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qirex: Feb 15, 2001

prefect posted:

it's not "the surface" or "a surface"?

I wonder if there's a bamboo steve jobs sculpture in the lobby of whatever building MS marketing is in

# ? Oct 14, 2014 18:09

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# ? May 9, 2024 08:55

G-III: Mar 4, 2001

Cardboard Box A posted:

It took them long enough

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/13/6968897/microsoft-teaching-nfl-sportscasters-that-a-surface-is-not-an-ipad

Microsoft's Surface is the "official tablet" of the NFL, and it's trying to make sure that sportscasters get the message. After it became clear that announcers may not know what the Surface was � with one announcer referring to it as an "iPad-like tool" � Microsoft has been working with broadcasters to make sure that mistake doesn't happen again. "It�s true, we have coached up a select few," Microsoft tells Business Insider. "That coaching will continue to ensure our partners are well equipped to discuss Surface when the camera pans to players using the device during games."

Also

http://liliputing.com/2014/10/acer-aspire-switch-12-2-1-tablet-intel-core-m-revealed.html

Jesus Christ, who the gently caress would even buy this?

# ? Oct 14, 2014 19:33

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

i;m the st'nd'rd keyboard

# ? Oct 14, 2014 19:38

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

the screen is facing the wrong loving way

# ? Oct 14, 2014 19:41

Dixie Cretin Seaman: Jan 22, 2008; all hat and one catte; Hot Rope Guy

PleasureKevin posted:

the screen is facing the wrong loving way

no, the keyboard is

there, much better.

# ? Oct 14, 2014 19:52

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

no, the keyboard is

there, much better.

it's like battleship except nothing you try will ever be a hit

# ? Oct 14, 2014 19:54

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

flakeloaf posted:

it's like battleship except nothing you try will ever be a hit

I actually watched part of the battleship movie on tv last week, it was really bad

# ? Oct 14, 2014 20:21

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

flakeloaf posted:

i;m the st'nd'rd keyboard

# ? Oct 14, 2014 20:32

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

flakeloaf posted:

it's like battleship except nothing you try will ever be a hit

# ? Oct 14, 2014 22:05

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

qirex posted:

I actually watched part of the battleship movie on tv last week, it was really bad

umm, according to ian "professor clumsy" maddison, you're wrong.

# ? Oct 14, 2014 22:07

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

Sham bam bamina! posted:

umm, according to ian "professor clumsy" maddison, you're wrong.

there's a montage scene with old vets de-mothballing the USS Missouri set to "rock you like a hurricane"

also a guy literally drifts a battleship

# ? Oct 14, 2014 22:09

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

qirex posted:

a guy literally drifts a battleship

in that case you're definitely wrong

# ? Oct 14, 2014 22:16

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

qirex posted:

there's a montage scene with old vets de-mothballing the USS Missouri set to "rock you like a hurricane"

also a guy literally drifts a battleship

I think I need to see this movie

# ? Oct 14, 2014 22:21

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

OK but all of this happens in a profoundly boring and stupid way if you want to get drunk and watch cheese then iron sky is on netflix

# ? Oct 14, 2014 23:04

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

did ms die yet as foretold in the op

# ? Oct 14, 2014 23:23

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

they are trying their best

# ? Oct 14, 2014 23:24

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

glad to hear it can we help

# ? Oct 14, 2014 23:29

pram: Jun 10, 2001

qirex posted:

there's a montage scene with old vets de-mothballing the USS Missouri set to "rock you like a hurricane"

also a guy literally drifts a battleship

lol

# ? Oct 15, 2014 01:17

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

battleships drift all the time if not tied down or anchored

# ? Oct 15, 2014 01:24

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.; Buglord

qirex posted:

I heard a guy say "Surface Pro" during an NFL game

he was pointing out that one of the coaches hated them and had a guy taking actual photos and printing them into a binder like they used to use instead

sweet

# ? Oct 15, 2014 01:45

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

# ? Oct 15, 2014 02:50

pram: Jun 10, 2001

lol

# ? Oct 15, 2014 02:51

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

# ? Oct 15, 2014 02:57

pram: Jun 10, 2001

not anymore u dont

# ? Oct 15, 2014 02:57

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

none of this would have happened if you just disabled comments on all your videos you gently caress

# ? Oct 15, 2014 03:01

Pinterest Mom: Jun 9, 2009

Phoenixan posted:

none of this would have happened if you just disabled comments on all your videos you gently caress

and give up on all the #engagement with the rich community of google plusers?

# ? Oct 15, 2014 03:03

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

Cold on a Cob posted:

# ? Oct 15, 2014 03:03

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

Phoenixan posted:

none of this would have happened if you just disabled comments on all your videos you gently caress

It is good to give the plebes something with which to distract from the atomiztion of their social order.

# ? Oct 15, 2014 03:04

cremnob: Jun 30, 2010

Microsoft's attempt to make its Surface Pro 3 tablets an integral part of the NFL suffered another hiccup this week when Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was asked about using the devices.

According to Jon Greenberg of ESPN.com, while discussing the Bears win over the Atlanta Falcons, Cutler referred to the Surface tablets as "knockoff iPads" despite the immense amount of Surface branding seen on NFL sidelines.

# ? Oct 15, 2014 03:55

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

cremnob posted:

Microsoft's attempt to make its Surface Pro 3 tablets an integral part of the NFL suffered another hiccup this week when Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was asked about using the devices.

According to Jon Greenberg of ESPN.com, while discussing the Bears win over the Atlanta Falcons, Cutler referred to the Surface tablets as "knockoff iPads" despite the immense amount of Surface branding seen on NFL sidelines.

santa is real!

# ? Oct 15, 2014 05:22

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

cremnob posted:

Microsoft's attempt to make its Surface Pro 3 tablets an integral part of the NFL suffered another hiccup this week when Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was asked about using the devices.

According to Jon Greenberg of ESPN.com, while discussing the Bears win over the Atlanta Falcons, Cutler referred to the Surface tablets as "knockoff iPads" despite the immense amount of Surface branding seen on NFL sidelines.

# ? Oct 15, 2014 10:17

Scott Forstall: Aug 16, 2003; MMM THAT FAUX LEATHER

cremnob posted:

Microsoft's attempt to make its Surface Pro 3 tablets an integral part of the NFL suffered another hiccup this week when Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was asked about using the devices.

According to Jon Greenberg of ESPN.com, while discussing the Bears win over the Atlanta Falcons, Cutler referred to the Surface tablets as "knockoff iPads" despite the immense amount of Surface branding seen on NFL sidelines.

owns

# ? Oct 15, 2014 11:18

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

everything about this is fukken beautiful

microsoft decides that it would be a good idea to get product placement in the nfl's actual games and commentary as if people don't feel insulted enough when it happens in fictional shows and movies, nfl fans will just love them for this

microsoft actually gets the product placement somehow

everyone that they depend on to carry it out resents it and just shits all over it with impunity because microsoft already forked over the money and in the worst-case scenario some other sponsor will step up to replace them after this because it's the goddamn nfl

microsoft has no recourse :saddowns:

Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Oct 15, 2014

# ? Oct 15, 2014 11:53

qntm: Jun 17, 2009

that's actually really sad

# ? Oct 15, 2014 12:51

Main Paineframe: Oct 27, 2010

less sad when you realize how obviously futile it is. the ipad brand dominates the tablet market so thoroughly that "ipad" is already a synonym for "good tablet", and had been out for over two years by the time win8 came out. microsoft's big tablet push was waaaaay too late. they might be able to get a few people to buy their tablets since win8 can fill some stupid weird edge cases, but you can't overturn that kind of branding dominance just by shoveling giant piles of marketing money at it. they ought to have learned that lesson from the zune

# ? Oct 15, 2014 14:39

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

cremnob posted:

Microsoft's attempt to make its Surface Pro 3 tablets an integral part of the NFL suffered another hiccup this week when Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was asked about using the devices.

According to Jon Greenberg of ESPN.com, while discussing the Bears win over the Atlanta Falcons, Cutler referred to the Surface tablets as "knockoff iPads" despite the immense amount of Surface branding seen on NFL sidelines.

lmao, dear lord

# ? Oct 15, 2014 14:44

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

cremnob posted:

Microsoft's attempt to make its Surface Pro 3 tablets an integral part of the NFL suffered another hiccup this week when Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was asked about using the devices.

According to Jon Greenberg of ESPN.com, while discussing the Bears win over the Atlanta Falcons, Cutler referred to the Surface tablets as "knockoff iPads" despite the immense amount of Surface branding seen on NFL sidelines.

Jay Cutler owns

# ? Oct 15, 2014 14:45

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Main Paineframe posted:

microsoft's big tablet push was waaaaay too late

msft has been producing and promoting tablets since 1991. here is billy gates with a message for you from 2002:

# ? Oct 15, 2014 14:45

Blackula69: Apr 1, 2007; ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ＆ＦＡＣＥＴＯＢＬＡＣＵＬＡ

here's jay cutler with a message for bill

# ? Oct 15, 2014 14:52

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# ? May 9, 2024 08:55

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

FMguru posted:

msft has been producing and promoting tablets since 1991. here is billy gates with a message for you from 2002:

yeah remember that time BillG personally deep-sixed the MS Courier because it didn't run Windows?

good times :xd:

when i grow up i want to be a captain of industry like billiam ~*~brand synergy~*~ gates

# ? Oct 15, 2014 15:03

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