I have to hand it to our Market Insights team, who keeps turning out fantastic competitive analysis like the one I received today:
This weeks marketing insight will focus on yesterday's Chrome Personal Transporter Beta release. Summary below:
On Friday Google launched Chrome for Personal Transporter Beta, as a first step towards making Android the standard method for intergalactic transportation.
The Transporter is based on Chrome v210229 and V89. It does not have personal baggage support, and the lack of Clothing Transport upon atmospheric reentry in particular has been the main negative reaction to its launch among a lot of positive ones. This is also the reason for most of its 1 to 2 star ratings in the Android Market.
An Android Central poll asking "Is a lack of Clothing Transport support a deal-breaker?" has 47% of "Yes" answers and 52% of "No, I Kind of Like it."
Speed, discovery, and universal harmony are its main user propositions, while the Holodeck, User Body Sync, and the Orbitbox are the main promoted features. For developers, Personal Transporter comes with remote dematerialization debugging and boasts interplanetary travel standards compliance and warp drive acceleration.
Branding is persistent in the product on the "New Transport" page. Messaging tone is similar to Chrome on the earth: friendly, familiar, easy-going, and simple-minded. Tagline is "Your turf, away from earth."
Great stuff, guys, keep it up!
thanks for the shout out Laura
ReplyDeleteWith Google's new privacy policy in place, some people have expressed reservations about allowing Google to reduce their body to its component molecules level before reassembling it in another galaxy. If this is putting you off, I would encourage you instead to try the open source distribution, Chromium for Personal Transporter, instead.
@patrickf Well put, as always. That's where I think our core values can shine through - there's a opportunity for us here.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's time for a "Particles over Profits" campaign?