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I was (very) mildly interested in it until it got spammed into Firefox. Now it exists in the same category as Norton Antivirus in my mind. I stopped paying atte
by moltke 5y ago
I was (very) mildly interested in it until it got spammed into Firefox. Now it exists in the same category as Norton Antivirus in my mind. I stopped paying attention to what they were doing around then.
It probably actually has some decent features (probably some I want) but every time I see/hear about it I have a pretty negative reflexive reaction.
- rg111 5y ago> but every time I see/hear about it I have a pretty negative reflexive reaction. That's what I am trying to figure out. Why is every reaction that I get on HN is negative? Everybody says it's bad, but nobody clarifies. The forum being HN irks me more.
- lostdog 5y agoSpammy marketing means the leadership of the company has bad product sense. No point in wasting time on that sort of product.
- rg111 5y ago> Spammy marketing means the leadership of the company has bad product sense. I understand this point-of-view. But this cannot be the sole reason. Are there any other reasons that are concrete, provable? And this is also not a universal statement. I have seen good products, not limited to software industry, that were excellent, but the marketing was spammy.
- TheGrumpyBrit 5y agoDislike of a particular aspect of a product doesn't need to be concrete/provable - a vague feeling of "I don't like this so I won't use it" is all it takes. With Pocket in particular, the bundling with Firefox moved my impression of it from "this is a potentially useful tool" to "this company feels like they need to force their product down my throat by bundling it with a browser - I don't know why they're doing that but it makes me not want to keep any data with them"
- mikecoles 5y agoIt's my sole reason. I thought the product could have been useful and toyed with it until it started coming bundled.