Nokia's N-Gage - Savaged By Online Opinion

Posted by simoniker on Thursday November 6, 2003 @05:19PM from the lots-of-reaction dept.

Thanks to CNN for their column discussing how the Internet has changed the way 'bad' products are viewed, with reference to Nokia's N-Gage 'mobile game deck'. The columnist argues: "Ten years ago you might have quietly withdrawn [an 'awkward' product] from store shelves", but times have changed: "The Internet provides an instant, widespread referendum on products... And the Net crowd, for obvious reasons, tends to eye high-tech products. But the things that do get interest, usually negative, watch out." He then gives the immensely popular, N-Gage-related Side Talkin' site as an example of this backlash, quoting a Nokia spokesman as saying of the site: "It's better to have some reaction than no reaction at all."

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Their own world. by GrumpyDog · 2003-11-06 17:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I love the articles attitude: Free speach on the Internet is so goofy, unpredictable and funny! Those gosh darn kids have the darndest opinions! I just mean that the corps are gonna' have to try harder to market their wonderful products around those rascally kids free speech! Don't worry they don't have long memories....
I say; crap is crap is crap! Nokia is not a failure of marketing! Nokia is crap...
... hold on guys I hear a lawyer knocking ...