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Nokia's N-Gage - Savaged By Online Opinion

Posted by simoniker on 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 The columnist argues: "Ten years ago you might have quietly withdrawn [an 'awkward' product] from store shelves", but times have changed: "The Internet provides an instant, widespread referendum on products...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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  1. Imagin by OwlofCreamCheese · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagin a beowulf cluster of Ngages.... it....would.....suck

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  2. Turkish kid? by Foggy1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "In the meantime, corporate chiefs can take heart that the Internet memory is mercifully short. Anyone remember an early Internet celeb called The Turkish Stud? Thought not, but "I Kiss You!!!" anyway." I, err, remember that. And I bet a lot of people here do to. Short memory?

  3. Re:Slightly off topic... by zenintrude · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hot chick? I could have sworn that was the dude from 3rd Rock From the Sun.

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