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no dedicated GPS, BluRay player, etc for me.]]>Apr 14th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/I've done navigation with my phone. You can keep it. The screen is way too small and inconvenient.
It's the same reason big screen TVs are still selling. Many people don't want to watch movies on their iPods.]]>Apr 14th 2009 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/Apr 14th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/Apr 14th 2009 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/Apr 14th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/
Where does this bizarre close-cousin to the English language that marketing people are so fond of come from? I'll bet Blake didn't "state" or "mention" any of these things. Rather, somebody in Marketing Communications carefully crafted a finely tuned quote over a period of several days and numerous managerial reviews before attributing it to the poor guy in a press release filled with equally tortured near-English constructs.

I'm not ragging on him personally or even Moto in particular -- this kind of stuff is everywhere. Optimized; experience; environment; social networking; do you ever use these words, or those sentence constructions, in your real life? It's been, I think, a decade since The Cluetrain Manifesto tried to tell us all: if you want to sound authentic, start by speaking in a natural voice, not something that sounds as remote as 19th century political speech.

Rant over. If you'll excuse me, I need to go and consume an optimized alcoholic beverage experience in a media-provisioned social networking environment. Or in other words: if anybody needs me, I'll be in the bar.]]>Apr 14th 2009 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/Apr 14th 2009 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/
http://www.garminasus.com/garminasus/cms/site/home/lang/en/phones]]>Apr 14th 2009 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/Apr 15th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/motorola-looking-to-produce-a-connected-gps-unit/]]>Apr 15th 2009 7:11PM