Former Prime Ministers make great brand ambassadors. Just look at how much Tony Blair got for his speeches after he left office to make way for Cash Gordon. I wonder how much RIM, that's Research in Motion, the makers of BlackBerry, paid to have Thailand's self-proclaimed champion of Democracy, hero of the peasants and longest serving democratically elected Prime Minister tell his million-strong crowd (according to the organisers) and "hundreds of millions of red-shirted supporters" (according to the PTV anchor in front of the bloodbath at Government House) to use their BlackBerries to watch PTV.
"Press the globe icon, to to AIS and there you can watch PTV and get real information," he said. Obviously True Democracy does not work on Dtac or TrueMove.
It also makes one wonder how much of his ill-gotten billions he will need to pay his phone bill at the end of the month. Roaming data is not cheap and there have been instances of six-digit data roaming charges for someone downloading a TV episode.
If he has nothing to do and nowhere to go (literally on the latter part), our very own Takki could concievably spend most of his day watching his admiring horde on his AIS Blackberry. A million a day? Possible if you do the math. With customers like this, I am sure AIS' revenues will skyrocket soon enough and just think, if he can get every one of the million people at Rachadamnoen road to watch TV on a BlackBerry, AIS' data revenue will skyrocket. Oh, we would have the small detail of the network being overloaded and crumbling into oblivion but that's equality for you. Of course every peasant has a BlackBerry Bold to watch TV.
Last April, the Redshirts fired onto Dtac's offices a dozen times. They claimed that Dtac was harbouring violent Yellowshirt protesters and of course, someone who competes against Thaksin's company is obviously an enemy of democracy.
Takki's been at the BlackBerry theme for two days now. I wonder how much RIM are paying him to go on promoting the device every day. Or rather, I wonder, how much they would be willing to pay him to stop.
Just a random thought off the top of my head.
Listen for yourself. Time 16.00 (or so). Oh, and upon listening to it again, I just noticed he called it a "Back-berry". Someone at RIM should point that out to him. No use having a Brand Ambassador who cannot say the brand clearly. It's almost as if you have a BlackBerry Bold launch in which the emcee keeps pronouncing it as "BlackBerry Bolt". Wait. That did happen, or did it not?
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