The 5 Worst Marketing Ideas Ever Put into Action. Marketing isn't complicated: Use a lot of bright colors, commission a catchy jingle, slap some breasts up there right next to the blandly inoffensive product name and then collect your paycheck and go home to cry in the dark about the ultimate meaninglessness of your career and life in general.
It's not rocket science. In fact, as long as your product doesn't share a name with a horrible disease and you don't hand over complete creative control to people who actively hate your company, you should be all set. Unfortunately, sometimes the marketing people just show up to work drunk and do exactly that. #5. Ayds During the 1970s and '80s, Ayds diet candy was riding high: The butterscotch, chocolate and various other flavored diet candies somehow fooled the public into thinking they actually worked, and the owners had enough of that sweet sugar money rolling in to choke a whole squadron of Oompa Loompas.
Then, 30 years later, it got kind of funny again: #4. Photos.com Jesus. . #3. Getty. What iOS 6 Says About Mobile Fragmentation - Personal-tech - Mobile. Some of the best features of iOS 6 won't work on older iOS hardware. The same issue is true for other mobile platforms and new software. Is fragmentation inevitable? The latest version of Apple's mobile platform offers some great new features--but not to everyone. Owners of older Apple hardware will not be able to enjoy all the new powers included in iOS 6. Many are crying foul, accusing Apple of fragmenting its platform. The core new features of iOS 6 are FaceTime over cellular networks, 3-D map fly-overs, and expanded Siri capabilities. Things get messy when you look at older iOS devices. Part of the reasoning for this breakdown, says Apple, is that the A5 processor chip in the iPhone 4S and iPad with Retina Display are required for some of the features, such as the 3-D fly-overs.
The original iPad, which is just over two years old, doesn't get iOS 6 at all. Presumably the iPhone 5, which is expected to arrive later this year, will have access to all the new features in iOS 6. To this day, Coca-Cola still imports coca leaves which are used to manufacture cocaine in the United States. (NaturalNews) Coca leaves have been chewed and consumed as tea for thousands of years in the high Andes.
They are rich in many essential nutrients; they ease respiratory and digestive distress and are a natural stimulant and painkiller. Indigenous tradition and scientific studies have both confirmed that in their natural form, the leaves are completely safe and non-addictive -- it takes intensive processing and toxic chemical ingredients to produce cocaine. That's why more and more coca-containing products have started to hit the market in Andean countries in the past few years. Yet the United States still aggressively pursues an eradication policy that encourages Andean governments to spray their forests with toxic chemicals to eliminate this medicinal crop. It is illegal to import or possess the leaves under U.S. law -- unless you're the Coca-Cola company. (Coca-Cola, by the way, used to literally contain cocaine in its original formula. As the New York Times published in 1988 ( P.S.
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