has this got to the point where we can start using "crunchpad" to mean "a godawful mess" or similar?
as in "i wanted to grow organically; he wanted a big marketing push: it ended in a total crunchpad". or "someone didn't tighten the nuts; front driverside wheel came off on a mountain road: complete crunchpad". or "flock of birds triggered a false alarm; first strike; automated response: crunchpad".
it happened with cuil, i'm sensing the same promise here....
It will start out slow. As founders are making deals, they'll say to each other, "Document well, we don't want another CrunchPad here". Others will overhear and pick it up. "It was a total crunchpad." Then it will achieve meme status and people who have no idea where it came from will just post, CRUNCHPAD! in every thread detailing a startups failure. Divorced from the device, it evokes nice fail imagery. Launchpads -> Rockets ->failure ->crunch and dare I say it, Jar-Jar Binks.
as in "i wanted to grow organically; he wanted a big marketing push: it ended in a total crunchpad". or "someone didn't tighten the nuts; front driverside wheel came off on a mountain road: complete crunchpad". or "flock of birds triggered a false alarm; first strike; automated response: crunchpad".
it happened with cuil, i'm sensing the same promise here....