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> but kind of gross the way Garmin slides in an ad for its products

Gross? So we have a company that is in business to make money and employs people and spends money at other companies (that employ and give people jobs). And they can't do obvious marketing. And take advantage of a good opportunity to plug their product? Everybody and every company just has to be for the common good? Be humble no bragging and the world will be a path to your door?

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They certainly can. And people are certainly able to comment on how hamfisted the marketing is. Freedom of speech and all that.

It’s a corporate blog. What do you expect them to write?

“The features of our GPS allowed a passerby to save an overboard boater. Really any generic GPS unit from Walmart would have done the same though.”

As I said, they're certainly free to say whatever they want to say. But people are free to criticize what they chose to write.

A less hamfisted approach would, for instance, remove the quotes from the guy which were clearly prompted by the PR folks at Garmin.

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