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Origami Feedback Mixed, says Samsung

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-we-really-meant-was-... dept.

Ben Camm-Jones writes "Citing a mixture of reactions from customers who bought its Q1 device, Samsung has said that the pre-launch teaser campaign run by Microsoft about the Origami project may have been misleading."

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  1. Waste of bandwidth by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nowhere in the article does it mention exactly HOW it fell short of the advertizing. Does its handwriting recognition fall short? Is its reported collaboration short of the mark? This article is about as worthless as it comes to getting any real information. Perhaps they modelled their article writing on the Microsoft advertizing campaign?

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  2. Too expensive!!! by MikeRT · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If they had actually kept to the original price specs, maybe it would have done better. Still, the machines are probably a much better buy than a Nokia 770 right now.

  3. Origami project... by pubjames · · Score: 4, Interesting


    My theory is that the whole Origami project teaser campaign was a tactical spolier campaign by Microsoft that didn't work out. I think they assumed that Apple would come out with some fancy new product on their 30th anniversay, and so timed the campaign to coincide with that to spoil, or at least taint, anything Apple did. But then Apple didn't launch anything, and Microsoft was left running a spolier campaign without anything to spoil. I bet if Apple had released a new product, Microsoft would have made a lot more noise.

  4. I should add by Bertie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That actually it does have another thing going for it. It's absolutely perfect for is watching the BBC's streaming World Cup webcasts from the office toilet...

  5. Re:I've got one by Ralph+Yarro · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I suspect we're the only people that have a job that it's just perfect for.

    It's slow, it's heavier than you'd like, it gets really hot in use, it's fiddly to interact with, and it's not worth anything like the money. I

    I'm going to need more clues. I can't begin to guess what job that's perfect for.
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  6. Re:Hype? NO WAY! by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ELProphet wrote:
    So, Microsoft hyped a product (that seems to do take a good jab at it's niche), and someone says it *looked* like it might have done something else. When I see an add for a BigMac on TV, and go in to buy one, it's not *as* big or *as* juicy as in the commercial, but still worth it. So, marketers promoted a product? Big deal.

    The issue was that the hype raised expectations higher than what an actual product could deliver. The buzz about Oragami was that it was going to be a revolution in portable computing. This was going to be the device that made the PDA market irrelevant and that would make traditional laptops seem arcahic. It was going to be a birth of a new form factor that would solve the most difficult compromises of moblile computing and consolidate the market rather than fracture it further. It wasn't going to be just another way to package the cooked cow carcass we're so familiar with.

    Were the orgami companies developing the actual products completely suckered by the hype themselves? Or was the company doing the marketing simply out of touch with what the market could deliver? Though backwards, it's like NASA getting the writers of Star Trek to write up their annual budget to justify their funding from Congress. Star Trek writers could come up with enchanting arguments and get lawmakers on the edge of their seats to throw money at NASA technologies, but without being able to produce holodecks, transporters, and phasers, they'd never be able to meet the hype.