Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
There is a great article up on Businessweek that gives some great tips on how to presents sales/pitch slides, outlining how Steve Jobs goes about presenting. If you have to present often, especially sales presentations, then I highly recommend reading the article and getting the accompanying book (from Amazon, no less).
Whilst suffering from a bad case of Man Flu, I chanced upon a BGR poll asking users which mobile device they're most looking for. The devices in the poll are:
So, naturally I submitted the SE X3 device, which just keeps on looking better and better, especially with a new UI video being leaked. I expected that perhaps the 9700 would be tops of the polls list, considering most of the users are Americans who prefer QWERTY devices and that BGR favours RIM devices, but I was shocked with the Motorola Droid device coming in first with a whopping 47%.
Motorola seem to be coming back with an exclusive device available on the Verizon network that is Android 2.0 and will be able to have the Google Navigation app on it. Coupled with the MotoBlur service available on the device, it does look like the device will be appealing in the States.
There has been alot of Droid advertising in the States and when on holiday last week I saw alot of the Droid ad's on telly, creating a feeding the frenzy without being specific at all in the adverts.
Motorola new set of devices seem to be receiving some very positive press, with T3 magazine stating that the device has great software, but clunky design. This seems to be the case across European journo's, with the American press being more forgiving. It seems that Moto's marketing across Europe is alot more sedate in comparison to what our Yank friends are being subjected to, and perhaps this is the problem. Moto need to create the same buzz across the pond, and they're not
So, will Motorola be back to their fullest - let's hope so: we need more competition out there, and Moto could be the team to bring it back. It seems a shame that Europe won't be as forgiving as the Americans.
