I find it somewhat ironic that this video will not play on my CR-48.
I just watched it on mine. You need to go to settings and enable the media player. It pops up a little player like the download and im windows.
Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
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Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#82Only question with the blending, have they ever tried blending another blender (same model etc)?
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost the entire advertising industry is pure waste, whether they are physically destroying laptops or not.
WTF? I know it's cute to be all anti-advertising here, but really? Shows a distinct lack of a clue about what service advertising offers people, why it's crucial, and why it makes a ton of money for all involved. Advertisers don't waste money. They carefully use money by investing it in advertising which (when done properly) nets them a positive ROI.
I wonder what you think the net benefit to society of all those years and billions of dollars for Alcohol and Tobacco advertizing where? It's possible for a parasitic relationship to be wonderful for the parasite, but that says nothing about the host.
PS: For many products advertizing does not increase sales rather it allows a higher price per unit to be charged. Depending on the demand curve restricting supply, increasing price and spending money on advertizing can be better for a supplier than producing more product of identical quality.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#84Google did another advertisement where they destroy at least 5 laptops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo&feature I used to think that "Will it blend" was funny. Maybe the novelty of it has warn off. Instead of laughing, watching this video made me wince.
I had the same weird feeling watching that video. There is something fundamentally wrong there. I'm especially worried about the last part when the little girl destroying the last CR-48: she was so calm to do that without a blink. I was shocked. This is not the way we teach our children. [edit]: there's a tagline said by the demo guy in the video: “good thing I get a new one every time”. This kinda thinking bothers m…
I'm pretty sure the creepy ice cream child was an actor.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#85While 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's advertising. How meta.
As I ponder the implications of Google engaged in this publicity stunt, I wonder. Was this device, sent off to sacrifice, my CR-48, lost in shipping?
As my desk maintains an empty spot, so carefully cleared, in anticipation of the arrival of the CR-48, perhaps now, my eagerness and expectation will turn regret, as I consider the future that may never be... Google, I beg you, send me my CR-48. .
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost the entire advertising industry is pure waste, whether they are physically destroying laptops or not.
WTF? I know it's cute to be all anti-advertising here, but really? Shows a distinct lack of a clue about what service advertising offers people, why it's crucial, and why it makes a ton of money for all involved. Advertisers don't waste money. They carefully use money by investing it in advertising which (when done properly) nets them a positive ROI.
> Advertisers don't waste money. They carefully use money by investing it in advertising which (when done properly) nets them a positive ROI.
Back before the Internet revolutionized advertising, this was one of my favorite quotes about advertising: "I know half of my advertising money is wasted. The problem is, I don't know which half."
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost the entire advertising industry is pure waste, whether they are physically destroying laptops or not.
WTF? I know it's cute to be all anti-advertising here, but really? Shows a distinct lack of a clue about what service advertising offers people, why it's crucial, and why it makes a ton of money for all involved. Advertisers don't waste money. They carefully use money by investing it in advertising which (when done properly) nets them a positive ROI.
Secretly murdering people and then robbing their house has a positive ROI for the murderer too; what a bogus form of argument. You don't look at one party's ROI, you look at the costs and benefits for everyone.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
WTF? I know it's cute to be all anti-advertising here, but really? Shows a distinct lack of a clue about what service advertising offers people, why it's crucial, and why it makes a ton of money for all involved. Advertisers don't waste money. They carefully use money by investing it in advertising which (when done properly) nets them a positive ROI.
Secretly murdering people and then robbing their house has a positive ROI for the murderer too; what a bogus form of argument. You don't look at one party's ROI, you look at the costs and benefits for everyone.
advertising rarely causes anyone harm.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Secretly murdering people and then robbing their house has a positive ROI for the murderer too; what a bogus form of argument. You don't look at one party's ROI, you look at the costs and benefits for everyone.
advertising rarely causes anyone harm.
Two companies (let's say Coke and Pepsi) are engaged in an advertising war.
Coke hires a graphic designer to draw a cool logo.
Pepsi has to fire back and do the same.
In the end both of their brand statures remain them same, and two artists who would rather have spent their time working on something else had their time wasted, due to a particular incentive structure.
Everyone acted in their own interest, and individually had a positive ROI. Yet collectively, the ROI was negative. Coke's action had a negative externality on Pepsi; Pepsi fired back with an action that had a negative externality on Coke.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#90What 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?"
My point is that there are more positive ways to make two than by destroying one. If Google is just interested in getting publicity for the cr-48 they might as well join Cheerios on Days of Our Lives.