Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.

nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not sure how ‘Amazon failed at doing something they promised and ended up with a shitty result’ advertises them. That’s like saying telling people that McDonalds food is full of E. Coli is an advertisement for McDonalds.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they did this for the press. it was never a serious experiment.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure they didn’t spend all this money to make stupidly unnecessary and difficult drone deliveries in a small town in Texas for the press since, again, that makes them look terrible.

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      • Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And yet here we are talking about them. Whether or not its thru positive means, its online presence grew with this.

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  • Trollception@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s how advertising works. You just try to get the name of a company out there as much as possible. It doesn’t have to be gold press to be effective. I mean we are talking about one of the most successful companies in human existence.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I really don’t understand why “Amazon sucks” is a successful advertising strategy for Amazon. Why don’t other companies use that strategy? Where is the Pepsi fucked up and put out a flavor that makes people vomit campaign that works because it gets Pepsi’s name out there?

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bad publicity is still publicity

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