Registered: Mar 2000
Location: NYC
Posts: 287

I guess Innogear uses a different calendar because they always get the dates and seasons wrong...
Check their page update
http://www.innogear.com/6.htm

I hope they get at least the "2000" right...

Al

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Registered: Mar 2000
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http://www.innogearsucks.com

I think I am gonna set that one up.....

Does that surprise anyone? I mean come on. Do you really think Innogear is working on a springboard module that does 6 functions in a normal size module? If they were, they sure wouldn't keep posting bogus dates and changing them. They are just leading us on to believe that they actually make anything.

Innogear, your company sucks. You may develop the greatest products ever known to mankind, but you can't keep a schedule or read a damn calendar. Stop giving us your lame excuses and release the damn 6-pack!

Registered: Nov 1999
Location:
Posts: 341

Amen to that. At the least an Innogear rep should post here giving us the straight story or at least explaining things. This is becoming a farce. Vaporware at its finest.

mike

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

They have spoken:

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SixPak is still as SixPak...we are still a voice recorder...we will check into the web site information....we are completely rebuilding the web site, so possibly someting happened to the text data.
Hang in there people...we are building a company that is dedicated to bringing Springboards solutions to the market...we are a startup and growing fast. As far as pricing goes, we cannot help that there is price gouging on memory chips and other key components...several articles about this market fact has been posted on this web site by others...your complaints should be directed to those companies getting rich off of the short supply/high demand/worldwide shortages of key components. We are at very normal margins, but we are running a business would never sell products below our cost.

Thanks!
InnoGear.

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Metro Station, Hollywood and Highland
Posts: 1018

For once, the whining's justified. It's admirable the the vast majority of 4000 Springboard developers allegedly out there are doing what Thincomm did: say nothing until they have a product to ship.

Not that it matters in the long run. The MiniJam and the SixPak are still the most coveted of the announced modules, and I'm sure that they'll do very well if they ship.

But my guess is that if there are indeed thousands of Springboard developers out there, at least a few of them are working on competing products that are as good or even better than those two modules. That's arguably empty speculation, but so is guessing when the two announced modules are going to ship. The MiniJam, for instance, debuted at Internet World last October, and was slated for release at the end of that year. Two months shy of a full year later, Innogear has deigned to take pre-orders, whatever that means.Also debuted last October was the SixPack, which is now due out in October of this year.

Innogear may doing everything they can to meet the demand, but from a public relations standpoint they've created the customer perception that they've abdicated all responsibility for the delays. For them to tell customers to redirect their complaints elsewhere simply adds insult to injury, as if customers were the ones who announced the product prematurely in the first place.

I'm over Innogear. One thing the long delays have done is give me time to reflect on what modules I really need, not want. I realized that what I really need is uncompromised access to the internet anytime, anywhere. So I'm holding out for the Minstrel S. Then the SixPak's modems will be irrelevant.

Prediction: if the SixPak is ever released, it'll sell for $259, minimum -- not "under $200." A don't complain. Be sure to blame those evil parts suppliers.

[This message has been edited by Gameboy70 (edited 07-22-2000).]

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: NYC
Posts: 287

This is what I found at the end of the Innogear FAQ

"All product features mentioned in this FAQ document are pending final design configuration and are subject to change."
http://www.innogear.com/faq.htm#sixpack

This is kind of tricky, right? I guess, it would be nice to sell something saying that it does a lot of things for a price and that it will be released on a certain day. And at the same time say that I might change my mind about all the things I say on the first place.

Imaging how the customer service will be after those products are released by innogear...!


Al

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[This message has been edited by acajigas (edited 07-22-2000).]

Registered: Mar 2000
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Well I guess now Vaporgear is off the hook for an October release date since they took all reference to an actual date off their site. If you check out http://store.innogear.com/products.cfm you will notice no dates, only a COMING SOON note. Way to go Vaporgear!

I think I am going to make this my forum signature:

Innogear just plain sucks. Their marketing sucks, their development sucks, their public affairs suck, their management sucks. They just plain suck. One year later and still no real modules from them. I hope they go bankrupt. they deserve it.

Registered: Mar 2000
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Just testing out my new signature.... Like it???

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