Every time Dauber's World drives an American car Dauber's World is mystified by how unbelievably poorly it compares to cars made elsewhere. Current car rental (complete with EZ Pass) is a Pontiac G6. Egads! The interior is cheap and the design is awful. For the money there are plenty of Toyotas and Hondas that are significantly better. Dauber's World knows this is an often-repeated point but will belabor it one more time: what the hell is Detroit doing? Maybe engineers from GM should be forced to drive OTHER cars so they realize how much theirs suck.
On the topic of rental cars: why do they force you to have both keys in the key chain when you rent a car? Presumably they don't want to lose the other key, but it's really annoying as the car renter to have a giant key chain with TWO huge keys. Dauber's World is all about pocket optimization. Only critical components can be carried in a pocket. A single car key is needed, but not two.
In other news yesterday BlackBerry released their much-anticipated BlackBerry 9000 (also know as the "Bold"). Dauber's World's official response: "oooooh, it's pretty." Dauber's World just bought a phone in late February. Nuts! BlackBerry is betting that Dauber's World won't want to wait two full years to get an HSDPA-enabled BlackBerry -- and they're probably right. The move by RIM to announce the phone in advance of it's release this summer is clearly a move to try to make sure that someone notices. In a month Apple will announce their much-anticipated (though not by Dauber's World) 3G phone and RIM wanted to make sure someone was paying attention.
More interesting than the BlackBerry Bold release yesterday was the news that RIM is also creating a $150M venture fund for BlackBerry Apps. This sounds familiar. Almost like the $100M fund that Kleiner Perkins made for iPhone apps. Dauber's World doesn't really understand these funds. As corporate development projects they make sense, but why would such a narrow fund make sense to KPCB investors? What RIM should do is give $400 to Dauber's World to buy a new phone. Dauber's World would then take it upon himself to make sure all friends, family and co-workers new all the super-cool features of the new phone. That would be money well spent.
