From: John Hay (OceanCity_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Oct 13 2005 - 11:50:34 PDT
I scribed ambiguously.
10/13/05 Lord Groundhog issued the following and I have taken literary
license to pass it along on a "Need to Know Basis" . . . ?
>John,=20
>
>I like the picture, although I admit the stickers are a bit more "in yer
>face" than I'd like personally.
I understand. It's simply my effort to merchandise to a new generation
of possible users, as well as to repel thieve. Although I generally
subscribe to the "less is more" design and was not raised an car
crashes, exploding helicopters, and SFX's at the movies, today's masses
seem to have become numbed to things plain. By adding a little [perhaps
I added too much] color and requisite in-your-face branding symbology I
note a four-fold level of curiosity from strangers asking me "what's
that?" It gives me a chance to explain "well, this is the new PDA
prototype Apple is beta-testing". After all the uoos, and ahhhs, then I
smirk back, well actually this is called a Newton and go on to explain
as long as they want to hear. For me it's an opportunity to seek up
through the back door. Like they say in marketing, first you have to get
their attention, then hit them over the head <g>, or is that visa vera ;-)
The second reason for the stickers is that when you realize your wallet
just got stolen simply retrace your steps to the trash cans along your
path. Keep looking until you see your wallet. It will have been
emptied of the cash and credit cards. Nothing you can do about the cash
but call your credit card companies within five minutes as the thieves
know they only have a limited amount to time to run up as many charges
as possible. The reason you look in the trash cans is the last thing in
the world a their wants in their possession is anything identifiable
that would incriminate them. Given the choise of at the local starbucks
window counter of two unattended laptops side by side, would you lift
the plain unmarked PowerBook laptop or one that's been customized or
embellished, everything else being equal, which one would you go for?
>But it's not much of an argument. An
>article looking at the pros and cons would be interesting, or is there one
>I've overlooked? For example, I think it might be interesting to see a
full debate of the
>convenience of integrating the phone with the hardware and software you want
>to link through a phone, versus the problem of having your whole PDA
>crippled by a breakdown of the phone portion, or perhaps the problem of
>having your PDA become [read: "seem"] obsolete just because its inbuilt
>phone technology is a bit long-in-the-tooth.
>
>And what about solutions? Perhaps a way out is to have a removable phone
>module that slots into the PDA, and can be removed when necessary for repai=
>ror upgrading. OTOH, wouldn't this limit the phones available for use with
>the PDA more than simply keeping the devices separate?
MY GOD, NOW WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF **THAT**. Now you're talking
**design**!!!!!!!
I'm contacting the patent office right NOW!!!!!!!
Apple, are you lurking, of course you are. How 'bout it? Maybe you're
already on this, let's hope so. It'll be another remarkable new
announcement you can make, this time with all the fanfare AND some meat !
>
>Of course it's likely that the people designing this stuff aren't listening
>to us, but the discussion would still be interesting to read and think
>about.
You'd better believe they are listening, reading, pondering each and
ever word we write. There one slip up would be to reply by accident
revealing their silent presence on this list. Hi Apple people, glad
you're here!!!! Never look back, that is unless it's to learn from
history ;-)
John
>
>Shalom.=20
>Christian=20
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