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KitKat's new website
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Re: KitKat's new website
#122One question I have is why Google (If this website is Google's) is hosting their stuff on Amazon?
Why would Google own kitkat.com?
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#123I enjoyed it. It appears I'm in the minority.
Yeah, those whiney commenters should take a break!
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rather than "truly horrible", it's fairer to say that it's controversial in the UK. For example, on one hand there has been a long standing boycott at university Student Unions, on the other about everybody has a Nescafé tin at home.
I for one don't have any Nescafé tins at home and refuse to purchase any of their chocolate or breakfast cereals, too. I realise you said "about", and I'm only one person, but I think you overestimate their reach; I know others who adopt the same stance. I'd go so far as to say that Nestlé are up there alongside The Sun (british newspaper) and Sky TV when it comes to 'most boycotted' here in the UK. Only time will te…
> I'd go so far as to say that Nestlé are up there alongside The Sun (british newspaper) and Sky TV when it comes to 'most boycotted' here in the UK
Given that The Sun is the most circulated paper in the UK [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unite...] and Sky TV claims to reach 1 in 6 people in the UK [http://corporate.sky.com/media/key_facts_and_figures] I would completely agree with your statement that the Nestlé boycott is as effective as these others.
Re: KitKat's new website
#125Pretty. But do there exist web browsers that display these scroll-to-animate sites correctly? Using either mousewheel or dragging the scrollbar (or worse still, dragging on an iPad), it's never anything but choppy choppiness and I miss important bits of text as they scroll past entirely between the little click stops on my mouse wheel. Surely it must be possible to actually view these sites, as evidenced by the fact…
Recent version of all browsers have roughly the same performance. But you need relatively new hardware. Old p4 and on-board graphics card won't handle it.
Smooth is one part of the problem, the other is getting stuck between two "frames" after scrolling: http://imgur.com/gtJGtsT.png
Scrolling gives you no visual feedback for "content units" like margins around paragraphs or headers. You cannot be sure if a "frame" has all its animation loaded until you scroll down - up - down a little bit. Imho that's not a pleasant experience.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Next time I upgrade, I've got my eye on fairphone.com, for what it's worth. Not quite sure what that argument has to do with my preposition though. I had no such illusions about my phone manufacturer (Samsung). Google set out on a different path ("Do No Evil"), but turns out they're not much different to Samsung et. al. now, and that was my argument. Many still see them as working in a different way, but they do…
The argument is that there were previous "hook-up"s between Google and vile companies before Nestle, namely Samsung.
Those associations, while not by any means ideal, are somewhat necessary. As inferred by the argument it's hard to find ethical phone companies at that scale.
There is absolutely no need (at least technologically) for this link up. Its purely brand marketing, and they picked the wrong brand.
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#127Off topic, but did they get an engineer to write the content? "Thanks to its world-renowned, tri-core, wafer thin CPU with full chocolate coverage." If this is intentional sarcasm it is tasteless (pun intended)
"No matter what kind of break you're looking for, with 2 mega-bites, 4 mega-bites or a chunky-bite option, we've got it covered"
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
You realize your smartphone almost certainly has metals mined or processed by children in dangerous and unhealthy work environments ?
And that's certainly bad, but Nestle have carried out about 10 other known immoral practises in their history, including the use of child slave labour, so they pretty much 'win' that one hands down.
Its the infant formula marketing one for me that still trumps them all. Knowingly allowing babies to die is pretty much a sure way to get to the top of my "that's a company I don't like" list.
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#129They were doing so well until the flash video at the end. :(
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think, if anyone was still labouring under the intention that Google was somehow morally 'above' other companies, this is pretty much the death-knell. If I'm being very optimistic / fair to Google, I'd hope that it was a Google US decision and they don't fully comprehend the feeling towards Nestle in the UK. Maybe this leaves a void for a 'good' technology company to spring up.
in the US, Hersheys controls the branding for KitKat, not Nestle
One would think that Google would be aware of the brand owner though, everyone else around the world seems to be.