Speaking in Tech: The worst PR in the tech industry

speaking_in_tech Greg Knieriemen podcast enterprise It's another one of El Reg's enterprise tech casts, where we get into the nitty-gritty of everything that went down in the past few days in the world of electronics, mobile, services and more. This week your hosts are Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela as Ed Saipetch is playing …

[Anonymous Coward]

Worst PR in the Tech Industry? I think I can trump that:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19758380 around 03:10

Nintendo UK Marketing Director Shelly Pearce (starts at 02:43) is asked the golden PR question of 'what distinguishes the product from the competition' and dies on her arse.

[toadwarrior]

Re: Worst PR in the Tech Industry? I think I can trump that:

Agreed, she's not that good at all because she clearly doesn't know about her own product. It's pretty obvious what the difference is between the vita and a Wii-U controller.

[Knieriemen]

Re: Worst PR in the Tech Industry? I think I can trump that:

OK... I think this tops Huawei's PR... good find

[earplugs]

Huawei PR woot

Huawei hired the Propaganda Ministry who paid a lot of bribes to prominent lawmakers - problem solved.

[Tom 13]

Maybe nobody's defending Huawei because

everybody knows they were originally setup by the Chicoms to spy, and being in the spy business is sort of like being in the mob: the only way you ever leave is feet first at room temperature.

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you need a credible accusation

Before you need to worry about a credible refutation.