parkerpyne t1_j3w8f4p wrote
Reply to comment by 961402 in Remember NYCTrainSign? by hampelm
>There's another company out there that's selling offering for pre-order more realistic looking signs that are probably not much internally different than the one in this article. Only they have nicer looking cases and cost upward of $1K.
Interestingly, they seem to be targeting more of a corporate environment which I reckon is more lucrative. Their Integration section at least seems to imply this.
But at the same time, they do present themselves as a quirky etsy project which won't help with what they seem to intend to be the target group.
On a side note: Why does the MTA not provide such devices and services? I reckon every corporate office in Manhattan would put in one of those. They could charge $20k for an installation and that wouldn't even be a drop in the bucket for corporate enterprises.
961402 t1_j3wc6ph wrote
I think they don't mostly because I believe the target group for these things are likely transit nerds.
The MTA website or CityMapper works well for most of us and we don't need a sign on the wall that tells us that the next Queens-bound R train will be there in ten minutes.
I guess the other target audience are companies etc. that want to remind you that they are NYC-based. I can very easily imagine seeing one of these on the wall in the common area of a Bay Area office of an NYC-based company.
parkerpyne t1_j3xsltk wrote
>I guess the other target audience are companies etc. that want to remind you that they are NYC-based. I can very easily imagine seeing one of these on the wall in the common area of a Bay Area office of an NYC-based company.
Oh, yeah, a total gimmick. But it's the kind of thing that corporations love to put into their common office areas to appear cool and edgy to guests.
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