{"id":267795,"date":"2010-02-02T14:17:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=25610"},"modified":"2010-02-02T14:17:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:17:19","slug":"verizon-you-know-who-should-buy-a-pre-plus-your-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267795","title":{"rendered":"Verizon: You know who should buy a Pre Plus? Your mother."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two new TV spots for the Pre Plus have just made their way out, and it looks like Verizon has taken a decidedly.. different<\/em> approach to marketing Palm’s handset than they did with the Motorola Droid.<\/p>\n

Lets compare, shall we?<\/p>\n

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Exhibit A – Droid commercial:<\/strong><\/p>\n


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Stealth planes! Missiles! Dudes with beards, explosions, and guys on horses – oh my!<\/p>\n

Exhibit B – Palm Pre Plus commercial:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chocolate nougat, bad haircuts, and pictures of babies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We’re not saying that Verizon’s approach to selling the Pre Plus is wrong<\/em> – moms need cell phones too, and no one has ever really reached out to them to try and sell them a smartphone – but identifying webOS as a phone that moms would like seems like a risky move if VZW hopes to push any of these things to teens. Do you remember anything you wanted as a teen because your mom thought it was cool? Neither do we.<\/p>\n

There’s one more ooey-gooey lovey-dovey video over at PreCentral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Two new TV spots for the Pre Plus have just made their way out, and it looks like Verizon has taken a decidedly.. different approach to marketing Palm’s handset than they did with the Motorola Droid. Lets compare, shall we? Exhibit A – Droid commercial: Stealth planes! Missiles! Dudes with beards, explosions, and guys on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}