I always wanted this house to exist somewhere. However, I’ll just have to build it myself!
How Alfred Hitchcock and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer put a Frank Lloyd Wright house on top of Mount Rushmore in spite of common sense, Frank Lloyd Wright and the United States Government. Sort of.
Imagine that you’d spent a couple of months trying to get a product to work. That the support line of the company that made the product showed themselves to not being able to understand the issue. After months of this you’d given up on the product and replaced it at great cost.
Then the CEO of the company that made the product said this…
“For a CEO of a start up who launches a new product what just happened to me is very discouraging.”
It maybe upsetting for you but I assure you that being a customer was worse. Especially, when I read constantly that your company had recently started making serious money on the back of a dud product.
Why is the CEO upset; because people dared to rain on a new product launch…
“I wrote a post about the new Fonera SIMPL that we will soon launch, I mentioned that is called SIMPL because as opposed to the Fonera 2.0N it is not a buffer to the cloud, and I was surprised at the amount of extremely negative comments that I got about the quality of the Fonera 2.0N.”
Worse, it seems that the little bubble of protection around our CEO was caused by reading popular blogs.
“I am suprised because the reviews we got in blogs like Techcrunch, Wired, Boing Boing and many others are positive and the comments that you can see here are extremely negative.”
Mr CEO, do you really believe that Wired plugged in the model and used it for more than a couple of hours. Trying living with this Fonera; it doesn’t work.
For the other point of view…
How do I get a ticket to this next year?
If only it was this easy…
Hell Freezes Over: Google and the Super Bowl | twopointouch.
Under a headline that should have read “BBC journalist feels a little low after breaking leg skiing” we head off into the usual strange world of Paris as reported by the BBC.
Of course, Parisian taxis are a nightmare. However, did you ever see “reporting” as obviously made up as this?
Somewhat stupefied, I hailed the next cab in line and politely asked the driver if I could sit up front as it was easier for my leg.”I’m not arranging my whole damn cab to accommodate you,” he snapped. “I’ve got all my personal things piled on the front seat!”
I’m surprised that the helpful taxi driver didn’t shout out the window the numbers of the laws he was breaking. Just to make the story easier to write.
To anyone who’s lived here a while the best is saved till last. Bubble gum chewing fashion experts! Where was this shop? Kent?
Look how small the education budget is. They pay more just in net interest!
Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com
“Amazon’s purchase of Touchco can be thought of as a direct response to Apple’s iPad, and the technology acquired could be included in the next iteration of its Kindle e-reader.”
AppleInsider | Amazon acquires touch-screen maker for future Kindle project.
I don’t understand. Everyone has been talking about Apple and their book ready for at least a year. Amazon did nothing during that whole period; then in the same week as the Apple launch they go to war with the publishers and start buying technology companies.
This must be too late now.
A few years ago at LeWeb a man with a heavy accent that I couldn’t place got on stage and talked about starting a business in Europe. He was interesting and funny and talked about Fon. I think that Martin Varsavsky gives the same impression to a lot of people. Therefore, I got a Fon and loved it.
For many years since that date I’ve not used the WiFi in my ADSL box and relied on the Fon routers. I’ve given them to family and friends as presents and even stuck the Fon sticker on my office window (the only sticker that is there!).
Then last year I bought the latest and “greatest” router. The 2.0n. I kept it alive for a couple of months. It never worked; constant issues, poor performance, a real mess.
I was so convinced that Fon was perfect it took a few weeks for me to realize that the issue was with their machine. Today, the Fon router lies unplugged on a shelf. One Time Capsule purchase later and I don’t think that it’ll be ever used again.
What went wrong?
I believe that the clue is in here…
FON, the iPhone and Mobile Operators
Fon no longer relies on their own hardware. They rely on these partnerships where they live on someone else’s hardware. The focus of the company has moved on, I doubt that their latest boxes will ever live up to the standard of the original white ones.
And so ends an era. Onwards!
And none of it is real. Not one brick…