Comments on: Customers are not ‘brand accessories’ http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/customers-are-not-brand-accessories/ helping people break out of pigeonholes since 2003 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: alec muffett http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/customers-are-not-brand-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-824 alec muffett Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:11:55 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/customers-are-not-brand-accessories/#comment-824 @lemur: really, I see that differently; I should be allowed to use more than Chevron gas in my Ferrari. And I should be allowed to carry luggage as well as/instead of people, in the passenger seat. And I don't want to be tied to using only Best Western hotels when I am touring the country in my Ferrari, with a threat of having my car immobilised if I should check in to a Hilton instead. @lemur: really, I see that differently; I should be allowed to use more than Chevron gas in my Ferrari.

And I should be allowed to carry luggage as well as/instead of people, in the passenger seat.

And I don’t want to be tied to using only Best Western hotels when I am touring the country in my Ferrari, with a threat of having my car immobilised if I should check in to a Hilton instead.

]]> By: alan herrell - the head lemur http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/customers-are-not-brand-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-821 alan herrell - the head lemur Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:41:49 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/customers-are-not-brand-accessories/#comment-821 Really I didn't think that putting that chevy engine in my ferrari would void my warranty!!! The story is not the bricking of the phone,(that's just lame, anybody whose brains are larger than rodents, could see that coming, WTF no lawsuits and public statements?) but is the 200 page bills that demonstrate that the Phone Companies can meter your usage, and destinations, which will prove the case for tiered services. can anybody say minutes? Really
I didn’t think that putting that chevy engine in my ferrari would void my warranty!!!

The story is not the bricking of the phone,(that’s just lame, anybody whose brains are larger than rodents, could see that coming, WTF no lawsuits and public statements?) but is the 200 page bills that demonstrate that the Phone Companies can meter your usage, and destinations, which will prove the case for tiered services.
can anybody say minutes?

]]> By: Has Apple shot itself in the foot? What do you think? at The Social Programmer http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/customers-are-not-brand-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Has Apple shot itself in the foot? What do you think? at The Social Programmer Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:33:25 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/customers-are-not-brand-accessories/#comment-810 [...] Related Information BBC - Apple iPhone warning proves true Gizmodo’s recommendation Customers are not ‘brand accessories’ [...] [...] Related Information BBC – Apple iPhone warning proves true Gizmodo’s recommendation Customers are not ‘brand accessories’ [...]

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