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Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Re: Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Post by booop »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #6
kevingadd wrote: post #3

This seems like something a competent editor would have removed from the post before it went up: "We could simply dismiss this Nestle boycott as the wibblings of a bunch of hypersensitive hippies. Which is pretty much how I view it myself for whatever little my personal opinion is worth."

Why? It's an opinion piece. Thus, it expresses the opinions of the author. You can see more, in a similar style, on their blog: http://timworstall.com/

Just wondering, why do you use 'their' when it's quite obvious that it's a man?

Re: Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Post by powatom »

prenna wrote: post #2

I'm going to leave Android and back to Ios if the next naming is kitkat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcxIksJFMs4 , that simple.

Arguing which is the lesser of two evils between Apple and Google is like deciding which fist a mugger hits you with.

Re: Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Post by patrickaljord »

prenna wrote: post #2

I'm going to leave Android and back to Ios if the next naming is kitkat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcxIksJFMs4 , that simple.

I'm sure this will greatly affect both Google and Nestle. On the other hand, that makes me want to buy a KitKat and the Nexus 5 :)

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

Re: Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Post by ig1 »

As I pointed out in the previous discussion, your smartphone, whatever the brand, almost certainly has metals mined or processed by children in dangerous and unhealthy work environments.

That has a much bigger impact on child health than some tenuous three degrees of separation link of a marketing partnership.

Re: Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Post by manojlds »

Can we boycott this author too -

> Indeed, if I worked on Infinite Loop or in Redmond I’d be phoning around the boycott groups to see who needs a little help in making some signs and organising transport for the demos expressing their outrage.

Re: Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Post by patrickaljord »

powatom wrote: post #13
prenna wrote: post #2

I'm going to leave Android and back to Ios if the next naming is kitkat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcxIksJFMs4 , that simple.

Arguing which is the lesser of two evils between Apple and Google is like deciding which fist a mugger hits you with.

Yes, how evil Apple and Google are. Giving jobs to thousands of people, creating new billion dollar markets, creating products billions of people love to use and buy. Evil indeed. How dare they really?

Re: Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Post by kevingadd »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #6
kevingadd wrote: post #3

This seems like something a competent editor would have removed from the post before it went up: "We could simply dismiss this Nestle boycott as the wibblings of a bunch of hypersensitive hippies. Which is pretty much how I view it myself for whatever little my personal opinion is worth."

Why? It's an opinion piece. Thus, it expresses the opinions of the author. You can see more, in a similar style, on their blog: http://timworstall.com/

The edit at the bottom of the post that was added in an attempt to make the article 'balanced' after Nestle's complaints makes it obvious that it is not just an opinion piece...

Re: Google Might Have Walked Into A Nestle Boycott Problem With Android KitKat

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Post by vdaniuk »

ProcessBlue wrote: post #8

This is a good example for how far Google has drifted away from having "Don't be evil" as a core tenet. No PR or marketing person with those words in mind would go near a company like Nestle. Dealing with a company whose CEO views the human right to access to clean water as "extreme" is not something Sergei or Brin would have done ten years ago. I wonder how many Google employees today would know the meaning of "Don'…

Google literally didn't do anything evil by releasing an update to Android with the codename same as a popular chocolate product, which is owned by a company with unethical practices. This is not evil unless you specifically redefine a meaning of the word.

Oxford dictionary

evil noun

profound immorality and wickedness, especially when regarded as a supernatural force: his struggle against the forces of evil

a manifestation of this, especially in people’s actions: the evil that took place last Thursday

something which is harmful or undesirable: sexism, racism, and all other unpleasant social evils

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