Corporate Battery Innovation

GOOGLE G BATTERY APPLE THE INCREDIBLE NEW iPOWER 5. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. OUR COMPATIBLE WITH MICROSOFT, THE NEW POWER. WANT. MICROSOFT WINDOWS LIVE™ PORTABLE ENERGY SOURCE Charging Recharge Replace ORACLE IBM HP NEW! TAKE YOUR AUDIO CASSETTE PLAYER ON THE GO! 3 TIMES MORE POWER FOR HALF THE PRICE. ORACLE HP POWERTOUCH AVAILABLE AGAIN IN 2015

A six-panel comic compares absurdly overcomplicated products from major technology companies to ordinary batteries. Google presents a colorful battery, Apple sells a lineup of oversized batteries as the “iPower 5,” Microsoft makes a branded portable power source, Oracle claims three times more power for half the price, IBM turns a battery into a cassette player, and HP offers a plain black battery with a ridiculous marketing slogan. The joke mocks corporate branding, inflated product claims, and companies reinventing simple everyday objects. EN: A six-panel comic compares absurdly overcomplicated products from major technology companies to ordinary batteries. Google presents a colorful battery, Apple sells a lineup of oversized batteries as the “iPower 5,” Microsoft makes a branded portable power source, Oracle claims three times more power for half the price, IBM turns a battery into a cassette player, and HP offers a plain black battery with a ridiculous marketing slogan. The joke mocks corporate branding, inflated product claims, and companies reinventing simple everyday objects.

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