Last time I checked there's about as many people living in Europe as there are in the US, and LG phones have always been reasonably popular over here. In fact, I think I know more people with an LG phone than with an Android phone.
So maybe Engadget could tune down their wording on this a little bit, and give LG credit for at least trying to get some application-functionality into their customers hands, aight?
It is a fair comparison when we are being generalised by Engadget as a separate entity! We aren't playing a "who's got more people" game :p
I just don't think effectively telling an entire continent's readership that it is unimportant is a wise choice for a blog. How would you rationalise it?
@mattpez Why not, it's almost the 'United States of Europe' already anyway. If we just let our 'democratic' representatives have it their way for another 50 years we'll all be just 'Europeans' ;-)
@DefPoet Why not, it's almost the 'United States of Europe' already anyway. If we just let our 'democratic' representatives have it their way for another 50 years we'll all be just 'Europeans' ;-)
@drange You're right. I live in the U.K and my first 2 phones were both LG - LG Chocolate & LG Viewty. And the only people I know who don't have an LG phone, usually have a Sony Ericsson.
@drange Um, for those of you offended, you do realize that it's not launching in Europe today, right? It's only available in Asia Pac, CIS, and the Middle East and Africa, Mexico and Brazil.
@Thomas Ricker We should not be offended because the European launch is for the end of the year ? You're totally missing the point, I'm dumbfounded... I guess I'll just forget this post and move on then...
You're not funny and quite often your articles suck. It's just to US centric without a clear and honest comments and articles. Not to mention your freaking habit of bashing European brands that many times are way better than the US or even Asian brands. You should be fired.
As Thomas lives in Europe I can only assume that the title of the article is some kind of joke that has clearly failed. I have to say I have noticed increasingly cynicism in Thomas's articles of late, I imagine that being an Engadget editor can be quite stressful but has it really made you so jaded? If so maybe it's time for a career shift because posts such as this are not appreciated.
@Thomas Ricker "Um, for those of you offended, you do realize that it's not launching in Europe today, right? It's only available in Asia Pac, CIS, and the Middle East and Africa, Mexico and Brazil."
You have Brazilians readers too, you know? I am deeply offended (twice) for your arrogance. I guess my love story with engadget has ended here. I'll move on.
Last time I checked, Russia and the Ukraine were still part of Europe. It's launching there today. But that's beside the point. Engadget clearly has an international reader base, hell it's even got an international editor base. And yet you think nothing of offending those readers.
If you think LG and and 'the rest of the world' don't matter, why post this? If you think they do, give them some respect.
"Xenophobia and poor reading skills are an explosive mixture."
I am sure we are all Xenophobes and have poor reading skills. This is much more likely than the fact that you are a myopic douche that does not fail to exhibit your own narcissistic tendencies. So, because you exclude and dismiss large parts of the planet, we are Xenophobes? Other editors apparently do not suffer from this syndrome. Are you compensating because you live abroad? Its a good thing your articles are free to read, and we did not pay for this junk. You know what else is free btw? Syphilis.
Oh yeah, because the millions of people living in Asia Pacific (which includes Australia, and New Zealand). The Middle East (remember how rich people in Dubai are?), Africa, and Southern America aren't really good enough to count.
But you're right, I guess us crocodile hunters, suicide bombers, soccer players and lion hunters just don't know good technology when we stumble across the camps of the pure-hearted American missionaries.
True he dismisses technology news for a large part of the world as insignificant and then calls us xenophobic for calling him out? What's wrong with this man?
@drange No everyone lives in the USA and USA is not America. USA is a country not a continent and thousends of other people live in those countries located in other continents were LG sells more phones than in the USA.
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Last time I checked there's about as many people living in Europe as there are in the US, and LG phones have always been reasonably popular over here. In fact, I think I know more people with an LG phone than with an Android phone.
So maybe Engadget could tune down their wording on this a little bit, and give LG credit for at least trying to get some application-functionality into their customers hands, aight?
@drange
a country vs a continent
not a fair comparison
@DefPoet
It is a fair comparison when we are being generalised by Engadget as a separate entity! We aren't playing a "who's got more people" game :p
I just don't think effectively telling an entire continent's readership that it is unimportant is a wise choice for a blog. How would you rationalise it?
@mattpez
Why not, it's almost the 'United States of Europe' already anyway. If we just let our 'democratic' representatives have it their way for another 50 years we'll all be just 'Europeans' ;-)
@DefPoet
Why not, it's almost the 'United States of Europe' already anyway. If we just let our 'democratic' representatives have it their way for another 50 years we'll all be just 'Europeans' ;-)
@drange
Argh, not even the Engadged comment system shows some decency for us Europeans :-S
@drange You're right. I live in the U.K and my first 2 phones were both LG - LG Chocolate & LG Viewty. And the only people I know who don't have an LG phone, usually have a Sony Ericsson.
@drange Um, for those of you offended, you do realize that it's not launching in Europe today, right? It's only available in Asia Pac, CIS, and the Middle East and Africa, Mexico and Brazil.
Thomas Ricker
@drange
Engadget thinks nobody buys Nokia, why would they give LG a break when they are smaller fish again?
@Thomas Ricker
Our problem isn't with the app store. Your arrogant, smug and frankly tasteless title managed to alter the path of this article.
Apologise and change the title.
@Thomas Ricker
We should not be offended because the European launch is for the end of the year ?
You're totally missing the point, I'm dumbfounded... I guess I'll just forget this post and move on then...
@Thomas Ricker
You're not funny and quite often your articles suck. It's just to US centric without a clear and honest comments and articles.
Not to mention your freaking habit of bashing European brands that many times are way better than the US or even Asian brands.
You should be fired.
You may delete our comments, but you'll never delete our FREEDOM (of speech)!
@Thomas Ricker
As Thomas lives in Europe I can only assume that the title of the article is some kind of joke that has clearly failed. I have to say I have noticed increasingly cynicism in Thomas's articles of late, I imagine that being an Engadget editor can be quite stressful but has it really made you so jaded? If so maybe it's time for a career shift because posts such as this are not appreciated.
Oh well if it's only launching in Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East (which i know is part of Asia/Europe) then who cares?!
@mags1979
Why are you idiots reading Engadget then....no one cares about your opinion.
And a year from now he'll still be at Engadget.
@Thomas Ricker "Um, for those of you offended, you do realize that it's not launching in Europe today, right? It's only available in Asia Pac, CIS, and the Middle East and Africa, Mexico and Brazil."
You have Brazilians readers too, you know? I am deeply offended (twice) for your arrogance. I guess my love story with engadget has ended here. I'll move on.
@Thomas Ricker
Last time I checked, Russia and the Ukraine were still part of Europe. It's launching there today. But that's beside the point. Engadget clearly has an international reader base, hell it's even got an international editor base. And yet you think nothing of offending those readers.
If you think LG and and 'the rest of the world' don't matter, why post this? If you think they do, give them some respect.
@Thomas Ricker
I agree with this fellow's sentiments:
"Our problem isn't with the app store. Your arrogant, smug and frankly tasteless title managed to alter the path of this article.
Apologise and change the title."
Totally classless engadget, pathetic really...
@Thomas Ricker
Yes, brilliant rebuttal in twitter:
"Xenophobia and poor reading skills are an explosive mixture."
I am sure we are all Xenophobes and have poor reading skills. This is much more likely than the fact that you are a myopic douche that does not fail to exhibit your own narcissistic tendencies. So, because you exclude and dismiss large parts of the planet, we are Xenophobes? Other editors apparently do not suffer from this syndrome. Are you compensating because you live abroad? Its a good thing your articles are free to read, and we did not pay for this junk. You know what else is free btw? Syphilis.
@Thomas Ricker
Oh yeah, because the millions of people living in Asia Pacific (which includes Australia, and New Zealand). The Middle East (remember how rich people in Dubai are?), Africa, and Southern America aren't really good enough to count.
But you're right, I guess us crocodile hunters, suicide bombers, soccer players and lion hunters just don't know good technology when we stumble across the camps of the pure-hearted American missionaries.
@BrookLynnsFinest
Are you his bitch?
@mattpez Well put.
@JFH
True he dismisses technology news for a large part of the world as insignificant and then calls us xenophobic for calling him out? What's wrong with this man?
@DefPoet
Haha. This is hilarious. Engadget has sparked an international flame war!
USA! USA!
@IEngadget
No, just Ricker. Not all of Engadget.
@drange No everyone lives in the USA and USA is not America. USA is a country not a continent and thousends of other people live in those countries located in other continents were LG sells more phones than in the USA.