[Liverpool] Rasberry Pi

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 14/03/12 13:49, Simon Ward wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:45:46AM +0000, Andrew Williams wrote:
>> On 13 March 2012 22:19, Tim Jones<timjones1024 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Yeah same here - on order from Farnell - initially had an email stating mid
>>> March then quickly followed by err...actually May time :( grrrrr
>>
>> Yup, my Farnell order has slowly been slipping, to be honest when I
>> ordered it I really didn't expect to have it in my hands until well
>> into June. RPi seem to have seriously mismanaged the launch and took a
>> bit of a beating over it on the public forums.
>
> Tiny charity has its product hyped up, makes some mistakes in the
> *first* batch… result: eager consumers get all upset and give said
> charity a bit of a beating. Is there anyone else who thinks this is a
> little bit unfair?

I don't know. As a general rule of thumb, when you cleverly use the 
media for any type of marketing campaign/propaganda/sales/awareness or 
whatever else to create a mass effect - you better expect a good kicking 
when the tide turns against you. They have managed to get articles and 
commentary in almost all the high and low profile publications out there 
- and not only in this country. I'm not disputing that what they are 
doing is not good - but when you put that much effort into plastering 
your product in everybody's face - be prepared for the backlash if 
everything doesn't go like clockwork. It's the way these things work.

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