Stephen Fry, as well as being a noted actor, writer and raconteur is a bona fide gadget freak (Seriously – he made a film celebrating 25 years of GNU Happy Birthday to GNU)
He has recently reviewed the Blackberry Bold and Storm, and the GI It’s a fantastic review describing the Storm’s keyboard thusly
Watching someone writing an email on a Storm is like watching an antelope trying to open a packet of cigarettes.a
and anyone who has every travelled with more than one electronic device with empathise with the photo of his hotel room desk.
Do yourself a favour – Read it
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Daniel // December 11, 2008 at 2:47 |
This bit was fantastic:
“hey are afraid to be good. They will blame stockholders, consumers, anyone but themselves.
Don’t you sometimes long to be CEO of a company like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia or Microsoft? So that you can say to your coders, your designers, your development teams and your software architects: “Not Fucking Good Enough. I haven’t said ‘Wow’ yet. I haven’t gasped with pleasure, amusement or admiration once. Start again. Not Fucking Good Enough.”
And (forgive this ranting sidebar) how one would lay into the packaging department! “Nowhere near Fucking Good Enough. I’m not enjoying opening this. It’s clumsy, dumb and contemptuous. I’m in product-opening hell. Not Fucking Good Enough.”
Oh, yes Stephen. That’s all very well, but you try being a CEO in the real world of share prices and financial officers. Bullshit.”