Perhaps someone in marketing took the instruction literally of "We need to improve the visibility of our Brand". Three decades of cold dead fish indeed.

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roy Brown
Sent: July-13-11 7:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] A well respected Brand?

In:-

<URL:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388208,00.asp>

John Dvorak writes:-

"Is the HP marketing department high? I do not want to go point-by-point, but Russell Brand, for starters, normally portrays a sleazebag and generally plays that character all the time—even during personal appearances. How does this foster a love for an HP tablet or Veer phone? "Hey, I'm a sleazebag. I buy HP!"  "

Yep, certainly Veering off course there....

This is the same Russell Brand of:-
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand_Show_prank_telephone_call
s_row>

John Dvorak is careful to only say 'plays a sleazebag', but I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.

Anyway, there's Brand, apparently endorsing the HP TouchPad, because he's on the iCarly show (I guess nobody has made an iLeo show yet).

I wonder if he'll use its marketing slogan - "Works But Nothing Else"?

Oh no, hang on, ermm.... can that be quite right? :-)
-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *