending mistake to build 5x too many in your initial run. So, while I'm not a huge fan of such activities, I am a HUGE fan of the devices and creativity they enable as otherwise we just wouldn't see this kind of stuff.
- gedy 9y agoTotally agree, more just commenting the large number of products I probably would've bought on sight had they been available, but instead are forgotten or in some old bookmark somewhere due to being unavailable.
- TheRealPomax 9y agoYou seem to gloss over the old days where we got teasers and pre-announcements in the form of interviews, tradeshow reports, and PR photos in trade magazines. They were just doled out at a much lower frequency than today, but then that's pretty much true of everything else, too.
- stefan_ 9y agoYou need this stuff when in the old days, current days and future days, people will replace your product with a mere pencil. Measure, mark, cut.