Why I will never buy a HP product in my whole life !!!!

Kanak, come on… You are not left alone. I strongly join you for this reason. You can better start a Hate HP campaign and I’ll try to promote it. The real reason is, I believe in respect to Competitor’s product.

Kanak,
Being an apple fan you might be upset, but then its one guy who did something strange and company cannot be blamed for that. Further the t-shirt is not of HP one.

Even if the t-shirt is not HP, the guy is well known Hp guy. And I dont think doin such things is decent and he has explained it as “It was a combination of some fantastic wine, constant ribbing from my friends, and a hand rolled cigar that did this” which is not so decent.

Shankar,
I agree with you 100% that the Guy was wrong, whether he is wearing HP T-shirt or not. What I’m saying is that we cannot blame a company because of the act of one stupid guy.
If it was a Microsoft guy, would you stop using MS products?

@Nirmal
You are right… You asked me the right question… “If it was a Microsoft guy, would you stop using MS products?”. My answer is, I cannot. And ofcourse yes, we cannot blame HP on the whole. But my frustration was coz he was the CTO and not a stupid guy. Anyway. After Nirmals conversation I take back from Hate HP campaign as his questions were reasonable. But still I am angry with that guy or the team.

Well firstly the guy who is a CTO should not have done this as this is not expected from a person who sits in such a high position of a well known company, I feel HP should ask an apology from that guy, but not sure how effective that would be…

@nirmal @mobilejgames
oohh !! that was quite a good discussion going on. What i will say that .. we have control on certain things .. and not on some … like Microsoft … we cant deny them .. ( I remember a funny quote though……….
“….. Ya see, we at Microsoft believe in making computing easier! What could be easier for consumers than having only ONE choice of software?!?”
I feel individual responsibility is what we talking about, we talk about representation. Like,Mr. Sood is a representative of HP, and hence his acts can be directly linked with acts of HP, unless HP ask him to apologize publically. After all we are not talking about any mr. sood , we are talking about Mr. Sood who is the CTO of HP and his image does give an HP representation.

I will try to prevent HP to the extent possible, coz if a company cant respect other company’s product, I need not respect there’s.

however Nirmal, I remember you bought a HP notebook some time back

Thank God, I just sold out my HP Laptop few weeks back, otherwise Kanak would be kidding me as well. Anyway, lets wait for HP to react on this. Until then I am away from HP too. Just for the reason that Mr.Sood is working for HP, we cannot make fun of Apple’s product.

Note: As of now, I am not Apple’s fan or Hp’s or anyone else’s. I sold out my laptop and now own only an assembles PC both at home and work. So my comments are to be considered from a nuetral person. ;)

@Kanak,
Its not because I bought a HP laptop, I’m a fan of it. I’m a fan of all good looking laptops including Macbook Air. But I beg to disagree with you on the fact that Mr. Sood’s act is a representation of HP.

@Nirmal
Infact Mr.Sood is alway a representative of HP when he gives a public statement. But if you argue that this act may be a personal one, HP should react for it in some way. punishing him or should force him to appologize for this act. However, this might not happen as he has clearly stated the causes that made him to do the act.

I have nothing more to add, if Sood can cut his cake with Mac, Kanak has all rights not to buy HP anymore….

@Nirmal,
Nice conclusion. Lets leave it upto Kanak and HP to decide about this issue.

@nirmal
@shankar
lolzzzzz… I will remember this post for the comments … … Thank you guys for adding such comments and making things so interesting … However , when it used to nokia vs sony, I used to be alone … 2 vs 1 … now its like 1 to 1 and shankar can act as an unbiased referee (neutral ) ….

But whatever it is … I want an apology from HP

That cake looked so delicious though-but why did they use a laptop? Thats like hundreds of dollars wasted

@emmaS ,
Hey its not just a laptop … !!! its Macbook Air. The notebook cost nearly 2000$ and is a dream of many. When the people who are unable to afford Air, see such kind of act that too by a CTO of a highly reputed company, anger is highly likely.

The reason of this activity could be just to mock at apple’s product.

What a healthy discussion going on here. When I first read the post and then the comments, I was like “WOW”. Not because Sood used Macbook air for cutting his bday cake. Its his bday friends, he has rights to do anything within limits. But of course he should not have published those pics on internet. BAD!!!

I was amazed only after reading the comments. Great job Kanak for writing this post. You forced your readers to enter into discussion of that high standards.

Well, Shankar was playing safe (good tactics ) and Nirmal on the other hand has got points to think over (Excellent use of words to prove his points). Really I have never seen comments like that before on any other blog.

@Rakshit,
You have a point here, he should not have published the images especially when he is the CTO of a rival company. He has the right to do what ever he wants with his notebook or macbook, but then publishing them on Internet was the issue.

Seems this news has now shooted out on all popular news sites. And may be we can expect some response from HP or Apple on this. Stay tuned…

@rakshit
yeah you are right !! it was really a great fun reading these valuable comments .. …
@nirmal
yeah you are also right !!
@mobilejgames
Yeah the story is now very popular .. I was reading the comments on the Sood’s blog.. and if you see there are enormous amount of pingback to that posts…

Everyone needs to be careful while using Macbook for any other purpose. Mac fans are hurt a lot. If I were the one to cut the cake with Macbook, then the title from Kanak would be “Why I will never read Nirmal’s blog” :D

Nirmal, that is a good joke. You started pulling leg, huh? Kanak beware.

@nirmal
heheheh nirmal, that was really a good one …. lolzzzz … so be careful of doing against apple …
@raskshit
I Am getting extra careful now

I remember some time back Sony also had some gross pictures distributed to promote one of their games, the companies can go to any length to promote their products.

@keith
Yeah i remember tooo .. Am not sure .. I think it was related with some girl’s dress and mass cutting of animals …
I think companies are going beyond the healthy marketing by mocking other’s product ..

What was he thinking?…!!!

That’s really a bad attitude. I can’t believe a person who represents a big company such HP did it. I don’t think he considerate that it will affect his product reputation.