Granted, in this case the price was right
Reading colleague Jim Duffy’s story about Cisco’s Umi being deader than the Wicked Witch reminds me to mention a personal experience with another of Cisco’s toe-tagged products: the Flip.
Ask my children and I am fairly certain they would tell you that the Cisco Flip is the very best Thanksgiving present they have ever received.
Thanksgiving present?
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Yes, their Uncle Brian had brought one of Cisco’s dearly departed pocket video cameras to the McNamara family T-Day gathering … and my three 10-year-olds had so much fun using it that Brian, sensing an opportunity to claim Favorite Uncle status, flipped it to one of them as he and Aunt Sheila were heading for the door.
It has remained both a source of regular amusement and voracious battery consumption straight through the Christmas gift-a-thon.
You might think a company could make money selling such a popular gadget.
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