Early morning cycling is great fun. While it burns the kilos ( at least I hope it does), it also gives me the chance to scream my guts out at errant drivers, BPO cars, pedestrians, transport vehicles, autowallahs and motorcycle riders. No one is spared as I take on the role of the holier than thou vigilante spewing venom on every mistake I see people make.
Category: Technology
So , how do 2 companies that shaped an entire industry manage to go kaput in 2 years. Clearly Nokia and Blackberry rode the wave and fell hard. But just as you thought they had it in them to face the best in the world and resurrect from the brink, they unleash unpardonable ads. Ones that do no justice to their brands, their partner’s brands or just the wonderful products that they have just introduced. Begs the question – What are their marketers thinking ?
FYI: the draft for this post has been saved since July 2011. almost a year and 3 mobiles later, it still holds true.
Have had my share of mobiles. More than most in this country. From Panasonic to Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Blackberry and Samsung again. There was a Motorola thrown in for a short while too. Multiple models of most of these. Black /white screens, colour, keyboard before the word qwerty even came into the picture, touch screen, java, android… used them all. IOS admittedly is a glaring miss here thus far.
Have always been fascinated by science fiction.. Whether the tons of SFX films I saw as a 
kid was the reason why technology fascinates me even today, I cannot tell, but the magic of SFX laden movies enthrall me even today. As most kids do, you always see yourself as one of the lead actors or then try to figure which Indian actor could pull that stunt off.
My Blackberry has now completed a month and it isn’t saying a, lot when the only thing I am addicted to is brick breaker and BBM chat. Not that I ever expected a great phone… but with the ‘We are the blackberry boys’ campaign was definitely expecting something cooler. Talk about adverts raising expectations.
Had posted this late last year on my earlier blog.. seems even more relevant now… so a 
repost!
Cell wars have never been this interesting & exciting. The battle is brutal & even giants are being knocked off… like nine pins. Mantra is if you can’t keep up.. get off the track!