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Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
tl;dr: MS rep apologizes and invites him back for a rematch. Because it's like he hasn't already won the challenge or something.
Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
He followed up with a clarification that he wasn't there and will "make it right". https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184161094774964224
Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
Wow. Just wow. Just when you think they couldn't possibly bungle this any further. tl;dr: MS rep apologizes and invites him back for a rematch. Because it's like he hasn't already won the challenge or something.
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Wow. Just wow. Just when you think they couldn't possibly bungle this any further. tl;dr: MS rep apologizes and invites him back for a rematch. Because it's like he hasn't already won the challenge or something.
did you just provide a TLDR for a tweet?!
After you say you won but were told you lost, 'I was then asked to snap a photo in front of a sign that read along the lines of “My Android was smoked by Windows Phone” before leaving the store.' You should have declined.
I didn't write this post. I added quotes around the title to try to distinguish this point. That said, I agree. The OP commented on the reddit thread for this[1], which is where I found this before posting it to HN, and said that he took the picture because he had signed something agreeing to be used in advertising. Other commenters pointed out that Microsoft had broken the agreement already so he was under no obliga…
Additionally, it would have turned into a way worse PR fiasco if in any way they tried to force him to comply. So legally and practically, nothing would have happened.
It sounds to me like all of the contests were set to be won by preconfiguration , not phone speed. Having two live-tiles already set up with the winning condition, known in advance only by the employee is hardly a contest. They didn't just not want to pay out. They likely didn't even know how. It was never even considered a possibility.
There have been previous losses and money was paid.
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/arch...
This might be a couple of rogue employees doing this instead of a company policy.
In a nutshell, the campaign is "Watch us humiliate you and the phone you are spending a lot of your hard-earned money on." Why would anyone think that making consumers feel bad is going to lead them to having the warm, fuzzy feelings necessary to buy their product?
Last year's marketing for Windows Phone was awful because it didn't show the phone. Show the phone! It looks great. Tell consumers why they should want it. Not "it does what your phone does, just a bit faster in rigged competitions." Show it working with Xbox. With Hotmail. Show its hubs. "Ever wonder what Dave is doing? On Facebook? On Foursquare? On Twitter? Now you know."
Apple and Google keep knocking their campaigns out the park because they're built on honesty. Microsoft's campaigns are built on gimmicks and bullshit, and it shows.