Comments on: Tacky Microsoft Ferrari promo

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:53:34 +0000

Many bloggers complain about not being take seriously as journalists.

Are reviewers at major magazines and newspapers expected to return the products they review?

Blog readers should be made aware of the nature of these reviews so we can judge them on their intellectual as well as moral merits.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:40:23 +0000

WOW, of course its unethical, “here take somethin worth $2500 and write a report about our products please” I’m fairly sure this is the exact definition of conflict of interest

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:42:06 +0000

BULL!!!

It’s just business. You can’t rate a product unless you use the thing… Give me a break…

You dooshbags are just jealous that you didn’t get one.

DOOSHBAGS

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:36:39 +0000

Enzo Ferrari would roll over in his grave if he knew what Microsoft and Acer are doing with his name and emblem. And the bloggers slobbering over MS in order to get their hands on a free laptop should be ashamed of themselves. It makes them little more than MS-whores.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:27:01 +0000

You’re right.
They’re so non-influential that microsoft saw fit to give them
4000 dollar laptops for their non-influence.

troll.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:17:49 +0000

No the companies involved have full rights to use the Ferrari logo, both AMD and Acer are in fact Ferrari’s F1 team sponsors. What’s unethical is whether sending these laptops out to “journalists” is akin to bribery.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:12:37 +0000

The controversy also seems to be helping you bloggers. Up until the controversy, I’d never even heard of any of you guys. Now you’re showing up as top headline news on Google News. Each of you are waxing poetic about your philosophies in life, and your ethics, etc. It’s as if you guys were influential and people desire to know what you think.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:30:21 +0000

He’s not losing too much anyway. These machines are a pitiful example of trying to redefine the high-end by innovative branding (applied to mediocre generic hardware), as opposed to the actual quality one could expect a few years ago for a $4,000 price tag when a dull gray laptop carried a modest logo of some hardware company.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:09:28 +0000

You are jealous because you obviously did not get one.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:22:03 +0000

I don’t get it. What’s supposed to be unethical about a Ferrari-themed laptop? In fact I’m interested to have one (not that I would buy it!). If this is unethical just because it’s disrespectful to the history of Ferrari’s logo, it is almost like saying your making the millionaire artist poor by downloading one of his songs.