Samsung and Google pull Nexus Prime, and say it’s ‘just not the right time’
Odd article on TechRadar about Samsung and Google pulling the Nexus Prime product announcement:
Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall.
We agree that it is just not the right time to announce a new product. New date and venue will be shortly announced.
TechRadar leaps to the conclusion a lot of other sites have come to:
It’s likely that the companies decided to postpone as a mark of respect to rival Steve Jobs, who passed away earlier this week.
If so, that would be astonishing from a business standpoint, allowing a rival to steam forward, because an industry figurehead has passed away. Frankly, I don’t believe it for a second. Maybe I’m just a big ol’ cynic but I reckon if this really was the case for the delay, the joint statement would (and should) have said so. Instead, chances are that the delay is down to other reasons (technical, or just not wanting to get buried in the tech press, which, clearly, mostly has Steve Jobs on its mind right now), and the statement has been cunningly worded.
Call me a cynic, but thats a vague enough statement to allow people to interpret it as Jobs-related, while meaning something else.
Hmm.
Update: All THings D now reports:
We believe this is not the right time to announce a new product as the world expresses tribute to Steve Jobs’s passing.
So, turns out I am a cynic, but this is also a lesson in communication for Google and Samsung: say what you mean and don’t be vague.
My suspicion is something in the 4S announcement is either
A) Something they can jam in at the last moment
B) Laughably similar to something they already had in there and they want to pull it and launch the Prime without being sued in the face. Again.