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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Child Asks BlackBerry Execs for Kid-Friendly Smartphone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</guid><description><![CDATA[Maybe a plant to ask a question to get people talking about an upcoming product?<br><br>Not sure...but that's the only reason I can think of for a kid to be in a shareholder's meeting.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gipionocheiyort]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 15th 2009 3:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Child Asks BlackBerry Execs for Kid-Friendly Smartphone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</guid><description><![CDATA[If I were this kid, I would be asking my work-a-holic parent(s) and dumb-ass Pop Culture for my childhood back.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Evil Genius]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 15th 2009 4:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Child Asks BlackBerry Execs for Kid-Friendly Smartphone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why do kids need a cell phone? Kids today are so pampered, they think they know life but they don't. When I was a kid I wasn't talking on a cellphone while riding my bike, or sitting inside playing multiplayer games with people across the world. I was outside playing in the dirt and mud, getting scraped up, fractured arms, eating junk food...all that good stuff.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mikemaj82]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 15th 2009 5:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Child Asks BlackBerry Execs for Kid-Friendly Smartphone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</guid><description><![CDATA[You then walked uphill both ways to school and McDonald's in the freezing snow barefoot, or on your fractured arms when those got too numb.  When you got to school, you were lucky to a book to even share with two other kids!<br><br>Shoes in children sizes was a ludicrous idea, as who would market shoes to such a niche market with no primary source of income?  And living in a cardboard box, like everyone else did at the time, just forced you to use your imagination to fool yourself it wasn't as damp and miserable as it seemed.<br><br>Also, whatever happened to good old fashioned, reliable tin cans and a string?  As long as the string was long enough, you could talk to anybody!  "Cell phones" is just another term for social sorcery, and texting is just a lamer way of writing a note on a piece of paper, folding it into an airplane, and throwing it towards its destination.<br><br>And who could forget how the closest thing you had to video games involved a rock, a stick, and more bleeding than any video game today has!<br><br>Oh, and you liked it that way just fine!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[J M Grey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 10:18AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Child Asks BlackBerry Execs for Kid-Friendly Smartphone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</guid><description><![CDATA[A kid having a cell phone is common now in days.Its not that you are pampering your kids.Now in days it is a safety thing.I love beening able to locate where my kid is and to be able to reach them when I want to]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[unityexxon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 15th 2009 9:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Child Asks BlackBerry Execs for Kid-Friendly Smartphone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</guid><description><![CDATA[@ J M Grey<br><br>(shakes angry fist at the younger crowd...)<br><br>Damn whipper-snappers!!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mhalp]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 11:27AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Child Asks BlackBerry Execs for Kid-Friendly Smartphone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/15/child-asks-blackberry-execs-for-kid-friendly-smartphone/</guid><description><![CDATA[Great article! but a blackberry for youths? what are they gonna call it? baby blackberry???<br><br>-Steve, berryfeed.com]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[griffithsbusiness]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 6:16PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
