Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

What a frustrating read from someone who believes there is more to a Company and its Products than just its brand. First off... Ignore the entire last half of the book on anything web based (what they call "the Net"). To be fair..the book was written in 2002, a stone-age ago in terms of the Internet, but the narcissistic assumptions made are so far off.... Such as... -Yahoo is the global leader in search and always will be (Google yet?) -Amazon is the leader in online book sales, but will fail if they expand outside of books... -eTrade will fail because of its name alone -AOL/CompuServe will continue to dominate -......and the list goes on. Even for the first half of the book (and a part at the very end), read the suggestions/lessons, but not the examples that say such things as... -GM/Chev have lost market share, because of their confusing product naming (Ever heard of quality coming into a customer's decision to purchase?!) -Levi's failed because of branding (not because every other company made their jeans overseas at 10% the cost) -Apple needs to stick to computers. No one wants to surf the web from their phone, or listen to music from their phone. -Product always diverge, no one wants convergence (opposite of what a smart phone, table, PC, TV, Xbox is today?)... In business schools we used to call books like this "airport business books" that sell to people rushing through airports with their flashy covers and catchy titles. Again, read the first 22 laws, but ignore the examples. The authors wrote their law and then looked to the market to prove their point. Not research based where you have controls, variables and prove results based on research evidence. Ignore the 11 laws of Internet Branding. Go in knowing that everything to the authors is black-and-white and only their opinion matters. I could go on ... but it would violate my law of moving onto better things.