[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Diamondback:
Hey guys,

I really need to rant a little bit now.

This thread is for everyone creating all those "kill ASUS on facebook/twitter/blog sites" threads.

I really understand your angryness about the initial issues with the Prime, but has

anyone

of you guys ever thought about that you are doing huge damage to both ASUS and

yourself

with those hate campaigns?

Best example: "Lets spread information about minor software problems all over the web and its major blog sites"

This is ridicioulus guys... Seriously, ASUS really can't fix for example the serialnumber issue within 3 days...

They need to find out what's wrong first. After that they need to fix the problem. After fixing the testing follows.

All this needs time. And spreading rather unprofessional information all around the web won't speed this up at all.

But now to the main part of my rant: the damage being done to

us, the owners of the Prime.

Do you guys really think you are doing anything good with those social attacks?

In fact you are driving many people away from the Prime for reasons which are seriously non-issues.

Lets re-think about the issues and ASUS reactions:

GPS issue: ASUS confirmed, that this might be a hardware problem,

it seems they are starting a bonus program for the ones not happy with the GPS (either 6 more months of warranty or a full refund)

This is actually really embarassing for them, but I couldn't think of any better method to solve this issue

(we are talking about realistic methods here, giving you a free TF700 is

not realistic

)

The Wifi issue: Well actually we do not know much about this.

ASUS told us it's not a hardware issue, rather an issue of specific batches with wrong firmware. We will see in the future what they can do here

The Wifi/BT issue: As several members found out this is a real non-issue. Speed drops appear across all devices and platforms when using BT and Wifi together. Nothing really to complain about here

Random lockups and reboots and unknown serial number issue: ASUS is aware of these problems, already got fixes and is testing these fixes right now.

Nobody else tests fixes with real customers in a public forum. Thats' great!

Now lets talk about that damage I am always talking about:

Here the facts:

Reporting minor software issue (GPS and Wifi aside here) definitely leads to a smaller customer base for the Prime

Major news sites falsely reported the serial number problem as a hardware problem, leading to confused users which do not want to buy this tablet

Smaller userbases always lead to less support, both from the company and also from our own developers.

Less company support means that we will get less often and lower quality updates for our Prime. The device will be abandonned much faster than devices with large customer bases

Less dev support means less innovating new features from our side, less custom ROMs, less custom kernels, in fact the smaller the userbase the faster the Prime development will go dead

Think of the HTC HD2: the ultimate development phone. Its rather big userbase lead to incredible development. They have everything on that phone: Win 6.x, WP 7, Android 2.x and 4.x, real Linux... Smaller userbases ultimately lead to worse device development

I guess it's already too late, the damage being done by you and the major blog sites is

irreparable

.

Non tech-focused customers who read Engadget won't get a Prime now.

But these non-tech focused guys are the imporatn part of a customer base.

We tech guys here are always a very minor part of a device's customer base.

Ah and by the way: If you buy a product directly after launch, you have to

expect

those kind of problems.

I haven't seen any product launch in the last years which had not initial problems and issues. No matter if tablet or phones, HTC or Samsung...

ASUS is always one of the first (the first?) major companies, providing support on xda-developers. That is nothing usual for big companies like ASUS.

Give them credit for this move.

I hope someone actually read that text...