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The new Droid ad infers that other touch phones are beauty queens while the Droid is ugly but functional.  The metaphor the commercial uses is a racehorse duct taped to SCUD missile.  I’m not a marketing whiz by any stretch of the imagination but I think Verizon and Droid need to seriously consider connecting their service and phone with a 1950’s era missile that has been used to attack Israel in 1977,  fired by both Iran and Iraq during their war in the 80’s, and used against US troops in the first Gulf War.

Watch carefully and you’ll see that the missile doesn’t appear to be a SCUD at all but, resembles the American Polaris missile.

I suppose Verizon and Droid want to emotionally connect their phone with a Soviet weapon system employed by such wonderful countries as North Korea, Iran, and Vietnam for some particular reason.  Perhaps Droid is going to go for the left over international market where other touch phones are not available. Why would you sell to the American market by comparing your product to an adversarial missile system?

After a long break the podcasts are back.  I received an email from Verizon about some comments that were posted on the Concord Monitor’s web site.  I cover some of the hightlights from E3 and talk about the troubles with Conficker seen in certain hospitals.  Short show this week, working on getting back into a regular groove.

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I know I’ve been very delinquent in my podcast.  I’m recording a new episode tonight and will post it shortly.  Lots to talk about!  I received a reply from a Verizon spokesperson addressing some of the comments flying around blogs about the Fairpoint and Verizon hand-off.  Plus more security stuff and WWDC is coming up next week.

After a lengthy trip out of state, I’m home. I received a great email from Verizon about some of the posts that have been made on the Concord Monitor’s web site related to the hand over between Fairpoint and Verizon. A real post is coming soon and I will start recording podcasts again, very soon.