Mon 31 Mar 2008
Backlash: Creative Sparks Customer Revolt When It Tries To Silence Third-Party Programmer
Posted by hevnsnt under Internetconsumerist.com
Creative’s executive team will be coming in to quite a mess Monday morning, thanks to its VP of Screw Ups, Phil O’Shaughnessy. Friday morning, he posted a warning on the Creative customer forums that told programmer Daniel_K to stop writing his own drivers for their X-Fi sound cards. The cards still won’t work on Vista over a year after the OS was released, because Creative hasn’t released drivers for them—but by Mr. O’Shaughnessy’s account, Daniel_K is “stealing” from Creative by making the cards work. Then the weekend happened.
Over the weekend, Creative’s forums have exploded with posts from angry customers who have sworn to stop buying their products. There’s already a boycott site up at boycottcreative.com.
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April 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
if creative’s programmers can’t do it and these execs have a problem with someone doing their programmers job, they ought to take their foot out of this guys ass and hire him.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I can’t possibly agree more.
What is the motive behind retarding the use of their own product?
The world is full of people and companies that have shot themselves in the foot because of their massive egos and selfishness. “WE HAVE TO BE THE FIRST to invent it and we’ll step on the neck of anyone who makes an attempt before we do.”
That’s absolute total BS.
Those idiots at Creative should be fired if the rest of them want to survive as a company.