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Todd
And they are, for an April Fools joke!
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| And they are....
A matter of taste, I guess. I like to just stay
indoors and avoid the media on April Fools Day.
It's enough trouble trying to sort truth from
fiction on a normal day.![]()
And they are, for an April Fools joke!
http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/9496195/121124681/784580/13/
Hi Mayayana,
What was so bad about this jokes is that
is made perfect business sense. Have a
product people like and want to buy, improve
it and sell, sell, sell!
M$ doesn't realize in order to get people
to buy their new mouse traps, they have to make
better mouse traps. Since XP, their offerings
have been slower, clunkier, less compatible,
less stable. Did I mention SLOWER!
No business other than M$ on this planet would
try to sell worse stuff with a straight face.
That is why the above joke was cruel in so
many ways.
-T
April Fools day is my favorite "holiday". It's just plain fun..... And
dont require spending months spending of money and preparation.
And that's a big one. Plus it wasn't as stable (free from blue screens) if
you tinkered around with it.
Just like with smaller and smaller and "smarter" and "smarter" cellphones,
they're not interested in (or targeting) thix smaller group. Because that's
not where the money is. I think they know where the money is going to be
coming from.
Have you seen how difficult it is just to get a simple, basic, (and larger
screen) cell phone? For the same reasons. (Actually, I think there are
only two right now - ConsumerCellular, and Jitterbug.If I want all
that "smart" capability of a smartphone, I just use the computer at home.
It should be a national holiday
What was so bad about this jokes is that
is made perfect business sense. Have a
product people like and want to buy, improve
it and sell, sell, sell!
Have you seen how difficult it is just to get a simple, basic, (and larger
screen) cell phone? For the same reasons. (Actually, I think there are
only two right now - ConsumerCellular, and Jitterbug.If I want all
that "smart" capability of a smartphone, I just use the computer at home.
My phone is just for emergencies and occasionally a quick
call when I'm not at home. It's just a phone. I can make calls, send
texts, and get some very basic internet. I do like the internet for
getting weather radar and reports, that's about all I use the internet
part of it for.
A few weeks ago, I found an Apple I-phone laying on the sidewalk outside
of a bar. I picked it up and tried to turn it on, and figured I'd call
someone on the contact list, preferably one that says "mom" or something
like that. I screwed around with that thing for at least a half hour,
and could not get it to do anything except show me the time. Then it
started to ring. I could not figure out how to answer it, but I tried
to just talk into it, with no success. I finally went into the bar, and
saw a young guy talking on a smartphone. I approached him and asked him
if he knew how to operate it. He said no problem, and minutes later he
called someone from it, and a half hour later the owner came to get it.
That phone had at least 10 buttons on it, but none of them turned it on.
I asked thart young guy how to turn it on, and he showed me how to touch
the bottom of the screen...... You'd think they would have a label
saying ON/OFF there??????
| No business other than M$ on this planet would
| try to sell worse stuff with a straight face.
The part that gets me is they're also the only
company I know of that routinely markets by
saying, "Our last product was junk. You should
buy the new one."
[snip]
What was so bad about this jokes is that
is made perfect business sense. Have a
product people like and want to buy, improve
it and sell, sell, sell!
That it made good business sense is what I thought made it a
*good* joke.
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Mayayana said:| No business other than M$ on this planet would
| try to sell worse stuff with a straight face.
The part that gets me is they're also the only
company I know of that routinely markets by
saying, "Our last product was junk. You should
buy the new one."
Oh lots of companies market their new products this way. I could think
of endless list of examples.