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The only time the audience actually laughs: http://www.qualcomm.com/ces at 75:44 “yes, that will actually be fun”…Alice Eve…so funny, so awkward, the horror the horror! Thank you Q/C and CES.
To end the keynote, Maroon 5 came on stage to do an acoustic set. While it was a nice show for the people in attendance, livestream viewers had a different experience. Presumably because it didn’t have the rights to broadcast Maroon 5’s music, CES instead played silence, and then Dido over the audio track.
it’s like when they were planning this, they had a brainstorming session, and the guy running it just said “yes” to everything.
THE IDIOT’S (AND MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION’S) GUIDE TO VIRAL MARKETING
Its one page consists of the following steps:
1) Brainstorm as many ideas as possible 2) Just say YES to all ideas 3) ?????? (with many three-letter initialisms including OMG LOL and WTF) 4) Profit (because we just can’t not not look away from catastrophe)
We’re all talking about Qualcomm though, so in the school of thought that says there’s no such thing as bad publicity, perhaps this was a winner after all…
Comments
This is the best story I have EVER read on The Verge. So happy right now.
By NathanIngraham on 01.08.13 11:55am
this happy?
By t.houston on 01.08.13 11:57am
Almost.
By NathanIngraham on 01.08.13 11:58am
She must be out of Qualcomm’s league…
By delta14 on 01.08.13 1:29pm
She must have learned her non-smile from the face of Windows Phone 8: Jessica Alba.
By JimboLodisC on 01.08.13 3:42pm
She is insanely awesome!
By Mo.hit on 01.09.13 3:36am
Except Alba was joyous the whole time..so.
By Adriel Mingo on 01.14.13 1:55pm
Alice is the only person on stage who seems to realize how shitty the script is.
By papernick on 01.08.13 2:57pm
Shitty script but good twitter heckling by the verge staff. This is like the new age of Statler and Waldorf. I approve and hope to see more of.
By enlight10ment on 01.09.13 12:12pm
The only time the audience actually laughs: http://www.qualcomm.com/ces at 75:44 “yes, that will actually be fun”…Alice Eve…so funny, so awkward, the horror the horror! Thank you Q/C and CES.
By rbow on 01.09.13 5:41pm
Alice Eve is not amused :-)
By Mark C. Smith on 01.08.13 12:08pm
Well her boyfriend is was the guy who said “and by hot, I mean FUEGO!”
By SF_Dinsy on 01.09.13 11:54am
I’m geting a Lichtenstein’s tormented blonde wife vibe from Alice Eve. I feel the inklings of the birth of a meme.
By Andrew Rockefeller on 01.08.13 12:15pm
This post is amazing. Im in tears here.
By whiteboard on 01.08.13 12:17pm
Someone is firing their agent today.
By CPD_1 on 01.08.13 12:17pm
i’m totally amazed.
it’s like when they were planning this, they had a brainstorming session, and the guy running it just said “yes” to everything.
By JesseDegenerate on 01.08.13 12:33pm
I’m writing a book:
THE IDIOT’S (AND MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION’S) GUIDE TO VIRAL MARKETING
Its one page consists of the following steps:
1) Brainstorm as many ideas as possible
2) Just say YES to all ideas
3) ?????? (with many three-letter initialisms including OMG LOL and WTF)
4) Profit (because we just can’t not not look away from catastrophe)
By azulum on 01.08.13 12:49pm
You forgot “use the word AWESOME”
By theineffablebob on 01.08.13 1:08pm
BORN MOBILE
By ppratik96 on 01.08.13 2:43pm
Hurry, to the Bornmobile!
Nananananananana Bornman!
By epynephrin on 01.08.13 4:19pm
I’m Jason Bourne, and this is my Windows Phone.
By JimboLodisC on 01.09.13 12:29pm
What’s your problem with Windows Phone bro?
By Adriel Mingo on 01.14.13 1:56pm
Bornman it is!
By Netkudasai on 01.11.13 9:35am
Boooorrrrn mobile
As mobile as the wind blooows
As mobile as the grass grooows
Born mobile to follow your heaaarrrt
By tesseractive on 01.08.13 7:33pm
We’re all talking about Qualcomm though, so in the school of thought that says there’s no such thing as bad publicity, perhaps this was a winner after all…
But..Desmond Tutu….what!?
By VoxMediaUser859221 on 01.08.13 10:09pm