on 1 July 2009Ricoh, best known for the kind of office machines bought by people who still call things ‘office machines’, has launched a cloud archive service called quanp. It’s not clear what’s good about the product except that it can show you your files in a sort of 3D landscape reminiscent of ‘virtual reality’ database visualisations in crappy films. Oh, wait, that’s not good. Although if you like wet floor effects you’ll like it a lot.
What’s bad about it is ‘quanp’. What the hell? I almost feel bad for satirising Pantone’s Goe. At least you could attempt to pronounce that. Apparently quanp is
No it isn’t. It’s pronounced ‘kwonp’. Any fool can see that. Or maybe ‘kwaaahhnp’ if you’re Snake from The Simpsons. Not ‘kwan-puh’. Definitely not going to happen.
And what’s with the website? Having decided to rip off www.apple.com, could they have got it any wronger? The best bit is where they’ve rendered the main copy as a jpeg because live text wasn’t going to be beautiful enough… and then typeset it so horribly that Verdana would have looked better. Ick.
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