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  • Microsoft’s Oprah moment: You’re all getting Xboxes

    Microsoft’s Oprah moment: You’re all getting Xboxes

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Although there was plenty of news coming out of Microsoft today, the most interesting move is their decision to begin shipping the brand new XBox - it's basically the old XBox with 802.11n Wi-Fi, a 250GB hard drive, and Kinect support - the same week they announced it. It's not quite same day, but it's close. However, another treat came when they announced all the media at their press event will be getting XBox 360s immediately and that they would be showing up at their domiciles and places of business posthaste. These sort of giveaways are common at developer events (well, actually just Google IO) and I suspect they'll become more popular in the coming months. Gear is so cheap to build and ship that it almost makes sense to blanket the evangelists with it. Whereas the old model of "selective releases" works for some products - Apple, in particular excels at this - the XBox team is dealing with an entrenched base of hardware users who will be loathe to swap out their old XBox, provided they're not RRODed. Update: Now with video!

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  • Celebrity Nerds: Oprah has an EVO 4G and you don’t

    Celebrity Nerds: Oprah has an EVO 4G and you don’t

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Celebrity Nerds confirms what you always knew, deep in your heart of hearts: that stars are nerds like us. Send in your own confirmations of this fact right here.
    We wish we could tell you that Oprah caused a small riot in Chicago by handing out HTC EVO 4Gs to everyone in her audience but, alas, she seems to have just kept this one for herself. More specifically, she used the "fancy new" phone to show "those of you who actually know how to text" how easy it is to sign her "No Phone Zone" pledge. No discounts, no Bono, just a fleeting glimpse of one of the most anticipated phones of the year. Head on past the break for the video evidence of this momentous event.

    [Thanks, Luis]

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  • Steve Jobs is more popular than Oprah

    Steve Jobs is more popular than Oprah

    Posted on October 13, 2009 | No Comments
    According to a survey by Junior Achievement, 12-17 year olds thought Steve Jobs was more important than Oprah who, in turn, was just a bit cooler than Tony Hawk. What do kids know anyway?

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