I must have missed that droid ad. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:44 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:37 AM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can take screenshots, don't think it's built in though. > > Speaking of the coming of the "Droids," here is what the Motley > Fools say about the $100 million ad campaign recently launched on TV. > They felt the same uneasy and shuddering feeling I have when I see the > ads. > > "Between the calculatedly folksy Americana, the loving depiction of > military hardware, the mass destruction plunging from the heavens in > trails of fire, and the transforming robots, someone at that ad agency > has clearly seen way too many Michael Bay movies. (It lacks only > shirtless, sweaty Marines and an American flag waving against a > sunset.) > > Even if you ignore the ad's queasy combination of warfare and > commerce -- I don't exactly want to buy a product being sold via a > bombing run -- I simply can't understand how Motorola, Verizon, and > Google think that positioning their product as a destructive, hostile > menace is going to endear it to anyone. The iPhone's ads make it look > cool, hip, and empowering. This Droid ad makes it seem poised to > enslave us all." > > Steve > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
