In 2013, wireless network manufacturer Ubiquiti announced its 1 millionth UniAP would be 24k gold plated:
Well, it took a while, but more than 10 months later a dealer in Brazil found the unit in his inventory:
Ubiquiti posted this congratulations on their blog:
For finding the gold wireless radio, this dealer wins: a gold wireless radio. No discounts, no prize money, no swag, no lifetime supply of chocolate.
Furthermore, can he even install and use a gold AP? Talk about a knick-knack.
I just feel sorry for all the other Ubiquiti dealers who died horrible deaths while little orange people in silly costumes sang songs mocking their moral failings.
Ooompa loompa doopity doo,
you say you want a Unifi too
Oompa loompa dee dee dee
A gold plated Unifi is all you'll ever see
Computer Operator: Gentlemen, I know how anxious you've all been during these last few days. But now I think I can safely say that your time and money have been well-spent. We're about to witness the greatest miracle of the machine age. Based on the revolutionary Computonian Law of Probability, this machine will tell us the precise location of the golden tickets Ubiquiti UniFi.
[he pushes buttons on the machine; the machine prints out a response]
Computer Operator: It says: "I won't tell. That would be cheating."
[he pushes the buttons on the machine again]
Computer Operator: I am now telling the computer that if it will tell me the correct answer, I will gladly share with it the grand prize.
[the machine prints out another response]
Computer Operator: He says: "What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate golden Ubiquiti UniFi?"
[he sighs, then pushes the buttons once again]
Computer Operator: I am now telling the computer exactly what he can do with the lifetime supply of chocolate golden Ubiquiti UniFi.
Marketing trumps Manufacturing, can anyone say Faraday Cage?
And to top it off it's prolly one of them counterfeit suckers painted gold.
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