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I have trouble believing all these "accidental leakages" are actually accidents. The new trendy marketing gimmick?
by aik 15y ago
I have trouble believing all these "accidental leakages" are actually accidents. The new trendy marketing gimmick?
- mgunes 15y agoThe new "concept car".
- rbanffy 15y agoIt's their traditional "don't commit your efforts to our competitor - our product is just around the corner".
- brudgers 15y agoInvitation only rollouts would appear to follow a similar thought process.
- sushumna 15y agovery true...its all Mktng gimmick....this strategy offers free publicity. See what happend to iphone4...huge hit after " Being left at a bar Accidently :D "
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- czhiddy 15y agoI didn't bother to downvote, but do you honestly think that the Gizmodo iPhone 4 incident was a carefully orchestrated PR stunt? Seriously?
- oldstrangers 15y agoWell it does provide them with a sort of "market viability" test. Leak some information to see how the world reacts, and then decide if it's worth proceeding or not (obviously not, in this case).
- thirdsun 15y agoThey didn't do a great job at analyzing the feedback towards the courier project then.
- msabalau 15y agoTrying to overhang the market may be trendy, but it's certainly not new. Anyway, in the absence of any reason to believe that this thing, whatever it is, will solve some problem in a compelling new way, revealing it's existence doesn't accomplish much. I'd say it seems more likey that this is simply a mistake, rather than a weak marketing stunt.