In a month of major product unveilings, the Grouse unveils his picks for the pits
Posted 01.16.2009 at 12:36 pm
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And the Flunky Goes to . . . Two of the less-than-stellar new products unveiled this month.
SanDisc, Sony Insider
With tech companies firing, Steve Jobs ailing (get well, Steve!) and the auto industry in a downward spiral, it’s no wonder that the first of 2009’s big shows were a bit ho-hum. Sure, there were a few high points (Apple’s matte screen on the 17-inch Macbook Pro, Palm’s WebOS and Fisker’s luxury sport hybrid, Karma), but all in all I was just plain bored by what was announced and exhibited at this year’s CES, MacWorld and Detroit Auto Show.
We’ve already covered the biggest letdowns of CES in a previous article, so I’m sharing a different kind of naughty list: the lamest, most questionable, counterintuitive, what-were-they-thinking announcements of this past convention season—the stuff that just rubbed me the wrong way.
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I think the new Sansa is a waste of money for the price they are selling the item for you can by an 8gb mp3 player. The first Sansa MP3 player is ok but if it is any thing like the first model where as when you cut the unit on the volume is already set an
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