Motorola CEO Ed “Screw the Nano” Zander has admitted that the Moto ROKR sucks a little, with six times the return rate of a normal handset:
“We got off to a little bit of a rough start,” Zander said in an interview after Motorola reported on Oct. 18 that third- quarter profit tripled, driven by more-popular phones such as the Razr. “People were looking for an iPod and that’s not what it is. We may have missed the marketing message there.” [...] Apple, on its Web site, advertises that the firm’s iTunes software can link to the phone. The program has “compatibility bugs,” [analyst Albert] Lin said.
Also, using a dead man in the commercial for a cheap fat joke might have hurt, too. Or I hope it did. (via PaidContent)
Also in today’s apology roundup, the Onion parodies NME with an article entitled “Chris Martin says Coldplay’s lyrics will get better“. [checks URL] Oh, huh. I guess that Chris Martin really did admit that putting out three albums was only practice for writing something good.
Speaking yesterday (October 24) to Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2, Martin claimed: “One thing we’re working on is our lyrics. They’re about to get brilliant.“I don’t want to go on about what we’re about to do but we’re about to get a lot better and part of that is lyrically.”
Related: Gwyn’s preggers again. Congratulations!
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If they stopped making music… that would be a huge improvement
When you try your best but you don’t succeeeeeeeed
When you get what you want but not what you neeeeeeeed
That’s gold baby! Don’t mess with perfection!
This is a hilarious interview with Chris Martin:
http://www.rickygervais.com/video10.php
that commerical with biggie being resurected is made 10 times worse by having the overdub of him talking. why would his mom sign off on that commercial. also, how did iggy pop get so much face time in the commerical. as if any of the teenyboppers watching know who he is…
it’s probably because Iggy’s the only one who looks better pressed up against glass.
I’m enjoying my ROKR actually. It is perfect for short trips. What I enjoy most is that the phone has really nice speakers. So you can listen to music wherever you are without headphones. Sorry for the pitch, but I think the phone has been misunderstood and poorly marketed while it is in fact a good phone. It is just iTunes on a phone, not an iPod phone.
Agree with the comment about Fat Joe. That was tasteless.
Fat Joe?
Oh, the kids today…
haha that ricky gervais interview was funny. thanks for posting it vagina.
Hahahaha Fat Joe!
I’m a 40 year old hipster dufus, and even I know the difference between Fat Joe and Biggie Smalls.
Gwyneth’s next baby will be named Lyric.
Or Nano.
Expect Chris Martin to promise a really brilliant fourth child.
now we’re gonna have to hear more mediocre dribble about his kids on the next coldplay album. maybe if paltrow leaves him or something, he’ll actually start making better music again.
Coldplay’s another band that brings out the worst in pretentious listeners.
I understand if you think they’re whiny, or if you dislike them completely, or if they don’t rock enough guitar-wise, but they write some damn good tunes.
For the record:
Parachutes: great
A Rush of Blood to the Head: good, but not as great as Parachutes
X+Y: great, and Coldplay’s best album
It’s just my honest opinion, but I don’t really think it’s that difficult to figure out.
i thought the ‘bad fat joke’ was kind of funny… disrespectful yes, but it got a laugh out of me.
You forgot that Coldplay also can be boring as fuck.
Correction: parachutes does not = great.
Sufjan was played on nip tuck tonight… read it at my blog: http://digitalbusker.blogspot.com/
fj, I think when the singer/songwriter says, “we’ll write better songs next time” it’s not worth arguing with him.
I think when a singer/songwiter says, “well write better songs next time”, he should reconsider being a singer/songwriter….
OH MY GOD ShUT TEH FU CKUP YOU FATTIES…OH MY GOD ShUT TEH FU CKUP YOU FATTIES…OH MY GOD ShUT TEH FU CKUP YOU FATTIES…OH MY GOD ShUT TEH FU CKUP
wow, this website really sucks without scott.
Jim, you’re probably right.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/phone_pr.html explains why the ROKR sucked so much ass — all the corporate vested interests (including Apple) turned a nice concept for a new, music-playing mobile phone, into a useless, DRM-hogtied, designed-by-committee turd.
Martins self deprecation is getting old
Scott, please save us