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The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: On the 20th of October Pepsi will launch its own smartphone in China. The P1 is not just a cowling brand, but a custom-made device running Android 5.1 and costing approximately $205. At that price it's almost a burner, but even so it represents new possibilities for a brand to truly control the digital space for its eager consumers in a period where mobile content-blocking is becoming a marketing obstruction, and where there is increasing resistance on Google's part to allow publishers to push web-users from the internet to 'the app'.
You either have no children, or are in the 1% (or, naturally, both).
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I don't talk through my Royal Crown cola cans -- why would I drink a telephone?
They seemed not to have learned from Amazon's failure. The only buyers of this device are probably those who will replace the adware with a custom rom.
I saw this over the weekend and simply shook my head thinking "what is the goal here Pepsi?"
And looking at the specs, it isn't anything that hasn't already been done before (and better) for less. Unless they are going to be giving these away as some weird promotion I don't get it (right now).
Here is the one real question I have, how is a Pepsi phone going to make people drink more Pepsi?
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A playboy or hustler phone would be cool for guys. Playboy would do well for women as well, since they like the bunny icon.
I'm going to wait for the BRAWNDO phone.
BRAWNDO! The thirst mutilator!
If you can think of a $200 phone as a "burner", then you are the 1%. Congratulations! But can you try not to be such a dick about it?
Agree with you AC 100%.
it's got Electrolytes!
Coca Cola has trounced them in advertising for decades--I easily see Coke ads 10:1 over Pepsi logos anywhere I go...
And I see Coke-product-fountains in about the same ratio in restaurants to Pespi-product-fountains--about 10:1.
Too much syrup.
They'll be competing with the successor to the Xiaomi mi 4i at that price, somehow I'm thinking they'll lose.
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The translated page for the first link is awesome:
Pepsi also do phone 5.5 inch screen priced at 1299
At 09:33 on October 11, 2015 Lei Feng network
Since soy sauce king also do hand ring, do any cross-border trade products have become rare. Recently, news that a beverage company to do a mobile phone. Recently, certification account named Pepsi phones coming microblogging Authentication information is "Science and Technology Co., Ltd. Shenzhen play crazy." Yesterday, the official micro news release said:. "Recently, a lot of information about PepsiCo phones on the network, thank you for your attention, through communication and cooperation within the company, next Tuesday we will bring more surprises for everyone."
"I light my cigars with $100 bills, so a $200 phone is almost a burner! BULLY!"
People dumb enough to eat and drink junk food probably aren't going to use the phone the way you would like them. Using an app to find your products is way too much executive function and effort.
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Submitter must be a privileged Silly Valley cocksucker who has never experienced a minute of hardship in his life.
I'm going to wait for the BRAWNDO phone.
BRAWNDO! The thirst mutilator!
its what plants crave
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A very solid phone, will run android 5, and no Pepsi tie-ins.
And XiaoMi will eat them for lunch everywhere but the US. Well, until XiaoMi sells here.
How decadent is this society becoming if throwing away $200 is nothing? Or perhaps the AC is just another shill PR tool?
As you said, Coca-Cola has doubled down on advertising full-sugar soda, as soda consumption has been falling. Pepsi instead followed demand, marketing bottled water, tea, Gatorade, nutrition bars, etc.
Coke sells more soda, but that's a declining market. Pepsi is ahead in the healthier options which have seen increasing sales.
Do we have to reach the smart phone event horizon before the singularity?
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and browsing experience. Its all catering to the inept generation which only wants quick media fix and nothing more.
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On the 20th of October Pepsi
How much did that pay to rename that?
That reminds me, though, not long until Thanksgiving in November-Facebook. Then I'll have to start thinking about buying Christmas gifts before the 25th of December-Coca-Cola...
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Although I think the Pepsi thing is dumb you could see a market for something like [your favorite football] team pre-configured with apps that aggregates tweets, stats and news about the team. Logo on case, background etc....
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> What healthier options do they market?
I> t's all high fructose-corn/sugar-laced products and/or grain-based/soy-infused poison.
Coke has 150 calories in a 12-ounce serving.
Gatorade's current product, G2, has 30 calories.
So 80% less than Coke. If you think sugar is bad, Gatorade is 80% healthier than Coke. (Water is probably better - and Pepsi sells water under it's Aquafina brand).
Regarding "grain based", look in your mouth to see what kind of food your body was designed for. You have 8 incisors for slicing (fruit, fleshy vegetables, meat), 4 canines for tearing and puncturing (meat), and 20 flat molars and premolars for grinding (grain, starchy vegetables). So of your 32 teeth, 20 are made for grains and starchy vegetables, 4 are made for meat.
It means that the submitter is trying to stealthily advertise the phone.
Pardon me, but did we have a hyperinflation over the weekend? In what world is $205 an amount that you would spend on a throwaway product?
really! saw it on The Onion! it has issues, though... only thing its music app will play is "rice, rice baby."
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I think it's a mark you apply to baby cattle so you know who owns them.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
By your metric, the average homeless person in the US will be in the top 15 - 20%.
Ask me how I can tell you've never travelled outside the U.S. to any even moderately poor country.
The homeless in the U.S. are in FACT better off than many people in Africa or South America or heck, even rural China (all of which I have seen in person). They absolutely have better access to food and healthcare. They have access to libraries during the day to study anything they like, or simply to read if they wish...
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Notice, no battery specs! Why? Because it runs on Pepsi! Requires 10oz for a recharge that lasts about 4 hours.
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I guess a $200 Android phone really is amazing to someone who has never seen a Windows phone for +/- $100. Like $49 for a 530 on T-Mobile or $129 for an unlocked 635. No contract on either.
MS or Pepsi: tough choice.
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So I pointed out that Coke has 150 calories of sugar, while Gatorade has 30.
You argued that I'm wrong because "A calorie is not a calorie". So you think Coca-Cola calories (high fructose corn syrup) are healthy calories. Uhm, okay.
You then say butter and lard are healthier than vegetables.
And you think grains are bad.
Fyi, you just provided evidence that grains are good. See if you can figure out why.
If you want to get a general idea of what prehistoric human ancestors may have eaten prior to agriculture, you can easily look at the other great apes - who have human-like teeth and don't have agriculture .
You'll see they spend their time eating plants, and if a lizard or other morsel of meat happens by, they'll eat it. They. Don't hunt like lions (or have teeth like lions). Meat is a very small portion of their diet.
Take 30 seconds sometime to look at pictures of teeth from a carnivore such as a dog or cat, an herbivore such as a horse, and a human. You'll see for yourself which is more similar.
I think you'll see that our teeth are much more like horse teeth than lion or wolf teeth (or house cat). Unlike horses, we DO have a pair of canines. 85% of our teeth are the same types that horses have, not the types that carnivores have. Look and see.
$200 phones get given away when you sign up for service, no one actually pays for a $200 phone, they get them for free.
You pay $200 for an $800 iPhone. You don't pay shit for a $200 POS that no one wants.
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More disturbing is that people are going to pay to be subjected to ads. That's why I don't have a television! Why the hell would I want a phone that's going to try to make me do things I wouldn't normally do? That makes no sense to me.
On the other hand... If the stats are right and the device is rootable...
WTF? I've enough of the damned things already and don't use them. I've bought a half dozen tablets and hate every one of them. I've probably bought more. I don't even like my phone and the feeling is mutual.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
As you said, Coca-Cola has doubled down on advertising full-sugar soda, as soda consumption has been falling. Pepsi instead followed demand, marketing bottled water, tea, Gatorade, nutrition bars, etc.
Coke sells more soda, but that's a declining market. Pepsi is ahead in the healthier options which have seen increasing sales.
Hate to be the one to break this to you but bottled tea, Gatorade, so-called nutrition bars often have as much sugar in them as soda. Bottled tea is particularly bad (and tastes terrible to a decent pot of tea).
These drinks are advertised as "healthy" because there's no laws against deceptive advertising in the US.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
> Gatorade, so-called nutrition bars often have as much sugar in them as soda.
12 ounces of Coke has 150 calories, all sugar
12 ounces of Gatorade G2 has 30 calories, mostly sugar
So Coke has more than FIVE TIMES as much sugar.
I have a Hulu subscription and a Netflix subscription. I have like 2500 videos in queue at YouTube. I should cancel both of them but I never do. I might watch one or the other for one viewing session every few weeks. Each viewing session is maybe a few hours long and while I'm occupied with something else.
I've never once denied that I'm an idiot. I did get sick of cable and satellite a long time ago, so there's that.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
"Since soy sauce king also do hand ring"
I didn't know Pepsi made soy sauce.
- Dan
They are what plants crave obviously.
More disturbing is that people are going to pay to be subjected to ads.
Even worse than paying to see ads, is paying to BE an ad. I'm talking about all those millions of people who buy and wear clothing that is prominently branded with the manufacturer's name and logo. If clothing makers want me to be a walking advert for them, they can bloody well pay me for the privilege, just as they pay the owners of billboards.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
I've never really understood how they managed to make that fashionable. I've pondered this and discussed it with smart people even. It has to have been some sort of legitimate attempt and we concluded that it likely started with brand name clothing with them being pricey and people wanting to display the logos and it expanding from there. But, still, I don't know WHY people would have wanted to show that off - not know. I do suspect it's because of ego. At least that's where it probably started.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."