Foldera, Google, Marc Orchant and me - Odd man out!
Over at ZDNet, Marc Orchant has this to say in his article Foldera: Measure twice… cut once:
I applaud this strategy. The more forethought and preparation put into the launch, the better.
Marc was talking about the eMail sent out by Foldera CEO Marc Orchant stating that Foldera is postponing its launch, simply because:
“we didn’t have the firepower in our datacenter to handle the sort of demand indicated by so many registrations.”
I wish to make it known for the record, I haven’t received the mail, this snippet has been extracted from the mail extract that Marc posted in the article.
Marc goes on to say that even after the resounding success of Gmail and the early frustrations of Gmail users, Google did not learn. The result was apparent for everyone to see with the initial pull-backs of Reader and Pages.
Some (personal) observations:
- Personally, I believe Google did not pull back Pages because of high demand. It was probably due to a bigger glitch, something I have previously blogged about.
- Foldera may be stretching the public interest a little too far. Going by the conversation on Mike Arrington’s Techcrunch, Foldera should have been launched and here many times over by now.
- However, interesting a tool may be, the longer you take to launch, the shorter the buzz post-launch.
At least that’s what I think happened with Origami. Of course, Origami was a little early, about three years early, by my guess. In a world where laptops and palm-pilots have not yet become commonplace, introducing a gadget that was a level up in the futuristic scale seemed to me, a crazy idea.
One thing I have realized so far is:
“You can’t hurry up or slow down the future. It comes when it comes. You better be prepared for either case.” Probably that’s what Foldera is thinking. Or are they?
PS: I have decided to be a little more regular now. Hope to live upto my words…