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1970s-style PR. This mirrors the oil company messaging: "pay no attention to the oil spills and CIA-sponsored coups de etat, we're the swell people that make t
by alrs 13y ago
1970s-style PR. This mirrors the oil company messaging: "pay no attention to the oil spills and CIA-sponsored coups de etat, we're the swell people that make the petrochemicals in that ziploc baggie in your little girl's lunchbox." "We power the trucks that bring organic vegetables to your dinner table."
Microsoft: For the Children.
- ronilan 13y agoMore like a 90s BASF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NQuMr45xd4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NQuMr45xd4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJHPpsb3FzM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJHPpsb3FzM We don't make the MBA/OSX/Chrome you use to write this comment - we make the chair you sit on possible.
- alrs 13y agoRemember what it was like back in the 80s before there were chairs?
- mieses 13y agoThose DEC VT100's were awfully hard to sit on.
- mattwallaert 13y agoThere is a difference between saying "chairs wouldn't exist without Microsoft" and "Microsoft had a hand in making possible the chair you currently sit in". To be clear, I'm making the second argument - that there is a disproportionate amount of vitriol directed at Microsoft (and even in this thread) given the role that it has played in enabling human advancement. Microsoft: making chairs cheaper for 30 years. =]
- jborica 13y agoWere chair prices spiraling out of control before DOS was released? Something like 40% of office furniture is made by american prisoners, and I have a feeling they're not using Windows while making it. Paying workers <$0.15 an hour is what is making chairs cheaper.
- jlgreco 13y agoZiploc baggies? That is PR amatuer hour. You've got to talk about making the plastic that premature baby incubators are made out of. Remember, it can't just be for kids, it has to be saving kids.
- sliverstorm 13y agoHow about the plastics used in pacemakers (cue story about four-year-old Jimmy and his pacemaker)
- sneak 13y agoWanna see that done masterfully? http://www.apple.com/ios/videos/#developers http://www.apple.com/ios/videos/#developers Think for a minute what these helicopter shots cost in these places, and getting the crews and 4k cameras and such out there....
- sliverstorm 13y agoOooo, that almost makes me angry. For the prosthesis, it's not like the "app" couldn't be replaced by a single switch on the foot. From what I can tell the "app" is literally the most superficial, least important part of the whole system. Good example.
- EdiX 13y agoYour mock argument for oil companies is actually better than the one in the article for microsoft.