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Reasonable that a contest Microsoft is hosting to promote their own product is skewered towards their own product. The thing is, most of the Smoked by Windows
by Livven 15y ago
Reasonable that a contest Microsoft is hosting to promote their own product is skewered towards their own product.
The thing is, most of the Smoked by Windows Phone challenges (at least those that they did at CES and MWC) are actually pretty everyday tasks like uploading a photo, posting something to social networks etc. Those actually do make some sense.
Though, they did screw up this one pretty badly. Instead of giving out a $1k prize they're now paying way, way more with all the bad PR...
- rbanffy 15y ago> Reasonable that a contest Microsoft is hosting to promote their own product is skewered towards their own product. No. It's not reasonable at all. If you propose a challenge, I would assume you want to prove a point beyond how much you can stack the deck (we already know they can go very far with that). Wouldn't it be nicer if they actually had a superior product instead? If they have a superior product, like they claim, why do they need to manipulate the rules to favor their product?
- Livven 15y agoYou can't objectively prove that one smartphone is the best. You can only point out some of the things one smartphone platform does better than other ones, and those are exactly the things that Microsoft has chosen for their challenge. That's what I meant with "skewer", but it's really just highlighting your own, unique strengths.
- rbanffy 15y agoYou can't, but you can make a phone that is easier/more practical than the competition for a couple common use cases. When you have a product that can stand on its own, then you make a campaign like this one. Whatever you do, you don't open yourself up for this kind of accusation. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_windows_phone_challenge_but_lost_just/c45037b http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_...
- jacalata 15y agoYou may not have read the article this post was about. It's referring to exactly that incident.
- rbanffy 15y agoIf you read the link I sent, the thread was about the original article incident, but the post was about another, where, among other things, it seemed Microsoft was throttling the bandwidth so that competing phones would appear slower. This just plain dishonest.