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Any thoughts on this?
El Bro, good lookin' out on the forefoot airsoles. (Can't believe I forgot about this.) Yes, Nike was actually able to find a material/gas solution that eliminated SF6 using the existing blowmold technology (so the geometry stayed exactly the same, and the seams remained in the middle of the visible window). However, this solution worked for low-profile forefoot airsoles only! When this same approach was tried on heel and full-length airsoles, though, it failed spectacularly... the thermoforming technology is the only way to make those taller types of airsoles work. So that's why you may still see some forefoot airsoles with seams, paired up with newer heel units.
@typecast3:
"its half true and half hog wash because this guy is spinning it from Nike's point of view."
I clearly said that I've been closely involved, and that I'm speaking for myself.
"this isn't exactly what happened and notice the lack of any type of sources."
I am the source. Me. I personally worked on the team solving these problems for close to seven years. If you want to troll and pretend you know something I don't, knock yourself out... it's a free internet. As I said, this was my first post after lurking for 5+ years, so I can understand questioning based on that. If you seriously need references, though, I can think of at least one longtime NT moderator that'd vouch for my credibility.
"LOL that it took this guy 30 min of venting to just say that."
It took a lot more than that. First of all, I'm lucky enough to have (I think) one of the greatest jobs I can imagine. I tried to get my foot in the door here for four years. Once I got in, spent almost seven years working hard on these airsole issues before transitioning into the dream job I've been wanting this whole time. I finally made it and it's as great as I hoped it would be... better, even. Honestly, it's up there with getting into/graduating from college, meeting/marrying my wife, and having our kids on the "greatest things I accomplished in my life" scale.
Having said that, the safest thing for me is to assume that anything I say in a public internet forum about my employer could be traced back to me somehow, so I'm never, ever going to jeopardize what I've worked so hard for by A) lying about Nike stuff, or B) blurting out some secret, proprietary knowledge just so I can impress a bunch of people on the internet I've never met. So you can be sure that anything I post here will be non-secret truth, that I've written and rewritten and carefully thought over to make sure I'm not endangering myself. The only reason I spoke up in the first place is that the truth is actually, publicly out there (in the BusinessWeek article MrKrispy posted) but that many people who are truly interested (you all) didn't know about it, and I could help by filling in the boring scientific details of why the airsole windows had to change, to those connoisseurs who'd appreciate it. That's all.
SUPER APPRECIATED sir......my question is why hasn't nike advertised it at all.....? did they think by not saying anything now one was going tocomplain?
