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It's that time again - Internet (and tech) Event of the Year: 2007
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What the hell is it with everyone and the iPhone?
It didn't DO anything. It is pretty, and it is popular, but there is nothing SIGNIFICANT about it.
Yeah, that whole Rick Roll thing, though I don't quite understand it, was everywhere. It even appeared on Family Guy if I remember properly.
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The iPod boom box on the shoulder is a nice touch there...
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The iPhone was definitely popular, and caught media attention because of its branding, but I do not see how simple popularity makes it at all a notable event.
But dude... It has an "i" before it, so clearly it's superior to everything else on the market. Bastards at Apple have seriously thought of everything.
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I told them the iPod had some shitty software that you had to install in order to get it working, so hopefully they spend LESS money to get a better mp3 player.
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Yeah, I'd have to agree. For a device that lacks native Outlook integration, I was surprised by how many people at my workplace was interested in the iPhone. As you can imagine, MS folks live and breath by their access to e-mail and Outlook calendars, and many of them (myself included) own WinMobile devices. So I was surprised by just how "catchy" and pervasive Apple's marketing had made the iPhone.
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If anything Apple should win for the biggest marketing asshole.
If they win anything legitimate, I'll be pissed.
For some reason that commercial reminds me of the PSP one. Where you have that annoying guy going around telling you how great the PSP is at every moment of everyday. Ugh..
Y'know what's funny about the Apple vs. PC shit?
Apple's marketing may be aggressive, but PC user advocates who are against Apple are the most extreme people ever.
How about the commercial that says Macs can run Vista faster than PCs. Don't they use the same hardware?
That was hardly the point.
None of the Mac users I know (which exceeds at least 30 people included WoW guildmates and other internet folk) fit this profile of "elitist jerk" that extreme Apple haters tag them with. Complain about the commercial, that's gravy. But the users themselves? Pfft.
Also, I realize you did indeed only comment on the commercials. I just wanted to nip this shit in the bud.
Those commercials used to be funny and cute. However maybe it's just me (I am supposed to be biased after all, although I admit, if I didn't work here, I'd probably be typing this on MacBook sipping a chai latte), but the more these ads run, the more it just seems like the Mac guy is just ... too smug for his own good. Can commercials really "jump the shark"? Seems like Apple should quit while they're ahead and try something new. At this point, I wonder if they're pissing off PC users for making them look like idiots, than convincing them to switch to a Mac.
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I don't care either way about which is 'better'. They all have their purpose and I use Windows, Linux, and Mac equally. Or rather I would if I had a Mac.
My nomination is still Rickroll!
For non-serious stuff, yeah either lolcats or RickRoll. Maybe we should have two categories then?
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What on earth is so special about Facebook? I just made an account and I don't see anything even remotely usefull about it.
My own last minute suggestion which I've just read about, which had better beat lolcats..
Glowing cats. http://inventorspot.com/articles/scientists_create_glowinthedark__9191
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upQ_a-ch-pU
I'd read about someone doing this with rabbits (Eduardo Kac, I believe), and now it's cats. Awesome, if scary as hell.
Nobody I know has a Facebook or MySpace account.
ignoring all the other responses, I'll say this, it's the marketing that makes us so nuts.
on the subject of those commercials, I find it funny how mac sells itself, first the represent themselves as non conformists, when in actuality it's their own stringent (read: fascist) regulations that allowed PC's and now LINUX of all things to beat them for market share on the home and business fronts respectively. on top of that think about which guy you'd rather do business with? the scruffy guy who looks like he's off his meds, or the guy in the suit, who's a little uptight, but probably at least somewhat reliable?
Yeah, keeps me in touch with people that I meet in class.
I also moved around a lot during school, since my dad was in the Air Force. I've been able to get contact of people that I met back in Germany about 7 years ago. Hell, back then I didn't even know the Internet existed. And I lost a lot of people's addresses when I moved back to the US.
Glow-in-the-dark cats!
You weren't able to FIND people ten years ago.
Now companies can do obscenely-detailed background checks on new hires with a Google search.
I don't know what you're on about.
Them: O_o
Me: "It's a joke from PA! I swear! There's this guy, see? He always poses shirtless and does some body builder pose. I was just copying him!"
That was a fun week or two.
Why would you have such a thing associated with your real name?
For some reason I had a mental image these cats were glowing green, kinda like the glow in the dark stickers/stars, but that wasn't the case. Screw the cats... why didn't they make a glow in the dark snake? (something that isn't a huge fur ball)