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Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by fnordfnordfnord »

calinet6 wrote: post #176
peanut3 wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow -- you managed to call crass, vapid consumerism built around substandard unhealthy confection 'authentic and refreshing'. That's impressive. What would be more impressive is if Google hadn't sold out their userbase to Idiocracy-style co-branding with a diabetes inducing sugar product. In other news: This is a Pepsi Cola Comment: Maximize Your Thrist!

The measure of marketing is effectiveness, not moral validity. I'll let you judge that for yourself (and you clearly have).

>A success of honesty and humanity

That may be just a bit much.

I liked the rest of it though, it is fun.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by yaddayadda »

ArekDymalski wrote: post #86
ctdonath wrote: post #17

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Nothing says "solid, responsive, enterprise-grade, consumer-pleasing data access" like candy. (Yes, I know this complaint is old, and dessert/snack is the Android naming theme. Nobody is buying in because of the meme; a lot of people are opting out because of it.)

Most mormal people don't even know that their phone's OS has such a thing like version, code name etc. Actually there are people who don't know what OS is and which one they use.

Who exactly are "mormal" people?

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by rplst8 »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #171
TylerE wrote: post #103

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Huh? You can buy them at any corner gas station.

You can buy Hershey Kit Kat (made under license) in the US at any corner store, complete with artificial flavor. Nestle Kit Kat (the original) tastes better.

I've tasted both. Not much difference.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by rplst8 »

untog wrote: post #25

This honestly makes me wonder: what is the point of web sites for stuff like KitKat? Clearly, they can replace the entire thing for the purposes of a joke so it can't be that high up there. Who visits those sites? What do they do on them? The Nestle/Hersheys site, sure. Standard corporate stuff. But a site specifically for KitKat? EDIT: there seems to be some confusion in the replies. I am not talking about this joke…

Nutritional info.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by ChuckMcM »

I thought this was really clever, and interestingly desperate. Maybe I've been around too long but there is always a warning twitch I get when tech companies get too cute. Sort of a "you're really trying too hard here."

I enjoyed the parody, I agree with others here that it was totally planned by the Google team ahead of time, but the shift in pure marketroidness, well it was just kinda "eww."

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by stan_rogers »

interpol_p wrote: post #167
unoti wrote: post #111

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My favourite part of it is how he pronounces portrait as "Pour Trait". It makes me wish I'd learned to speak English where they talk like that, or it at least makes me laugh.

How else do you pronounce portrait?

In most of North America, at least, it would be something like por'trit (the second syllable is much de-emphasized, but the vowel is closer to a short i than a schwa).

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by kenko »

Everlag wrote: post #132
jahewson wrote: post #84

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You'd be better off with an Apple...

Man, apple is such a closed system. People aren't allowed to mod it at all without breaking through the layers of obfuscation and bollocks. Further more, kitkat is basically open source with how it gives you the tech specs and all those sweet diagrams. If you want a closed system that accepts no mods or changes, go apple. If you desire something more open go kitkat!

Actually, apples hybridize very easily.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by peanut3 »

calinet6 wrote: post #176
peanut3 wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow -- you managed to call crass, vapid consumerism built around substandard unhealthy confection 'authentic and refreshing'. That's impressive. What would be more impressive is if Google hadn't sold out their userbase to Idiocracy-style co-branding with a diabetes inducing sugar product. In other news: This is a Pepsi Cola Comment: Maximize Your Thrist!

The measure of marketing is effectiveness, not moral validity. I'll let you judge that for yourself (and you clearly have).

So this effusive line: "A success of honesty and humanity that may or may not be insanely successful, but is at least authentic and refreshing."

Was actually about effectiveness?

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