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

• 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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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Who is going to be more likely to order from Amazon after reading that their drone delivery service is shit?

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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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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So it helps a fast food chain if their food turns out to be contaminated and making people sick. That’s your contention.

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      • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Find out what happened to Dasani in the UK

        Bad publicity can destroy a brand.

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