Comment advertisingsucks (Score 1) 82
A great man once said, "By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself." His name was Bill Hicks.
Dan Dreiberg: What happened to us? What happened to the American Dream?
Edward Blake: "What happened to the American Dream?" It came true! You're lookin' at it...
Two points I'd like to make :
A, I do not like having to sacrifice visual usability for security. iMessage is not visually pleasing to say the least.
B, In other news, US to declare all users of iMessage "digital home grown terrorists."
If any of these old fantastical story books were so true... why do their followers spend all their time trying to convince others?
Working in education below college... I think I see the same thing occurring, really. Teachers/Professors are threatened by technology in the classroom. Their teaching has been generally unchanged for the last X amount of time... and the introduction of devices, especially those connected to the web (which I think increases concern), makes them nervous because students will be able to access information that the teachers/professors might not know of or about. It's a dangerous proposition to them, when confronted with the fact that students may enter a class knowing more then them.
It's been my experience that while they can be excited by technology, they are also fearful of it. Control of the environment plays into this as well. Just my
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