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| On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:24:55 -0500, George <george@nospam.invalid>
wrote:
>I am not the OP but demos and marketing are always carefully
>orchestrated to make stuff look a lot better than it really is.
Actually, REAL when it obviously ISN'T! Tricorder, anyone?
>Whatever is demonstrated may actually be great but you have no way of
>knowing that from the demo.
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>Demos are mainly used to create the "buzz" to get the tier of people who
>have to have the latest of whatever it is interested.
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>Demos tell you nothing about battery life, quality of components, poorly
>written code that locks up the device and performance of the RF section etc
Exactly. IF they actually had the thing designed and parts available
and ready to manufacture by the thousands, THEN it wouldn't take
until June to work out whatever marketing stuff still needs be done.
The engineering (among other things, getting all the parts designed)
ISN'T DONE YET. Who knows what will or will not fit/work, once it is.
What you are seeing is known as a market survey. SHOULD they
build the things in the first place? Is this feature set appealing to
enough people? Are they willing to pay, say, $600 for what they're
''seeing''? Now that it's up the flagpole, is anybody saluting?
What you're seeing ISN'T REAL. At least, not yet. It's just a prop.
Bill
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