Reply 100 of 106, by butjer1010
darry wrote on Yesterday, 12:44:butjer1010 wrote on Yesterday, 07:25:I think there is some kind of possibly language-related misunderstanding going on here. Not praising a company up and down is not the same as being hateful, and stating facts is not the same as being hateful. The details of the Aureal lawsuit and Creative's anti-competitive buying out of every sound card innovator until the market was destroyed is all public knowledge and easy to find online.
If more than 90% of comments are negative, it seems to me that this is hateful.... maybe i'm wrong, but this is not the first forum or first thread i can see that hate towards everything! That's why i commented this. Maybe really word hateful in my language means something else than on English, but i doubt.
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Just to be clear, there are, IMHO at least a few nuances here.
a) Some people have negative feelings about Creative. Either they dislike the company for various reasons and possibly even wish it to fail. I do not feel this way about Creative despite understanding the reasons shared by others.
b) Some people have negative feelings about this new product's marketing campaign because it is full of mostly hype and buzzwords AND never makes it clear concretely what problems it is trying to solve or what needs said product might fulfill. I, for one do not have any idea what this product might be able to actually do for (or not) me based on that marketing campaign. As a consequence I do have a negative view of the marketing campaign specifically.
c) Some people might already have a negative view of the actual product. I personally feel that there simply is not enough to go on for that. This might end up a very good product that people (possibly even myself included) actually find useful and, hopefully for Creative, the product will sell well. However, as I have previously stated, there is currently too little actual information for me to be interested, especially in the context that I do not feel I am missing anything in particular in my retro experience and the marketing is not being very convincing, IMHO (see point b). In other words, I DO NOT have a negative view of the product and, in fact, do not have ANY view of the product because it's use cases are unclear at this point.
To be clear, I do not feel that I have an arguably negative view of anything except the marketing campaign (point b) AND the fact that I am skeptical about there being a potential use case, for me specifically at least, for any retro themed product that likely targets a wide audience (as Creative or any other relatively large company would likely want to do). I would be happy to be proven wrong.
I agree some people here truly dislike (hate) Creative. However, he fact that this product announcement does not generate enthusiasm, while being arguably classifiable as a "negative" reaction, does not necessarily imply any "hate", IMHO.
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Nicely said, i totally understand Your point of view.
I was just surprised (again and again) how many people are negative these days towards everything (in this case Creative). As i mentioned, this is not the only forum i could read such comments... But i'm glad that there are nice people like You, who can discus in such nice manner (unlike this kid "living" up there).
