Reklamens magt
Wired har en fin artikel om Androids tilbliven, hvor specielt lanceringen af den første telefon, Droid, viser reklamens magt:
But that optimism faded a few months later, in the spring of 2009, when the first prototype arrived in the Android offices. To Rubin’s eyes, they looked nothing like the designs Jha had presented. Indeed, they were hideous. Yes, there is always a gap between a manufacturer’s sketches and the eventual prototype, but Rubin and his team had so much faith in Jha that they expected him to deliver a phone much closer to the one he had pitched. Despair set in. “It looked like a weapon. It was so sharp and jagged and full of hard lines. It looked like you could cut yourself on the edges,” says someone who saw the prototype. “We were really concerned. There were a lot of conversations where we asked, ‘Is this really the device we want to do? Should we try to talk Motorola out of it?’”
Man havde ikke råd til at udsætte premieren mere så et ungt reklamebureau fik en uge til at finde på noget. Resten er historie (og ren Mad Men!).
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