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Panasonic aims to skip over low-pricing e-tailers, focus on "value adding" distributors {Engadget HD}
Mar 19th 2009 9:13AM This is just one of many rearrangements and reorganizations and restrategizing that Panny has been doing for decades.
Keeping the good merch away from the low-price whores sounds nice to electronics specialty stores with high-priced help, and has been tried before by Panny and others. Invariably, it falls apart when sales start to slide or a big dealer complains about the loss of a product line.
It's kind of like the Kremlin's old "five year plans."
"To maximize efficiency, from 1961 to 1966 the Soviet factories will make only red sneakers for the left foot in size 6. From 1967 to 1972, they will only make blue/right/10."
April fool: AbleComm forgets what day it is, retracts Panasonic plasma cellphone release {Engadget}
Apr 6th 2008 1:34AM Be sure of your facts (and non-facts). We didn't forget the date, or anything. We deliberately distributed the spoof on the third because we knew it would get better pick-up then if it was sent out on the the first. There's no law limiting hoaxes to any one day of the year.
I did include a give-away that SOME media (not you) caught. I said that the mythical press conference took place on Tuesday, which was April Fools Day. Only one writer was suspicious enough to call and I told him that the "news" was April fooling.
As for stones, the retraction was sent with our full knowledge and approval a few hours after the spoof was sent out. I also sent an email with a confession, congratulating the first website that was publicly suspicious.
