<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
that was hysterical!!! <br><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Michael Hirsch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdhirsch@gmail.com" target="_blank">mdhirsch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Aaron Ruscetta <<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com" target="_blank">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> iPhone vs HTC Evo Android<br>
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</div><div>> Also, may be too true to be funny.<br>
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> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg</a><br>
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</div>No, that was so true it was hilarious. I laughed till I cried.<br>
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_______________________________________________<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">It's absolutely true (and hilarious). But phones aren't the worst arena where the marketing stupidity kicks in. As a cyclist I watch people become convinced that their weekend and evening cycling (requires that they be equipped for the Tour De France. About three years ago I did the MAAC's One Love Century (hundred mile bike ride) and wound up partnering with a guy who spent the last 20 miles of the ride trying to convince me that the reason I was struggling was that my $1000 road bike was inadequate, and that I should have a $5000 bike with a $400 wheelset like his. I tried to explain as gently as I could, that no, it was because I was (at that time) 57 years old, had already ridden 80 miles, and the temperature had reached 103 degrees. I expected to struggle, and having the latest in carbon fiber technology would only have helped me marginally.<br>
<br>Larry<br>-- <br>"I see design standards that don't tell you how to come up with a good design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that don't help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff, testing standards that don't tell you how to invent a test that is worth running."<br>
<br> Tom DeMarco<br> Slack<br>