Engadget is off the list after watching Alec Saunders Interview
- The girl asked appropriate questions, the bearded guy is a douch. His questions were quite trollish, you could tell he was pandering to the masses who have written RIM off. He didn't even try to appear unbiased.01-12-12 07:06 PMLike 0
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However, like you said Tim (the bearded guy) does look like a douch and didn't look very comfortable doing an interview imho.
What impressed me the most was Alec. He handled the questions much better than some other clowns would have in the same situation.Last edited by dynot; 01-12-12 at 09:21 PM.
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With the media acting like the one stop shop for anything apple and slaming RIM at the same time for probucts they released 3 years ago. It is the easy thing to do.
Thanks to the CBers that see through the media bile and all the other s@$?.Last edited by Dapper37; 01-12-12 at 09:55 PM.
01-12-12 09:49 PMLike 0 - I thought it was kind of funny how he was saying " no plans for a bigger device"
and he was answered with, i like the size of this, we think it works.
and he was hit with .. what so you think you got it right in the first shot?
I would definitely agree that they did get it right, i actually don't really see the point of them coming out with a "10 inch" food tray to be honest.
Alec did a really good job, and the girl was actually pretty funny and i found her questions were quite good.
The only thing i will give engadget credit for is breaking the news on the playbook sale that made me purchase one01-12-12 10:28 PMLike 0 -
- Personally I think it's pretty appalling that someone would refer to another human being as thing and take potshots at them based on appearance and what it means about their gender identity. This is 2012. Grow up and realise that man, woman, gay, straight, transgendered, whatever... we are all humans who deserve respect.
What's worse is some of you went off on her because people perceived she insulted your cellphone.
It's pretty appalling.
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pantlesspenguin and janos2808 like this.01-13-12 12:43 AMLike 2 - The interview wasn't as bad as it's been made out to see (that doesn't mean it was good though). Some hard hitting and well deserved questions were asked (just not in a professional manner). Honestly, I think Engadget did a good job with their coverage on Blackberry. Compare their review of OS 2.0 (BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 hands-on (video) -- Engadget) against Gizmodo (BlackBerry Playbook OS 2 Finally Turns the Playbook Into a Real Tablet) and you will see that they are far from the worst when it comes to Blackberry.01-13-12 12:49 AMLike 0
- The interview wasn't as bad as it's been made out to see (that doesn't mean it was good though). Some hard hitting and well deserved questions were asked (just not in a professional manner). Honestly, I think Engadget did a good job with their coverage on Blackberry. Compare their review of OS 2.0 (BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 hands-on (video) -- Engadget) against Gizmodo (BlackBerry Playbook OS 2 Finally Turns the Playbook Into a Real Tablet) and you will see that they are far from the worst when it comes to Blackberry.
All i wilkl say on engadget and tim stevens (dude on the right in the interview) they lost any kudos i may have for them when they did the PB review, if ya watch the original review, the vid goes a lil summat like tim saying `heres xxx (dude that did the QNX car vid for the verge, dont remember his name) and he`s out BB expert, now im going to review this device not him` i mean thats like giving steve ballmer a iOS device to review lol.
As for techcrunch, iv never vistied their site (or if i did it wasnt a memorable experience) but i did see the video, now the dude in there said their viewers were down, its not hard to see why. drunk, arrogant, abnoxious and just plain unprofessional would be how id describe it
the sites i generally visit are CB (duhh lol) N4bb, tracyandmatt.co.uk and the verge. i find them to be the most genuine and impartial01-14-12 09:37 AMLike 0 - Superfly_FRRetired ModeratorWell, I got quite angry @ the begining, but resisted quitting just for a maybe bad style/orientation/hair cut/orwhatever. The end of the interview is quite ok, mostly with Alec Sanders being very open minded and pedagogic.
Since this is not what I call a "Tech" anything, let's not make a big deal with it.01-14-12 11:05 AMLike 0 - I too would reccomend The Verge. I enjoy their mobile Podcast as they cover a bunch of topics. The website is a bit hard to read. I assume the most popular stories bubble up to the top. That's why I prefer the mobile site as the stories appear in chronological order.01-14-12 12:52 PMLike 0
- Who cares about that interview. I just left verizon. I asked to see the torch specifically. He said its a bad value for how much I'd pay and he couldn't recommend it. somehow I ended up looking at the HTC Rezound a couple minutes later. told me if I'm tired of Android I'm better off just getting an iPhone.
I think that stuff matters more than some non factor interview only technology heads care about.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk01-14-12 01:07 PMLike 0 - Personally I think it's pretty appalling that someone would refer to another human being as thing and take potshots at them based on appearance and what it means about their gender identity. This is 2012. Grow up and realise that man, woman, gay, straight, transgendered, whatever... we are all humans who deserve respect.
What's worse is some of you went off on her because people perceived she insulted your cellphone.
It's pretty appalling.
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I hate when people say "why can't we all just get along" and "everyone deserves respect". Respect is showing up dressed business like for an interview in some peoples' view.01-15-12 09:37 AMLike 0 - Last I checked referring to someone as thing is an attack on their orientation when it was used in the way it was earlier in this thread There were several
posts in that vein and that's what I was referring to. They have since been scrubbed and hopefully the posters got a handslap. I doubt they are self aware enough to realise they are wrong.
And I dont agree that anyone should have to dress to societal norms to conduct an interview at a tech convention. So do men married to men (or women to women) have to hide that too if they are at work because it's 'business'? Can't have a picture on their desk?
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Same with Job interviews, when I was involved in the hiring process, be it office admin, or fork lift driver, if you showed up in Jeans, your interview lasted less than 5 minutes, and your resume went in the trash. Social norms need to be respected when interacting in the public for a business, unless your business IS to shock and awe, which as far as I know Engadget isn't in that business.Jake2826 likes this.01-15-12 11:39 AMLike 1 - If I was in a position to being interviewed and the interviewers came out looking rediculous, my responses would be drastically different, the indepth interview they may have hoped for would be gone, as they didn't respect me to look the part, I wouldn't respect them to go the extra mile in the interview.
Same with Job interviews, when I was involved in the hiring process, be it office admin, or fork lift driver, if you showed up in Jeans, your interview lasted less than 5 minutes, and your resume went in the trash. Social norms need to be respected when interacting in the public for a business, unless your business IS to shock and awe, which as far as I know Engadget isn't in that business.
Maybe he can't afford. Anything else. He is trying to get a job, is he not. Sorry. That comment of yours comes across as snobbery to me.
Looks like empathy is almost extinction these days.
Fortunately, I didn't serve in the CN military, or ideas be wishing. For. The years of my life back after reading that. That's really offensive to me, sorry.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk01-15-12 01:20 PMLike 0 - Fork lift driver shows up in a suite for an interview. Sounds pretty stupid. Maybe the Muslim woman shouldn't cover if she wants. To work for me... That's not "normal" round these parts, you know.
Maybe he can't afford. Anything else. He is trying to get a job, is he not. Sorry. That comment of yours comes across as snobbery to me.
Looks like empathy is almost extinction these days.
Fortunately, I didn't serve in the CN military, or ideas be wishing. For. The years of my life back after reading that. That's really offensive to me, sorry.
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As far as the Engadget interview, I thought some great questions were asked but I hated how both interviewers butted into Alec's answer before he had a chance to fully answer the question! And the woman's attire was a bit distracting. I've been to plenty of professional and nonprofessional conventions and members of the press and those giving the demonstrations always were dressed in AT LEAST business casual attire. If I had been there and seen her walking around I would've assumed she was just a techie just to see the sights and not a member of the press.01-15-12 02:58 PMLike 0 - Fork lift driver shows up in a suite for an interview. Sounds pretty stupid. Maybe the Muslim woman shouldn't cover if she wants. To work for me... That's not "normal" round these parts, you know.
Maybe he can't afford. Anything else. He is trying to get a job, is he not. Sorry. That comment of yours comes across as snobbery to me.
Looks like empathy is almost extinction these days.
Fortunately, I didn't serve in the CN military, or ideas be wishing. For. The years of my life back after reading that. That's really offensive to me, sorry.
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Oh wow, I don't know how you put up with that. Not good. I had to read it 3 times to make sense of it. You should try a 9900 keyboard. Personally I couldn't let a message go out like that.01-16-12 12:12 PMLike 0
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