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Perhaps they did it on purpose as a marketing gag.

by lazyjones 7y ago

isoprophlex 7y ago
Yeah. Any press coverage is good press coverage with this thing. The thing is so outlandish, like something Philip k Dick dreamt up, you'll either love it or hate it. The outcome seems determined by your taste, to me it is not influenced by what happened in the demo. As an aside... What a fucking cool car.
pgt 7y ago
It's possible. Peter Thiel has called Elon Musk, "the master marketer."
Traster 7y ago
It's honestly amazing how debased our society has become where even outright fucks are excused as "Oh well maybe they're just so clever that their success looks indistinguishable from a normal person failing"
- pjc50 7y ago
  You've seen who's President, right?
- viraptor 7y ago
  That doesn't have to be the thinking behind it. I agree it could be a PR stunt. They're not clever - they're just abusing marketing edge cases hoping that more eyes is better than an irrelevant staged failure. (Possibly true given this post made it to the top of HN) It's still terrible, but I wouldn't say clever. Maybe sleazy.
- reportgunner 7y ago
  That's what you get from buying the newest, shiniest ad without the customer caring about the product itself. This approach has been glorified and happily adapted by everyone in the past decade just for the purpose of getting external validation on social networks. We are just witnessing late stages of that.
- drcongo 7y ago
  This should be the top comment on this thread. The entire presentation was a shambles. Elon Musk mumbling while trying to read stats off the screen behind him, attempting to answer hecklers and ending sentences that he'd forgotten to start. Then some tediously long demos of a man dropping a ball down a tube with amateur magician flourishes. That anyone could watch this and then conclude that he's a genius who did it on purpose is truly mine boggling.

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Perhaps they did it on purpose as a marketing gag.

by lazyjones 7y ago

Perhaps they did it on purpose as a marketing gag.

isoprophlex 7y ago
Yeah. Any press coverage is good press coverage with this thing. The thing is so outlandish, like something Philip k Dick dreamt up, you'll either love it or hate it. The outcome seems determined by your taste, to me it is not influenced by what happened in the demo. As an aside... What a fucking cool car.
pgt 7y ago
It's possible. Peter Thiel has called Elon Musk, "the master marketer."
Traster 7y ago
It's honestly amazing how debased our society has become where even outright fucks are excused as "Oh well maybe they're just so clever that their success looks indistinguishable from a normal person failing"
- pjc50 7y ago
  You've seen who's President, right?
- viraptor 7y ago
  That doesn't have to be the thinking behind it. I agree it could be a PR stunt. They're not clever - they're just abusing marketing edge cases hoping that more eyes is better than an irrelevant staged failure. (Possibly true given this post made it to the top of HN) It's still terrible, but I wouldn't say clever. Maybe sleazy.
- reportgunner 7y ago
  That's what you get from buying the newest, shiniest ad without the customer caring about the product itself. This approach has been glorified and happily adapted by everyone in the past decade just for the purpose of getting external validation on social networks. We are just witnessing late stages of that.
- drcongo 7y ago
  This should be the top comment on this thread. The entire presentation was a shambles. Elon Musk mumbling while trying to read stats off the screen behind him, attempting to answer hecklers and ending sentences that he'd forgotten to start. Then some tediously long demos of a man dropping a ball down a tube with amateur magician flourishes. That anyone could watch this and then conclude that he's a genius who did it on purpose is truly mine boggling.