Re:Matchstick to refund everyone's money
by javert on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:25PM
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His point is that it was an attempted bait and switch. The fact that they failed and refunded the money doesn't change that. They purportedly promised one product and worked on a different one.
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Re:Matchstick to refund everyone's money
by Sanddancer on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:02PM
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It's not even an attempted bait and switch. They thought that a certain feature was needed/wanted, so they tried implementing it. Extra features have killed projects before and will kill in the future.
Re:Matchstick to refund everyone's money
by CognitiveLens on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:24PM
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Let's say I want to sell you shirt. You pre-order the shirt, then I decide that it's import that the same shirt has an additional pocket on the front. At that point, is it a bait-and-switch scam?
Like Sanddancer says, it's just feature-creep that scuttled the project, not a malicious misrepresentation of the product.
The project was billed as a DRM-free chromecast alternative.
It's more like you pre-order a pocketless shirt, I'm not able to retrofit a pocket onto it and so I refund your money.