pfarrell;492305 Wrote: > thomsens wrote: > >> So they were forced to announce that it would be coming. They did > not > >> want to. > > > The distinction is unannounced vs. announced. You don't usually go > > dark on announced products. They messed this one up. If they had > to > > pre-announce, it seems to me they should have mitigated the holiday > > season. They did not, so that's more than one mistake in my mind. > > You are missing the point. A distributor/retailer screwed up and sold > a > Touch before it was announced, before Logitech had trained its support > staff, and way before the software was ready. > > The "its coming" was not an announcement, it was just an admission of > what was known publicly. They could no longer claim it didn't exist > when > a user had one and was trying to get help on the support number and > here > on these forums. > > > Lots of companies pre-announce in order to stall other company's > sales. > > Not many since Osborne killed itself by announced and freezing its own > sales to the point of bankruptcy. > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
I didn't miss any point. It really doesn't matter what the catalyst was...I was pointing out ramifications of their actions since. Believe what you want, but companies still pre-announce all the time to stall sales of competitors. Your example is simply to the point that you need to manage product transitions properly. If you don't have a revenue stream you are trying to protect, you can announce anything you want whenever you want. I know this is obvious, but you state the Osborne case as if it was a blanket example for product announcement strategy. While I don't (and never did) believe they were trying to stall a competitor, I just stated it to point out that I do understand there are other reasons for these actions that might not be obvious to the average person. -- thomsens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomsens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1352 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72159 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
