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A nerd is still a nerd

More evidence that Motorola only expects to sell Droids to D&D playing nerd boys who never get laid. The latest ad, as described in this article on AppleInsider, mocks the iPhone as a feminine beauty pageant winner, a mirror for women to fix their lipstick, rather than a serious computing tool. Without going into the obvious ridiculousness of that statement, or the all-too-easy shortcomings of the Droid that make it far less serious than an iPhone at real-world hard-core computing tasks (Like, say, being able to load more…

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Droid has 256 MB of memory for apps? Are you kidding?

It’s no secret that Tech Crunch has been on a mission to promote the Droid at all costs, probably because Arrington needs daily affirmation that dropping the iPhone was a good move. But in the midst of all the puckering up was this little gem of an article this morning: http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/10/29/here-are-all-the-great-android-games-t…I had to do a double-take when I read the third paragraph. 512 MB of internal memory? Are you kidding me? In November of 2009, someone releases “the ultimate Android phone”…

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The Droid

So word on the street is that Motorola’s and Verizon’s team effort, titled Droid, is the new “iPhone killer.” Really? We haven’t stopped calling every new phone the iPhone killer yet? Here’s a hint: if reviewers and columnists are still describing your product as it compares to the competition, it’s not going to kill anything. Did everyone call the iPhone a Palm killer? Or a WinMo killer? No, because they were too busy drooling over the iPhone. Referring to a new phone as an iPhone…

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