OK.. Great minds think alike... Or maybe not. /grin
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:11, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone?
On 7/16/07, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains:
one on
"maisntream media": maybe tv, maybe radio, flyre, poster, newspapers,
wathever. This ads would be something like: "The free phone,
OpenMoko.
The only one with ...." "The OpenMoko: now with builtin navigator" and
so on. Don't even THINK of using "based on Linux Kernel 2.6.xx" or
"With
powerful ssh acess"
Calling it "the free(d) phone" to consumers (as opposed to developers)
is going to engender an enormous amount of confusion and ill-will.
Why? Because (at least in North America) the major carriers have spent
years, and billions of dollars, totally subverting the meaning of the
phrase "free phone" to mean "we give you the cheapest phone we can find
and don't charge you for this piece of junk when you lock into a two-
or
three-year plan at some exorbitant rate that obviously includes the
cost
of the phone amortized."
Seriously, ask consumers what a "free phone" means. at least 11 out of
10 will give you the definition above, at least the parts they
understand.
A consumer ad campaign is NOT the place to push the "free as in beer vs
free as in speech" argument. The phrase "free phone" already means the
opposite of what we want it to mean. It's done, finished, over. Move
on.
Call it something else in the consumer market. The Flexible Phone. The
Does-what-you-want-not-what the big corporations want. I don't know.
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