On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Greg W <mttbrns...@outlook.com> wrote:
> I'm really impressed with the Canonical influenced design of the Edge. And > it's because I'm so impressed that it's disappointing to me that the Edge > will "die" if the campaign fails. It seems like a great design would be > going to waste. Everything I've read has said that if the campaign is not > successful, Canonical's influence on hardware design will be no more. > > Just a thought - from the beginning I thought Canonical made this campaign to lose, because it was clearly impossible to reach such a high amount. Maybe there is some psychological play here, profitting from the feeling of disappointment and lost opportunity that such a fantastic phone was "almost created", a small period of silence, then some Big News™ announcing the Ubuntu Edge from some carrier or big player of the cellphone market. In social psychology, creating a negative feeling prior to a positive one makes the latter be greatly emphasized, so it can actually "be felt" ten times better than it actually is. Maybe I am wrong, but I have been following Mark's actions and so far he has been brilliant. And starting a campaign so that he would lose - this is so not him. I think there is more than meets the eye here. -- Cláudio "Patola" Sampaio IRC: ptl - Yahoo: patolaaa Campinas, SP - Brazil.
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