gullie667
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Location: Raleigh, NC
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Not quite yet. Here is mine. Then it can end 
I have refrained for posting anything on this forum related to the Aurora release, one way or the other. However, because the light is at the end of the tunnel, I will go ahead and state my opinion.
To all you trolling bashers, I think you are a bunch of whinny and spoiled brats. I could be more colorful here but I will leave it at that. I work in an industry where delays are frequent and customers are often disappointed with those delays. However, they also know that the reason behind it is nearly always a reasonable one, yet is rarely publicly admitted. Generally it is due to some form of inexperience or, believe it or not, actually polishing the product. This said, delays are always in the interest of ensuring the product can be a successfully one. It does no one any good to release a half-baked widget, no matter what the related reasons are.
You know what is really sad, my customers are often teens, and as a group, they act more mature about delays that the group here on RR. Some of course are not, and for that reason, we don't announce that products have been completed until a week or two before release. Sometimes the reality is that the code went gold months ago. That curtails some of the impatient customers frustration but as an industry, we have hundreds of thousands of product releases from which to refer.
Honestly, I think Carbon Extreme did a decent job of PR. Could they have done better? Sure. My guess is you could be better at some aspects of your job too. I am sure that all the prefect people in the forum threw most of the stones though. Right?
In any case, one thing is probably a given, CX will certainly avoid announcing a release date on another product until they have a specific date to release.
Contrary to popular belief, Carbon Extreme doesn't owe you a reply to every post, accusation, or insult on the topic and damn sure shouldn't. This said, I am sure they have really struggled with bitting their tounges.
If you actually have an interest in seeing truly irrepressible examples of poor PR and product planning you should turn your attention to a company actually worthy of your affections.
From the looks of it, Carbon Extreme has a beautiful product which has reached a high level of quality, has endured a lengthy design and testing phase, has received more hype than anyone would have predicted, and on this forum endured relentless hating rants from people that have know idea what it takes to get a product to market.
Admittedly, I have enjoined the journey.
Gullie
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