The boys in Orange have had huge problems with staff attitude in the past…and it looks like the buzz around the Pre didn’t help them too much. The screenshots below show messages from three popular online journalists:
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Let’s rephrase it: some more or less unknown guy with a website believed he could pass for journalist to prod and poke the “newness from palm”, but it didn’t work out.
Oh you poor babies. Da widdle journalist got him feeling hurt?
Man up, dude! I’ve been in journalism for 30 years. My skin is a thick as a rhino. Won’t let me play with your new toy? That’s ok. I’ll just write that you won’t let me play.
Good gosh. If you had a real journalism job you’d be laughed out of the ranks.
Two “journalists” tweet at each other, about how Palm was not friendly with them, and it is somehow worthy of an article here?
People seem to forget that the iPhone was previewed six months before it was actually released, and that it was displayed only UNDER GLASS until its release. None of this matters — no one is going to remember or care about all this impatient whining once the Pre comes out.
Or maybe the journalists could quit feeling like everybody owes them every bit of information?
When you are harassed with questions over and over again that would violate your NDA (especially when the same person is asking the questions), it gets rather old and annoying.
I’m not about to loose my job because some “journalist” wants to leak a release date, or some little tidbit.
People complained that a Palm rep in a video was rather rude for stating that she could not let a journalist hold the Pre. There is nothing wrong, or unprofessional, with saying, “I am sorry, I cannot let you do that.” Speaking for myself: I have an NDA to uphold, and I am NOT about to falter on that.
As dashford said, the iPhone was *UNDER GLASS* after it was announced. For 6 months.
Remember, when you ask “What is the release date?” after being told that information is not available, you are essentially saying, “Please put your job, your primary source of income, at risk so that you may provide me with a little tidbit of information that might make me or my site look better.”
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My opinions are those of my own, and are in no way to be taken as the opinions of my employer, Palm, Inc., or those of my business, OpenMobl Systems, or those of anybody affiliated with either entity (either as another employee, or business parter).
over-sensationalized. not article worthy. move along. nothing to see here. how about some real news next time huh?
Hi Folks,
whew – thank you all for the comments! Looks like I stung the dagger into the bee hive here!
My responses to this are in another post
Tam