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

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

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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…

Towards the end of the page, it looks like they are doing this promo because you can win an Android device by buying kitkat, so this is hardly a joke, but a well thought through ad campaign.

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

#86
post #3

Looks like Android has done it too: http://www.android.com/kitkat/

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.

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

#87
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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That's not how marketing works. Has anyone ever seen a TV commercial and said "meh, I can guess how this episode ends -- I'm going out to get a Pepsi!"?

My wife will do that. Advertising works extremely well on her.

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

#88
I like the fine print

The small print Wow this really is small print isn't it? Look how tiny it is. How are you even reading this? Come to think of it, why are you even reading this?? This is no way to spend your break! You've just read all of that stuff about how awesome the KITKAT 4.4 is and you still haven't run out and got one? Wow, tough crowd.

As soon as I finish writing this I'm gonna get one from my secret stash and go drink milk through it like a straw. I have to keep my stash secret because my grandmother looks at me all puppy eyed if I don't share it with her. Is it still puppy eyed if it's your gran? I suppose it would be gran eyed? Or granny eyed? Let's go with granny eyed. I feel like we've just coined a new phrase. Where's the 'trademark' symbol on this keyboard? Ah here it is ™. GrannyEyed™. I wonder if that's legally binding? Hey, let's see if we can get it trending! #GrannyEyed. Tweeted. The Internet has it now. It's out of our hands. I feel like we've just started something epic. Ok, well this was a lovely chat. I'm gonna go and grab that KITKAT now. Fancy a break?

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

#90
post #15

The video is clearly a sendup of an Apple product announcement.

It reminded me of the Mac Pro product page http://www.apple.com/ca/mac-pro

Right! Especially the animated dissection of the KitKat bar and copy like “Thanks to its world-renowned, tri-core, wafer thin CPU with full chocolate coverage.”.
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