How Not To Advertise Your Crappy Product

Facing pressure from various competitors Quarbon has decided to get into the PowerPoint to Flash conversion market. Fortunately for their competitors, their product sucks. Apparently, they licensed their technology from a company called “Netron“ who doesn't seem to know much of anything about PowerPoint or Flash. Their status page clearly shows that all but one of the “very high“ priority items haven't even been started, but viewing one of Quarbon's sample presentations also quickly reveals that the few things they do support don't even work (and this is in their official product demos... audio doesn't play until you come back to the slide and placement is wrong the first time you view a lot of slides as well). What is even more hillarious is that if you view the product demo they have on their site, created with their viewlet builder, they have one of their main competitor's (Articulate's) product installed on the box. How can you tell this? Well, the “Articulate“ menu option is in plain view inside PowerPoint for the duration of their demo.

2 Comments

  • Yeah, I saw this too. Not only does Qarbon's ViewletPresnter not work, it does some naughty things in the installation. The worst being that it overwrites your current Flash OCX player with a previous (6,0,29) known bad one. This is some pretty sloppy development all around.

  • Ah well I guess you know all that stuff that I blathered on about in an archived post.



    Guess I should have read the front page first!



    Another funny thing about ViewletPresenter is that during installation it mentions Netron in the background image and gives their URL.



    Showing where you bought the code is not the best way to present a new product.



    It also says to me not to expect a whole lot of development from Quarbon. Or is that Netron?

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