All Posts Tagged With: "Wi-Fi"

Got you eye on that latest piece of technology?

Well, you better take it off right now, because it almost never pays to be the first one on the block to be suckered into the marketer’s bulls@#t, and that goes with any new technology (these greedy bastards have to regurgitate the same old crap because it’s their jobs … but it’s not yours to be ripped off by them). Whether it be the latest computer (I think desktop P.C.s are going to be a dead technology pretty soon … I give them a year or two until that fateful death cry) or a new kind of cell phone (“Oh, this one plays …” I often hear. Who gives a s@#t, why do you need that stupid feature anyways?) a fancy new car or anything else that has the prefix “latest” to it — if you buy it too soon, you will be paying way too much for it, because at the time it will be untested and probably an unreliable product, which hasn’t had all of its bugs worked out yet! Continued

So long Starbucks, and good riddance!

Who would have thought you could have made so much money selling coffee? Well, the overpriced coffee fad had to die down eventually (just like everything else in this world) and your contingency plans were horrible (you can thank your upper management for that). I mean, did you think that you were going to keep this “nutty” thing going on until the end of times?

Seriously? You had a good (no, great) run, you saturated the market for the longest time and now your customers are answering the questions that you should have brought up in your board room meeting — “Why am I paying $4 for coffee that I can make at home?” or “What’s wrong with McDonald’s coffee? It’s cheaper and taste better!” Sound familiar? Yea, probably not! Continued