Underwhelmed!

I remember this article by Jon Dick a year back whose theme is captured in these lines:

 “Imagine a person who’s underwhelmed by everything you tell him. You ran the mile in five minutes? Big deal. He doesn’t raise an eyebrow for anything over four. You scored a scholarship to Yale? Meh. Was Harvard full? You designed a new car that gets 100 miles to the gallon? Cool, but does it fly?

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That’s how Apple must feel when it takes the stage to show off a new product. If that gadget does anything less than carve out a new niche, or at least revolutionize an existing one, and simultaneously cure cancer, the company’s criticized by throngs of media and consumers who can’t believe they wasted their time on such uninspired crap.”

And now, a few days back, when Samsung launched its flagship smartphone, the S4, the response was pretty much the same: people were underwhelmed!

I guess that is yet another sign that Samsung has truly arrived. It’s now facing the same problem that Apple has faced: the expectations are simply too high.

To a much (much) lesser degree, almost all of us have faced the pressure of expectations. Maybe Calvin figured out the only way to deal with the problem!