Publicity

[Tim Newsom]

Plus.. With all of the harassment we (the interested techies) are 
providing about slipping dates... Imagine what the public backlash could 
do?

Maybe too much publicity too early can be harmful?

--Tim

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:15, Tehn Yit Chin wrote:
> There is PR for the geeks and then there is PR for the masses. It would 
> be nice to generate PR for the masses, but at this stage of the Neo1973 
> product life, I don't think that it is PR ready for the masses.
>
> On 6/7/07, Andrew Turner <ajturner at highearthorbit.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/6/07, el jefe delito <eljefedelito at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  I hardly think that my parents, or anyone else who may have a passing
>>>  interest in a sweet phone, reads Slashdot.  My friends don't read 
>>> it.  Even
>>>  those who do read Slashdot seem to know little about the phone (read 
>>> the
>>>  comments in the article).
>>
>> Be honest here - your parents, or anyone else with a passing interest,
>> is not going to be using the Neo1973 anytime soon either. The
>> article's audience hits squarely with the first-user audience.
>>
>> If you talk with other hardware companies, you'll realize that they
>> usually get one chance with new hardware to really be successful. They
>> don't have the time or money to have a 'flop'. And getting widespread
>> coverage too soon would result in a flop because the device (or
>> lineup) isn't ready yet. So they'll look at it, think "not for me" and
>> never give it a chance again.
>>
>> So while publicity is good, it seems prudent at this point for you to
>> hold off on widespread coverage until the entire hardware and software
>> base becomes solid and realized.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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--Tim