The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

its john dodds marketing because if the pervy fucker saw some young dolly bird with this laptop hed pull his old “you looking for a father figure” routine. i like dodds.

I’ll ignore those commenters who’ve been at their Molston already (though they did at least refrain from the obvious scatalogical references) and stick to the brief. It’s lazier than a planner in a focus group.

Pooh has nothing to do with computers, the “limited edition notebook” evokes nothing to do with Pooh once it’s opened unless it’s being used as an overpriced games console and the two should never

It has to be done cheaply because so few people will buy it. Far better to spend the time thinking of ways to tailor the product to actual technical needs of specific customer groups. But they clearly can’t actually do that because the fact that they chose this route is also an admission of the commodification of their technology.

if they used hello kitty or betty boop, they could have sold a shit load more.

Weird Lauren.. I was at Xidan yesterday and saw a Hello Kitty keyboard and got thinking along the same lines as this post today.

I don’t even have a visual of Jameson but I can’t get that smoking hot chick I saw over my McMuffin this morning out of my HEAD! 😉

IBM pulled off one of the best deals ever when it flogged their laptop division. People thought they were mad, but they knew exactly what they were doing.

Without doubt if they had a “Hello Kitty” version it would sell more, but the rights to that have already been sold – unsurprisingly to a Japanese computer manufacturer [they keep things inhouse there] – however as much as I hate the laziness of this marketing ploy, it has sold by the bucketload which will only encourage more of this low-thinking marketing which is tragic for everyone, especially the consumer.

Oh and thanks for telling Billy why a Jameson laptop would not be a wise longterm investment Lauren, but I don’t think he’s looking for a lifetime of use, just a quick bang on the keyboard 🙂

I really fucking love that Huggies idea actually – just like you said, it could end up being the ‘South Park’ of nappies, where kids love the cutesy characters whereas parents get the ‘subliminal’ adult humour.

I’d put it to them but given they fucked us with our ‘Protects You From People Full Of Crap’ campaign, I doubt they’ll listen to us without thinking we’re just a bunch of cheeky bastards.

I look forward to hearing you tell ol’ Stevie-boy that insight which he is bound to think is worth the copious amounts of cash he’s bestowing on you each month. Not that I’m jealous. Oh no …

Well, Winnie is probably the only reason to buy that lenovo shit, isn’t he? But I encourage manufacturers of all kinds of techstuff to shit out loads of limited editions. I would buy anything that fits my John Rambo underwear collection.

As subtle as an angry Andy after being cheated in a sarcasm contest.

The huggies idea is tops.

You could do a T5 version – it wouldn’t open properly and would keep breaking down. But it would get lots of publicity.

i know youre at dinner with him now campbell so under no fucking circumstances must i hear youve agreed to pay lee for his shitty nappies idea. they pay us remember. for fucks sake, i went into business with father fucking christmas