I followed along Yesterday afternoon as Steve Jobs descended from the heavens carrying the new
Apple iPad -- the product is hardly revolutionary but the big miss for the apple team is in the product name – you would think in company full of geniuses some one would have cautioned against releasing a product called "
iPad".. I guess no one at Apple HQ watches Mad TV...
Andy, someone on apple's marketing team just lost their job..
They have an article on CNN that was talking about how ipad was #1 topic on twitter and itampon was #2 lmao did they NOT have women on heir marketing team ?!
ReplyDeletelol good point -- guess they didn't have any women on that team...
ReplyDeleteLOL Im so glad I clicked!
ReplyDeleteOk so, firstly, who wears pads? It didn't even cross my mind! I guess they didn't think much of it cause the younger generation uses tampons, instead, I even know people that have gotten those shots to not get their periods anymore. I wouldn't have thought it would be a big deal, and since when is publicity a bad thing? no one like to talk about periods, I know, but I'm sure it didn't hurt sales.
Agreed it probably wont hurt sales at all… an your right we've been told "any publicity is good publicity" .. But really apple -- the best you could come up with was "iPad".. (c'mon son)
ReplyDeletethis is funny, also its crazy cuz the clip is almost 3 years old now!
ReplyDeletehaha madtc saw into the future...
didnt microsoft have something very similar in the works? i think it was called "surface".
ReplyDeletetoo funny! I don't think i'll ever get used to that name
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