Weekend special..kind of / Ripley's believe it or not

Since we keep getting told that people should exercise "common sense" when it comes to Adam, I just dug some some gems from an old, well not very, interview that TabletRoms conducted with Rohan Shravan.

Now given the friendly relation between TR and NI, you would imagine that the CEO of Notion Ink would be quite honest with them.

Also imagine that you were a visitor that read these sentences and had no vague knowledge of what Adam is and no real idea of Notion Ink's poor track record, what would you think?

[This interview was in July 2011, which means statements that say they're already doing something... should probably be done for now, given this is a start-up n' all, you know]

"By the way we have a team working only on antennas and Adam 2 should have brilliant reception." We'll check that when Adam 2 releases.

"Eden 2 and Adam 2, in fact 3 as well are already underway " - Ah, I see. Eden 2 is already underway! Wait, this was July 2011. Has anyone ever bothered to ask them where this "underway" is right now? And if it's not "underway" anymore is there an explanation? Adam 3 was in progress too! Woohoo!

"Full scale expansion in 5 different countries in progress!" Oh wow! Which 5 countries? What does this even mean? O boy! O boy! Is this the same as Notion Ink's "strong partnership" with Amazon and TI and Quicklogic? Now that it's close to a year since this statement, can someone tell us how these full scale expansions went? Please - someone from TR?

"A Game Design Team is already doing excellent job!" - huh what? game .. design? OK, it's been a year now, can we see what game? Oh we shouldn't ask?

He mentioned that "they're on it" for camera, we all know where they're on it.

So gentlemen, if you don't have much background context into this company, see for yourself and what you would conclude. You would, innocently, believe that the next generation Eden was being done, the next 2 generations of the tablet were being designed, that the company was in expansion mode, and they were doing something serious in games.

Of course, no one bothers to follow-up on these words, because its easier to make weaselly excuses or find excuses for them. Does that mean all the above should have positively happened? No. But when someone says "we're already doing it" then they should come and say what's been done, and if not done, why not.

So, the question to the big fans. Should we believe these words or not?  Would you tell your friends to believe this or not (or would you come up with lawyerly cleverness to define what 'full scale expansion' means or what 'already underway' means --- kind of like Clinton defining what Sex is...)

Here is the original interview, in full - and oh, to the question of quality problems, he says "people need something to talk", yep - it's all fantastic quality from Notion Ink, it's all people's fault and lack of common sense.

Could TR do a follow-up interview with specific questions asking answers for these?