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Perhaps the employees can keep every $1000 they don't lose. That would be a strong motivation for cheating. Or they have a quota for losses per day.
I know if I was working in one of those stores an awful lot of my friends would be smoking the windows phone... sorry, ahem, not friends, I meant "random strangers that I have never met before, isn't that right"...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple would not have a contest. They would say. This is our product. We think it's awesome. You should think it's awesome too. If you don't want to buy it, don't. They wouldn't hold cheesy PR stunts to try and "prove" how much better they are.
Have we already forgotten the years of "I'm a PC" exaggerated comparison ads?
Microsoft has a knack for choosing (and approving) the most boneheaded PR stints in the business... do they pay companies for this nonsense or do they just come up with it themselves? 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 ne…
Absolutely. The idea is just asking for trouble - there will always be at least some dude who feels that he was treaded unfairly and reallies up the internets. Plus I am not sure how important the "speed" factor for most users really is. There are the fuzzy Apples, the Androids of freedom, the business berrys, but I am not sure if speed is an adequate positioning.
There is the stark and fresh design that (independently of whatever merits it might have) makes other mobile operating systems look old. There is the cohesiveness of the experience that even makes iOS look like it doesn’t know what it wants to be. There is the integration with Facebook that makes the phone personal without having to do anything†.
All those are things actual people praised about Windows Phone 7. Not speed in some highly constrained scenarios.
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† If you use Facebook a lot. This might shock some people on HN, but most people who also can buy a smartphone do.
Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
It technically classifies as an apology I guess. He followed up with a clarification that he wasn't there and will "make it right". https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184161094774964224
Nothing makes me calm down more than someone telling me to relax. And the exclamation point at the end is especially soothing.
This reminds me of their Vista PR stunt where they tricked unsuspecting users to give favorable feedback about Vista on camera.
Microsoft has a knack for choosing (and approving) the most boneheaded PR stints in the business... do they pay companies for this nonsense or do they just come up with it themselves? 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 ne…
Microsoft has a knack for choosing (and approving) the most boneheaded PR stints in the business... do they pay companies for this nonsense or do they just come up with it themselves? 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 ne…
The great thing about the challenge is that it is a realistic example of something you'd want to do with your phone. Why, I'm planning on visiting two different cities for my next vacation.
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.
Unless they want to start the even more boneheaded campaign showing sore losers.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112837958187789332975/alb...
Microsoft has a knack for choosing (and approving) the most boneheaded PR stints in the business... do they pay companies for this nonsense or do they just come up with it themselves? 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 ne…
The great thing about the challenge is that it is a realistic example of something you'd want to do with your phone. Why, I'm planning on visiting two different cities for my next vacation.
When I'm sitting at work 20 miles south of my home, it's quite common for my home to be getting a major storm and my work to be bright and sunny. The differences can be more severe on further trips (going to visit my family 150 miles north or south).