I think I’m obsessed with Talking Carl
At this point, it’s not about the app. The drama surrounding the little red guy is shaping up to be more and more curious each day. Just a few moments ago, the following email arrived from the CEO of Awyse.
Subject: Apologies for the conviniences due to Talking Carl
To our valued customers,
I have received thousands of emails from Talking Carl customers who are upset about awyse changing Talking Carl by Talking C. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I would like to take a moment to thank each of you for your patience, understanding, and support during Awyse’s recent outrage.
We know how important Talking Carl is to you and your kids and we take any disruption to our service very seriously.
Second, we never wanted to hurt any of you. We always aimed to bring you entertainment by the best technology.
Third, we want you to know we are doing our best to bring you your beloved Carl back!
As a valued customer of Awyse, we’d like to apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of awyse
Thank you for allowing Talking Carl to be a part of your life.
If you require any additional information please visit our official Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter.
Kind regards,
G. Carre
CEO
Let’s ignore for a moment the “apologies for the conveniences” subject line, since I suspect that English is not Mr. Carre’s first language and that this was not meant to be unintentionally funny.
But I’m confused, specifically with respect to the line, “we are doing our best to bring you your beloved Carl back.”
Does this mean Awyse is working with yann lecoroller again?
If not, and based on yann’s previous statement, I was lead to believe that he was the owner of the intellectual property behind Talking Carl’s identity, if not the code itself. And if that is indeed true, how in the world can Awyse promise something like this?
My suspicion is that the contract between Awyse and Yann was poorly written, and what we’re witnessing is a battle over the ownership of the Talking Carl brand being played out in public.
Despite including links to their Facebook and Twitter pages, there’s no further clarification given there. And so, I’ve reached out to both yann and Awyse for clarification and will provide an update once I have something more to report.
Which I hope is soon. I never intended my first post on this to be any more than a casual observation on a design mistake by an App Store developer. And following this saga is turning out to be my new hobby.
