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The Incentive

Office Ladies

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The Saber Pyramid

The fictional Dunder Mifflin team was forced to sell a triangle-shaped tablet dubbed the Pyramid. Its heavy has poor battery life and well, it's shaped like a triangle. There have been some pretty bad attempts to take on the iPad over the past year.

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Speaker 2
Well, I was really curious about the Saber Pyramid and what people thought of it out there in the tech world during this time. And it was actually pretty funny. I found an article by Todd Wasserman that said, Dunder Mifflin also releases a tablet and it's a triangle. Amazon shook up the tablet market this week with its Kindle Fire. But the big news and fictional tablet introductions occurred on the office Thursday night. In this episode, Dwight Schrute presents the triangle shaped tablet called the Pyramid to a room full of skeptical employees. What was funny to me about this is that Amazon had this big tablet announcement. But what everyone was writing about was the Saber Pyramid.
Speaker 1
I saw a bunch of articles about this as well. People thought this was like the greatest burn ever on the tech world was this parody of all the tablets that now all the different companies were starting to introduce.
Speaker 2
On a website called allthingsd.com, D stands for digital, Jenna.
Speaker 1
Good, because it could have stood for
Speaker 2
something else. I had a double check. Jenna Fried wrote this, finally the tablet to make HP and RIM feel better about themselves. There have been some pretty bad attempts to take on the iPad over the past year, but things reached a new low last night. On NBC's The Office, the fictional Dunder Mifflin team was forced to sell a triangle-shaped tablet dubbed the Pyramid. Its heavy has poor battery life and well, it's shaped like a triangle. It has enough flaws to make the touchpad and playbooks seem like home
Speaker 1
runs. Oh, my goodness.

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