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Who'd have thought 'puppies' was a genre that would effectively carry a market launch of a handheld?

Not suprising when you look at the appeal of puppies. Go to any mall that has a pet store and note the demographic that pause to look at the puppies in the front display - the only people who don't stop are the ones that weren't going to notice the store anyway (mostly focused on getting to their destination). The puppies don't even have to do anything! Other stores can only hope for a small fraction of that type of attention.

Many people may hate dogs, but everyone loves puppies.

Never underestimate the power of cuteness.
(The most obvious commercial example.)

"In other news today, Microsoft executives report that dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of kittens may be hazardous to your health."
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Oh, Microsoft! You had me at hello!

Wait... Hello Kitty??

Japan has a niche with a certain segment (nerdy people) but their culture doesn't have broad appeal to the masses.

Two words: Hello Kitty sanrio.com

Well, there just so happens to be a penguin character amongst the Sanrio stable...

For those of you who have no idea of what 'Hello Kitty' is, you may want to check the web site.

What's the damn fascination with that damn cheesy picture of the elf queen?!! It' almost as bad as this stuff or this>! Do you have a rad picture of a unicorn by a waterfall on the side of your van?!

And you keep misrepresenting the link like it's some interestingly depraved pr0n or something! Damn you! Damn you straight to Hell!

If you really want to provide a service to the slashdot community, find us some goddamned transformers gay fanfic pr0n!

Stupid product and a computer with a stupid name.

You know, I just don't get it. Why would you want a synthetic dog?

There's something about the Japanese culture that I just don't get. Hello Kitty is a perfect example. Why do they like Hello Kitty?

How did they get the bow to stick to Hello Kitty's ear? I tried that on my own cat, but the taper of the ear as it reached the extremity wasn't conducive to holding a bow, much like pants will be self-adjusting on the rotund. Besides, she flicked away the bow then attempted to sever my femural artery. After I got back from the emergency room, I thought about using the staple gun, but Hello Kitty doesn't appear to have pierced ears. Unfortunately, I was out of hot-melt glue sticks, so I was unable to investigate that possibility.

Why do anime characters always have two teeth? (One on top going all the way around from molar to molar, and one on the bottom going all the way around from molar to molar.) Does Japanese toothpaste include spackle, or am I missing something? Why these one-piece monolithic teeth? The monolith is a fissure-free, gap-free symbol of strength. Which is ironic from a people who have been living in one of the world's most active seismic zone and yet persist in building paper houses with stone roofs.

[sigh] I long for the good old days, when the Japanese were quiet, reserved, and Sony built battle-wagon open-reel VTRs instead of CanCon pop music CDs.

Linux advocates love Tux, the penguin commonly used as a mascot for Linux. Why this is, few people with taste are able to figure out. However, considering what usually passes for taste in the "geek" cliques, this is not suprising. The original drawings of Tux look like they were crafted by a lowland gorilla with spasmatic gas pain. In future renditions, the lowland gorilla must have gained access to Lightwave. Apparently about two seconds of thought was put into the choice of this important marketing tool, because it couldnt sell food to a famine victim.

Even the very choice of a penguin was severely misguided. What in the world does a penguin have to do with a unix-like operating system? Obviously, nothing. Might as well of used a crude drawing of an impacted colon. What we have here is a serious branding problem. Solution? Sanrio.

Sanrio has the ability to sell anything to anyone by simply sticking a picture of a mouthless cat upon it. Waffle makers, plush animals, vibrators, you name it. This is the direction that we want to move in. Product is less important than image. If Microsoft wants to fight with marketing rather than quality product, we can take that battle to them. With characters like Nyago, Robowan, and Landry, Dominance over Microsoft products could be assured in a matter of months. No one could stop the juggernaut of Sanrio-branded Linux cuteness.

You know this to be true, and this is advice you ignore at your own peril.

Linux advocates love Tux, the penguin commonly used as a mascot for Linux. Why this is, few people with taste are able to figure out. However, considering what usually passes for taste in the "geek" cliques, this is not suprising. The original drawings of Tux look like they were crafted by a lowland gorilla with spasmatic gas pain. In future renditions, the lowland gorilla must have gained access to Lightwave. Apparently about two seconds of thought was put into the choice of this important marketing tool, because it couldnt sell food to a famine victim.

Even the very choice of a penguin was severely misguided. What in the world does a penguin have to do with a unix-like operating system? Obviously, nothing. Might as well of used a crude drawing of an impacted colon. What we have here is a serious branding problem. Solution? Sanrio.

Sanrio has the ability to sell anything to anyone by simply sticking a picture of a mouthless cat upon it. Waffle makers, plush animals, vibrators, you name it. This is the direction that we want to move in. Product is less important than image. If Microsoft wants to fight with marketing rather than quality product, we can take that battle to them. With characters like Nyago, Robowan, and Landry, Dominance over Microsoft products could be assured in a matter of months. No one could stop the juggernaut of Sanrio-branded Linux cuteness.

You know this to be true, and this is advice you ignore at your own peril.

Linux advocates love Tux, the penguin commonly used as a mascot for Linux. Why this is, few people with taste are able to figure out. However, considering what usually passes for taste in the "geek" cliques, this is not suprising. The original drawings of Tux look like they were crafted by a lowland gorilla with spasmatic gas pain. In future renditions, the lowland gorilla must have gained access to Lightwave. Apparently about two seconds of thought was put into the choice of this important marketing tool, because it couldnt sell food to a famine victim.

Even the very choice of a penguin was severely misguided. What in the world does a penguin have to do with a unix-like operating system? Obviously, nothing. Might as well of used a crude drawing of an impacted colon. What we have here is a serious branding problem. Solution? Sanrio.

Sanrio has the ability to sell anything to anyone by simply sticking a picture of a mouthless cat upon it. Waffle makers, plush animals, vibrators, you name it. This is the direction that we want to move in. Product is less important than image. If Microsoft wants to fight with marketing rather than quality product, we can take that battle to them. With characters like Nyago, Robowan, and Landry, Dominance over Microsoft products could be assured in a matter of months. No one could stop the juggernaut of Sanrio-branded Linux cuteness.

You know this to be true, and this is advice you ignore at your own peril.

Linux advocates love Tux, the penguin commonly used as a mascot for Linux. Why this is, few people with taste are able to figure out. However, considering what usually passes for taste in the "geek" cliques, this is not suprising. The original drawings of Tux look like they were crafted by a lowland gorilla with spasmatic gas pain. In future renditions, the lowland gorilla must have gained access to Lightwave. Apparently about two seconds of thought was put into the choice of this important marketing tool, because it couldnt sell food to a famine victim.

Even the very choice of a penguin was severely misguided. What in the world does a penguin have to do with a unix-like operating system? Obviously, nothing. Might as well of used a crude drawing of an impacted colon. What we have here is a serious branding problem. Solution? Sanrio.

Sanrio has the ability to sell anything to anyone by simply sticking a picture of a mouthless cat upon it. Waffle makers, plush animals, vibrators, you name it. This is the direction that we want to move in. Product is less important than image. If Microsoft wants to fight with marketing rather than quality product, we can take that battle to them. With characters like Nyago, Robowan, and Landry, Dominance over Microsoft products could be assured in a matter of months. No one could stop the juggernaut of Sanrio-branded Linux cuteness.

You know this to be true, and this is advice you ignore at your own peril.