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If Other Companies Made Toasters   
Date: Sent Thursday, January 18, 2007
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If Other Companies Made Toasters
If IBM made toasters...
They would want one big toaster where people bring bread to be submitted for overnight toasting. IBM would claim a worldwide market for five, maybe
six toasters.
If Microsoft made toasters...
Every time you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buy a toaster. You wouldn't have to take the toaster, but you'd still have to pay for it
anyway. Toaster '2000 would weigh 15000 pounds (hence requiring a reinforced steel countertop), draw enough electricity to power a small city, take up
95% of the space in your kitchen, would claim to be the first toaster that lets you control how light or dark you want your toast to be, and would
secretly interrogate your other appliances to find out who made them. Everyone would hate Microsoft toasters, but nonetheless would buy them since
most of the good bread only works with their toasters.
If Apple made toasters...
It would do everything the Microsoft toaster does, but five years earlier. The toast would make a little smiley face at you when it popped up, or else
it would get stuck and there would be a little picture of a bomb burned onto it. If they break, these toasters would require a special set of
MacToaster Tools to even open up. Worldwide market share would only be 5%, but all the bread in school lunches would be exclusively toasted on the
MacToaster.
If The NeXT Corporation made toasters...
It would be a large, perfectly smooth and seamless black cube. Every morning there would be a piece of toast on top of it. Their service department
would have an unlisted phone number, and the blueprints for the box would be highly classified government documents. The X-Files would have an episode
about it.
If the NSA made toasters...
Your toaster would have a secret trap door that only the NSA could access in case they needed to get at your toast for reasons of national
security.
Does DEC still make toasters?...
They made good toasters in the '70s, didn't they?
If Hewlett-Packard made toasters...
They would market the Reverse Polish Toaster, which takes in toast and gives you regular bread.
If Sony made toasters...
Their Sony Toastman, which would be barely larger than the single piece of bread it is meant to toast, can be conveniently attached to your belt.
If the Franklin Mint made toasters...
Every month, you would receive another lovely hand-crafted piece of your authentic Civil War pewter toaster.
If Xerox made toasters...
You could toast one-sided or two-sided. Successive slices would get lighter and lighter. The toaster would jam your bread for you.
If Radio Shack made toasters...
The staff would sell you a toaster, but not know anything about it, and you'd have to buy 4 or 5 before finding one that works right out of the box.
Or you could buy all the parts to build your own toaster.
If Oracle made toasters...
They would claim their toaster was compatible with all brands and styles of bread, but when you got it home you'd discover the Bagel Engine was still
in development, the Croissant extension was three years away, and that indeed the whole appliance was good at blowing smoke.
If Timex made toasters...
They would be cheap and small quartz-crystal wrist toasters that take a licking and keep on toasting.
If K-Tel sold toasters...
They would not be available in stores, and you would get a free set of Ginsu knives.
If Fisher-Price made toasters...
"Baby's First Toaster" would have a hand-crank that you turn to toast the bread that pops up like a Jack-in-the-box.
If Unix made toasters...
Very few people would under would understand how to make toast. There would be toaster geeks, in pony tails, jeans and tee-shirts who would spend
sixteen hours a day in front of the toaster making toast.
Received from Linda A Russell.
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