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    Image of joelydanger joelydanger
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Bone-Chilling Sound of the Planets Won't Let You Sleep Tonight
    I had to find this as soon as I heard it. Perfect for when I'm modeling or sculpting or just trying to get some work done.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to The Bone-Chilling Sound of the Planets Won't Let You Sleep Tonight
    Terrible secret indeed.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Bone-Chilling Sound of the Planets Won't Let You Sleep Tonight
    Awesome, eerie sound. I was totally waiting for one of those pop-up screaming zombie heads at the end, though.
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Bone-Chilling Sound of the Planets Won't Let You Sleep Tonight
    That made me ramble an ad lib Star Trek "Captain's Log" while listening to it.
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    Image of En0s1 En0s1
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    I'll say it again, the biggest problem with the Droid and Android in general is that you can't explain what it does in a sentence. However misleading the statement, "it just works" or "there's an app for that" both let you know right away what they do and why you want it.

    If we were talking about a movie I'd wanna check out the Droid. If I didn't read Gizmodo I'd say, "hey that's cool" and buy an iPhone because I'd be sure there's an app for that.
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    Image of redman042 redman042
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    iDon't like the ad at all. Nicely done from a production / emotional standpoint, but it tells you nothing concrete about the product that any intelligent buyer would want to know. It highlights what I hate about most iPhone vs. other phone comparisons. Everyone wants to answer that question with their favorite soundbite and be done with it. No, you really need to look at the details and decide what's best for you.

    At least Apple's ads focus on important things like the ease of the UI, examples of what some of the best apps do, music and movies, etc. Maybe Verizon should just focus on what the Droid actually DOES, since that seems to be their tagline.
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    12/04/09

    In reply to Buy a Google Phone or Google Will Make Your Life Miserable
    Now that's funny!
    Better than the puppet videos from last week.

    After posting the "furniture" article Adam Frucci finds Google's threats to be hollow.
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    12/04/09

    In reply to Buy a Google Phone or Google Will Make Your Life Miserable
    Meh, their iPhone ones were better.
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    Image of dfp3050 dfp3050
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    I think the complicated smartphone is hitting their target market exactly. Here's why:

    The biggest complaint (well, one of the big complaints) of the iphone was it's "training wheels." The iphone was great in that it opened up a completely new market- the tech crowd. Now the tech crowd wants more in their phone and the iphone doesn't do enough. The whole idea of complicity and feature-rich hardware/software is speaking directly to the people who bought the first million iphones. This is their step up. The first-time-smartphone-buying crowd isn't the market Driod is going for.

    Just to be clear, this isn't a "shit all over iphone" comment. I'm just responding to the post above.
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    Image of tech-tard tech-tard
    12/04/09

    @dfp3050: Kind of like when many AOL subscribers "outgrew" the service and got real ISPs?
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    Image of dfp3050 dfp3050
    12/04/09

    @tech-tard: exactly!
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    It's an interesting campaign, but for those who know both phones it's kinda ridiculous.
    But, this is obviously not for the knowledgeable user, so not bad at all.
    What they are trying to do is no different from what Apple did for the iPhone though. Giving it a concept, an image that might become attached to it.
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    My girlfriend recently got an iPhone and I'm going to get a Droid as soon as my contract will let me. She left Verizon to get the iPhone and I'm staying with them.

    I'll admit, her iPhone is pretty cool, but I keep telling her that my Droid will be even cooler when I get it (which I mostly do to annoy her, but it might be true), yet she won't believe me...
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    Interesting approach, calling the potential customers you're trying to attract wusses.
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    That's a pretty manly commercial. It seems to me they are going with the macho approach and that the iPhone is for girls or something. It had some cool shots in it, though, but jeez, they're cell phones and if people buy one because of the ad and not for how it works then they deserve to get stuck with it.
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    Image of Zerod Zunaro Zerod Zunaro
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    Soon, you'll see ads like:

    -Hi, I'm a iPhone!
    -I'm a Droid

    -sigh-

    Here we go again.
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    Image of yantelope yantelope
    12/04/09

    In reply to Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as "Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen"
    "the Droid commercials may be going too far in the opposite direction with the whole DROID SMASH aesthetic. But that's just me, and, well, I bought one anyway—what do you guys think?"

    After Selling consumer electronics for a year I agree. People won't buy camera's with more than 3 buttons on them because it scares them. They like the little click wheels and that's about it.
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