“I’M A MAC!  I DON’T HAVE PROBLEMS, VIRUSES, OR HARDWARE CRASHES LIKE PC’S DO!!”  Would someone like to tell me who the hell made Justin Long the spokesperson for Mac?  It’s a rhetorical question and I didn’t expect you to say “Steve Jobs did!” I understand what Jobs is doing by putting a celebrity as the new face of Apple, he’s quite the businessman.  If he wasn’t, then I don’t think Apple would have asked him to come back and run the company after they fired him in the 80s. Back to Long, the concern I have is, why him? Why a comedian? Aside from some of his extremely funny movies, what else has the guy done?  Let me rephrase that.  What else has he done to prove that he is savvy enough to comment on whether or not a Mac is better than a PC besides read from a script? I understand what it means when Michael Jordan was promoting a new line of Air Jordans in his playing days.  That is a basketball player promoting a baskeball shoe.  That makes total sense to me, but a comedian qualified to endorse a computer?
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You may remember my previous post Part I – Apple’s iPhone 3G, which looked at the first side of the battle for superiority. This post will go over RIM’s answer to the iPhone. The BlackBerry Storm is the first ever touch screen BlackBerry device. The hype surrounding the Storm was incredible and Verizon spent a lot of time and money promoting the device in multiple ad campaigns. Would the Storm live up to all the hype?
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As an avid mobile device enthusiast, I am always looking for the newest and best technologies.  I have used phone from every manufacturer on every service provider.  I will switch providers if a company gets a phone that I want bad enough.  About a year ago I did just that and switched from Sprint to AT&T so that I could buy a 4GB iPhone (1st gen).  I really liked the device and shortly after the 3G came out I decided to upgrade to the 16GB and have been happy ever since.

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