Does this video series actually sell any blenders?
Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
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Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#22Now blend the cloud!!!!
Wouldn't that just be blending things from a datacenter?
Lest we let it slip our mind, the cloud is a still a group of real places, its just data/processing not near your location.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#23Now blend the cloud!!!!
"I wonder where the cloud is?"
When he finds the servers he'll blend them too :)
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#24Does this video series actually sell any blenders?
No one would've ever heard of Blendtec without them. I'm sure they've sold more than enough to recover the couple thousand dollars they've spent on the videos.
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#25While funny etc. We have so much waste in the world as it is - the last thing we need is the toxic waste of a perfectly good machine being blended and thrown out. I have never had respect for the 'will it blend' concept, regardless of how funny one may find it. It is simply wasteful.
It's advertising. Admittedly, I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I would imagine that the economic impact of this advertising is worth more than the cost for Google to send a CR-48 to be blended.
It might still be cheaper than some kind of elaborate ad with a lot of actors, scenes and stuff, and even have lesser environmental impact (one laptop is much less waste than, say, flight to some distant place to take the shots for an ad). So, yes, it can actually make sense.
But still, I just don't like the culture which shows that it's perfectly ok to smash and destroy stuff just for pleasure and marketing. Imagine that they would blend people in the show. Can't we have some respect for our machines as well?
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#26Does this video series actually sell any blenders?
Its all about mindshare, I am sure this series places BlendTec in your top 10 list of blenders. If you have never seen the series, it would never get on your top 100 (if there are that many).
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#27Does this video series actually sell any blenders?
I've spotted few of those blenders at Starbucks. Not sure if these videos are ones convinced vendor relations people though...
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#28What was that Google mantra again? Evil has many shades of grey but wasting a computer that could literally educate an entire schoolhouse in Africa and keeping this old, stupid joke going must be somewhere south of good.
Who's to say this old, stupid joke of a publicity stunt won't sell them enough cr-48's to give TWO cr-48's to schoolhouses in Africa instead of the one they started with? That's what business is, the classic best answer to "you have one egg. How do you make two?"
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#29I actually wanted to test my application on a Cr-48, but I didn't get one. Oh well. I keep forgetting that it's Microsoft that says "developers, developers, developers, developers".
You're joking, right? The fact that you weren't one of the thousands to receive a free laptop makes Google developer-unfriendly?