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Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by crazygringo on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:41PM (#14817905)
As a product manager who writes sentences just like these, genuine question -- what would you prefer instead?

Let's say this has been by far the #1 app request for the past year, and the reason you've built it is literally because it's what people have been asking for. And as a team, you're actually excited to ship it after months and months of development.

Really curious how else to phrase it? Without sounding immature or unprofessional ("it's here WOOT!") -- or too self-absorbed ("Drum roll please...").

Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by raldi on Friday July 21, 2017 @12:22AM (#14818044)
"This has been by far our #1 request for the past year. It's been a long haul and we're very proud of what we've put together. We think you're going to like it."
Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by themacguffinman on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:18AM (#14818434)
How is this meaningfully different, other than the fact that your statement takes twice as many words to express the same thing?
Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by raldi on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:31AM (#14818489)
It doesn't contain the horrendously-overused word "excited".
Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by rbg246 on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:59AM (#14818599)
But it does contain the highly annoying and redundant -"We think you are going to like it"

Which both annoys me because you are telling me how I should feel and it's a new feature what other emotion are you hoping for in a customer.

Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by pgeorgi on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:48AM (#14818792)
> genuine question -- what would you prefer instead?

Genuine answer:

The version used in the motion stills press release already sounds rather self-absorbed to my ears. Might be cultural (non-US, non-English), just like everything that follows.

Compare "We listened to your feedback and today, we're excited to announce" to "Today we release the Android version, implementing the #1 feature request we received".

The latter sounds less personal, but nobody ever listened to "my" feedback on such things. "Your (plural) feedback" is always in aggregate, and unless you're talking to your database of customer sentiment, it's as unpersonal as can be, it just hides that fact better through linguistic ambiguity.

> And as a team, you're actually excited

Every 3 years old is excited to show off their paintings to their parents.

Except for a few, everybody knows that you're excited about shipping things. But since we're customers and not parents, barely anybody cares. Those who do are probably your team members' parents.

tl;dr: Highlight the product, the team if you want, their hard work. Leave out the excitation (nobody cares) or how you listened to "you, the user".

Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by achow on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:23AM (#14818255)
The blog actually says this:

However, from its initial release, the community has been asking us to also make Motion Stills available for Android. We listened to your feedback and today, we're excited to announce that we’re bringing this technology, and more, to devices running Android 5.1 and later!

This sounds perfectly normal.

Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by fezz on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:09AM (#14818204)
If you can apply it to some other product in the same tone/voice that many other kickstarter or tech products use and it sounds contrived, then you've employed your cookie cutter speak.

It's seems ok because everyone else is doing it but it'll lack the sincerity that people respond to.