I sometimes wonder at things in an odd floaty way... why are we here... is there life after death... oh and I also wonder about very good jugglers and Palm Pre cellphones...
In reality what I wonder is who thought that this was a good idea? That this advertising strategy would be conducive to selling a crap ton of phones? Sure it looks like the phone has promise as a great smart phone but as I watch this I find this increasingly creepy. This terrible line of commercials is, to me, similar to the five dollar foot-long jingles of Subway. You don't sell products by thinking me a simpleton who loves a good song, nor will you sell me an expensive product by scaring the crap out of me. And oh by the way... who's the carrier of this phone? I would watch it again but I'm afraid she'd assimilate me!
As if to make things much worse the Palm people have decided in their infinite wisdom to keep releasing new commercials they just feel the need not to say anything now. So at the creative meeting they said "Hey everyone loved the last 4 we made now lets just have the pale woman stand and stare at the camera! Then she holds up the phone and gives the camera the faintest of creepy smiles"! To which everyone in the room said "Fantastic". It's like the Snapple slogan room... no one had any good ideas so lets just take the one that is easiest to execute.
In summary you can't substitute a good product in with a terrible idea to sell it. Oh and screw you Palm Pre for giving me nightmares!
