Curse of the Google Software Distributors
First an exploding Dell laptop, then overheating Lexar flash drives. Are Google software distributors going up in flames? Dell, which distributes the Google Toolbar, made the news last month when a Dell laptop exploded at a conference in Japan, spewing flames and sparks and burning a tablecloth. Fast forward to this week, when the U.S. CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) said another Google software distributor, Lexar, is voluntarily recalling its JumpDrive Firefly and 1GB Secure II external flash drive devices due to overheating. Both of those flash drives include free Google Desktop, Google Toolbar and Picasa software. A Lexar representative said the company's had no complaints about Google's software, and that the problems with overheating flash drives were "a hardware thing." Google representatives did not immediately return requests for information. Dell announced its agreement in May to distribute the Google Toolbar on its computers. Lexar announced that it would distribute some of Google's desktop applications on Lexar's flash drives last December. Lexar buyers plugging their drives in for the first time are prompted with instructions to install several Google products, including Picasa, Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search. If a user accepts the prompt, the applications automatically download and are then deleted from the drive. |
Comments (27)
This article is idiotic.
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2006 1:59 PM
I second that..
Posted by Nathan Tran | July 7, 2006 2:07 PM
That is probably the most idiotic deduction I've ever seen
Posted by James | July 7, 2006 2:25 PM
Pretty abstract and non-informative. I saw a red car yesterday with a flat tire; therefore, red paint now causes flat tires?? Lame
Posted by Michael Dell | July 7, 2006 2:26 PM
One of the dumbest tech-related article I ever seen.
Posted by Anonymouz | July 7, 2006 2:27 PM
This article is idiotic. This is true.
Posted by I'm With Stupid | July 7, 2006 2:28 PM
I am ESL and I think I can write a better tech article than this guy.
Posted by mike | July 7, 2006 2:45 PM
Ummmm...could someone please explain the point of this article? Are they trying to say that Google's software caused these defects? Or is there just not much going on at Google HQ today so Mr. Bryant decided to fill some webspace with some utterly pointless diatribe? I installed a new processor in a computer with Google Earth installed, and the processor was defective....should I write an article about it as well???
Posted by Ryan | July 7, 2006 2:57 PM
It could kill your family and you may be serving it for dinner tonight...get the answers tonight on News6! That's what this article reminds me of. A hype title and description followed by narrowly related facts strewn together into a fantastic waste of my time. This guy should write for Fox News. The only thing this article is good for is CLICKS.
Posted by Wes Odom | July 7, 2006 3:14 PM
I don't know what is more stupid and annoying; this article or Steve Bryant's moronic smirk at the top of the page. Get a life dude.
Posted by Annoyed | July 7, 2006 3:15 PM
There is no Steve Bryant. No one is that smart AND that good looking.
Posted by Steve Bryant | July 7, 2006 3:36 PM
...and somebody pays you to make observations like that???? If I were them I'd ask for a refund.....write something at the very least interesting and informative....not just trash because you had to meet a deadline. LIFE...get one!
Posted by Never coming back to this site | July 7, 2006 3:41 PM
I think we don't understand this piece because it's _from the future_ (the post time is actually 1 hour and twenty minutes from now, as I type). It will all make sense during happy hour.
Posted by Walter | July 7, 2006 3:47 PM
I heard it was Microsoft's Vista that was causing the heat problem. Marcus told me.
Posted by Gren LEE | July 7, 2006 3:55 PM
I didn't think they let people this dumb have computers. I do blame Google for indexing this crap.
Posted by Jeez! | July 7, 2006 4:14 PM
There must be a Steve Bryant. He is definitely not that smart by the looks of this article AND he isn't that good looking. But then again who am I to talk? I'm not into guys and I just wasted 3 minutes reading his article and posting this reply.
Posted by Andrew H | July 7, 2006 4:14 PM
Wow, that article was such a waste of time it actually prompted me to waste more time complaining about it. Maybe the goal here is to captivate the audience through stupidity.
Posted by Looser | July 7, 2006 4:33 PM
I think its a joke more than anything people. Relax
Posted by Another user | July 7, 2006 4:34 PM
Just don't click on the ads. Looks like steve needed a new pair of shoes.
Posted by The Name is Dumass | July 7, 2006 5:29 PM
hey guys chill steve didnt make a statement that its because of google sw there is a hardware problem. he just reported that 2 of google sw distributors had all wrong stuff happening to their devices. now you guys co relate this as an article or actual facts that something like this can happen because steve said its all rubbish. I repeat ...steve didnt mention software caused the hardware to burn but just made a point that all these hardwares had google softwares. Steve i think ppl earn enough from adsense that they can't take any bad mouth for google anymore you really have to make up with your next article to make these guys happy. all the best and I know you can write better We give you another chance laterr
Posted by bpopark.com | July 7, 2006 6:08 PM
pretty boy blogger guy shows true blonde moment. go shave before you consider yourself mr web-2.0-fashion-no-shave-hairdo-man.
Posted by claudius | July 7, 2006 10:41 PM
amazing, you get paid to write an article such as this. Where did you go to school? I am certian that they are very proud of you to see that your education was utilized in a very productive manner which has enabled our society to better itself with such worthless verbage.
Posted by lucky | July 7, 2006 10:50 PM
The only thing interesting about this article is that Steve actually got a Lexar rep to take a dive...and give Google a plug at the same time.
Posted by Bobo | July 10, 2006 2:59 PM
I disagree. The only interesting thing about this article are the comments.
Posted by Steve Bryant | July 10, 2006 3:07 PM
Well, this is an obvious bug in Google's no_smoke.dll. I guess the kids from Berkley missed this one... ;-)
Posted by Informed User | July 11, 2006 3:01 PM
This article has dumbed all of us down. Can you feel it, I can. Its as if this article made me dumber after reading it. Maybe if I read the article backwards I can regain what I have lost - nop, thet jost mad me dumbber.
Posted by Kev | July 11, 2006 3:50 PM
Ha, writing for Fox News for Dummies! I'm wondering though when the gent who borrowed my name to demean both myself and Steve will ever move out of his mother's basement. Semper Fi, Steve, Semper Fi.
Posted by Ben Charny | July 11, 2006 6:18 PM