The clarification is that, despite how ludicrous it is to imagine texting someone via Excel spreadsheet, the video producers wanted to feature the phone's ability to work with Excel (which was the new technology at the time), and used these "texts" to feature that technology, despite the fact that no one can send and receive texts via Excel.
The clarification is that, despite how ludicrous it is to imagine texting someone via Excel spreadsheet, the video producers wanted to feature the phone's ability to work with Excel (which was the new technology at the time), and used these "texts" to feature that technology, despite the fact that no one can send and receive texts via Excel.
But that's still stupid.
Nelly girl you should have just kept your mouth SHUT.
Why does he think people were asking what Excel is like he's the only person who doesn't seem to understand exactly what it is and that it's not a text messaging application?
The clarification is that, despite how ludicrous it is to imagine texting someone via Excel spreadsheet, the video producers wanted to feature the phone's ability to work with Excel (which was the new technology at the time), and used these "texts" to feature that technology, despite the fact that no one can send and receive texts via Excel.
This. It was literally just shoehorned product placement.
Finally the mystery is solved, but the explanation is a huge letdown though 
