334: ‘High-Margin Candy Bar’, With Dieter Bohn
The Talk Show With John Gruber
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The Droyd Killed Palm
The droyd's product manager was rick ostrolo, who got his start making the m p three sounds good. He convinced motorola to make the droyd and now he runs the pixle team. And man, that campaign was also so cynical, the amount of money that pumped into it. The phone was very good. It had turn by turn directions, which was the first fur phones at the time. But in hindsight, here in 20 21, it the idea of a masculine brandi flagship on campaign feel if it feels like it might as well be as old as those advertisements where you should smoke camels cause they soothe your throat. That's what it feels
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