E5 blue pop

[corallivore]

Originally Posted by warriorcookie

It's just an example, but....

If you buy an LED Tv today, it will be discontinued in January and the new one will probably land in march. It won't be a radical new technology, just an improvement on existing LED tech. Improvements based on customer feedback and refining the engineering going into the technology. They won't offer you a trade in on the new one just because it performs better. Even if it's defective you don't get to trade it in, it's repaired. And the price of the new tv won't be the same, it will be much cheaper!

New technology is always in the works. A product lifecycle will vary based on a number of factors, but if a company always waited to launch because something better is coming they'd never sell anything. Something better is always coming.

Maybe i'm missing the point? Far as i know, the E5 isn't defective, just underwhelming?

Not a great analogy at all.

The big difference is that you KNOW the next TV is coming, you KNOW your iphone is going to be outdated.

People salivate over the next best thing.

If I had known these were coming in less than a year (as the company surely did) I would not have bought, the company knew that and acted accordingly.

I get what you're trying to say, maybe you'd feel different if you had been the one to drop a few hundred on these...maybe not.

As for me, I'm not satisfied and feel the company did a terrible job in informing their customers knowing full well the product they had been hyping for months as a game changer would be outdated within a year.

[warriorcookie]

Originally Posted by corallivore

Not a great analogy at all.

The big difference is that you KNOW the next TV is coming, you KNOW your iphone is going to be outdated.

People salivate over the next best thing.

If I had known these were coming in less than a year (as the company surely did) I would not have bought, the company knew that and acted accordingly.

I get what you're trying to say, maybe you'd feel different if you had been the one to drop a few hundred on these...maybe not.

As for me, I'm not satisfied and feel the company did a terrible job in informing their customers knowing full well the product they had been hyping for months as a game changer would be outdated within a year.

Semantics, right?

Overall, if you're not satisfied with the product you're probably not going to buy anything from that company again. We vote with our dollars. I think we can both agree on that.