Comments on: On classic design

By: Tam Hanna, Site Founder

Tam Hanna, Site Founder — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:53:25 +0000

Hi,
being honest: I am a parker 45 diehard… . Nevertheless, good point!

Best regards and thankj you for talking back
Tam Hanna

By: pen

pen — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:48:40 +0000

I agree with the fact that you always need to re-invent your products or at least having new products comming out to keep your customers.

There is the counter argument about all of them looking the same, but the have different categories as well.

How can someone go wrong by buying a cross pen. I own ten of them and a few are collectors items. I am really happy with all of them.

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Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:48:00 +0000

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By: Oliver Leibenguth

Oliver Leibenguth — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:57:43 +0000

You always have to develop new stuff to keep customers buying it. So every now and then it has to look “new” on the outside, too.

By: Tam Hanna

Tam Hanna — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:25:41 +0000

Hi Oliver,
but I wonder why they didnt keep it up…

I\’d carry a IIIc with VGA, 624MhZ, huge battery and stereo speakers all over the world happily =).

Best regards
Tam Hanna

By: Oliver Leibenguth

Oliver Leibenguth — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:54:12 +0000

The entire product-lineup of Palm worked that way:
From Pilot 1000 to Palm Pilot Professional (4 devices), from Palm III to Palm IIIxe (8 devices) they all looked the same. They got better and better on the inside but the outside didn’t change.