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hangingfire ([info]hangingfire) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-16 15:56:00
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Current mood: amused
Current music:Charlotte Gainsbourg, "Jamais"

Fun with Apple!
In which a misinformed blog posting causes stock droppage (maybe), panic (yes), and wank (definitely).

The chain of events goes something like this:

Engadget: ZOMG! The iPhone and Leopard are going to be delayed! Internal email says so!
Apple haters: IN YOUR FACE, APPLE!
Apple fans: Bullsh!t! Show us proof!
Apple stock: *thud*
Apple: Um, just one good goddamn minute. No. Not true. Here's an official press release and everything.
Engadget: Um. Oops. Sowwy.
Engadget commenters: *lots of shouting, including taking Engadget to task for printing something unsubstantiated*

Good times.

Mostly, I'd really like to see Steve Jobs's face right now -- I'm sort of surprised I didn't hear the blast in Cupertino all the way from Texas. And I'd really hate to be the Apple employee(s) who leaked the fake email to Engadget.


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[info]princessdot
2007-05-16 09:07 pm UTC (link)
Damn, that woulda been a great time to buy!

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[info]rimrunner
2007-05-17 04:37 am UTC (link)
Oh good, I wasn't the only person who thought this...

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[info]marciamarcia
2007-05-18 03:08 am UTC (link)
Not by a long shot. :)

We should form a greedy bastards club.

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[info]gloria_mundi
2007-05-16 09:59 pm UTC (link)
On a slightly unrelated topic, the latest Mac and PC ad, entiteld "Genius"

http://www.apple.com/getamac/

Somebody at Apple has an LJ and is a slasher. Because that last line? That pretty much proves it.

Oh, Apple, how I love you.

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[info]hangingfire
2007-05-16 10:01 pm UTC (link)
^_^ I'm guessing you're familiar with mac_hearts_pc, then?

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[info]gloria_mundi
2007-05-16 10:03 pm UTC (link)
I'm aware off it, yes. Though it doesn't look like they know about that one yet.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-17 01:30 am UTC (link)
Actually, they posted about it a little while back. General consensus was he probably meant 'love', but he couldn't just come out and say it on TV. The Genius, being a genius, figured it out anyway. ^_~

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[info]kittenmommy
2007-05-18 09:31 pm UTC (link)
Did you know that the UK has their own Mac vs. PC commercials with a different PC and Mac?

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[info]kittenmommy
2007-05-16 11:42 pm UTC (link)
On a slightly unrelated topic, the latest Mac and PC ad, entiteld "Genius"

I just watched it twice (and put on headphones the second time) and I still can't tell if PC is saying "how much do I love Mac" or "how much do I loathe Mac". I'm assuming it's "love", but in the general context of the Mac vs. PC commercials, "loathe" would probably work too. ;)

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[info]littlest_lurker
2007-05-16 11:55 pm UTC (link)
FWIW, I heard loathe. Also, the way John Hodgman said "oh, a genius" makes me giggle.

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[info]kittenmommy
2007-05-16 11:57 pm UTC (link)

FWIW, I heard loathe. Also, the way John Hodgman said "oh, a genius" makes me giggle.

That entire campaign is made of sex and win.

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[info]kittenmommy
2007-05-17 12:01 am UTC (link)
PS. Looks like someone else heard "loathe" too.

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[info]marsdragon
2007-05-17 05:36 am UTC (link)
Pretty sure it's loathe. Why would he be asking her how much he loved Mac? And it's way way funnier with "loathe". That makes it about the only one of those commercials that ever amused me.

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[info]bitca
2007-05-17 03:32 pm UTC (link)
It's loathe. I was wondering where the slash was coming from and was confused until I read the comments and thought people were hearing "love."

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[info]mcity
2007-05-16 11:15 pm UTC (link)
It's a blog, people. We're not expecting Bill O'Reilly level of hard-hitting investigative journalism here. And that's the word.

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[info]frequentmouse
2007-05-16 11:23 pm UTC (link)
I'm really impressed by the evidence of razor-sharp minds among the commenters accusing Steve Jobs of this 'sode.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-05-17 04:41 am UTC (link)
And here I was hoping Apple stock would drop because people were as annoyed by their latest shitty ad campaign as I was.

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[info]makeshyft
2007-05-17 08:25 am UTC (link)
Could be worse.

They coulda been done by the people making Starburst commericals right now.

"Apples in wank, Apples in wank, I'm a little boy who loves apples and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank!"

/jazzhands

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[info]semtex
2007-05-17 09:04 am UTC (link)
TRUFAX. Just say no to jazzhands.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-05-17 08:00 pm UTC (link)
I have been curiously unaware of these Starburst commercials. Do I dare youtube it?

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[info]makeshyft
2007-05-18 12:47 am UTC (link)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jhrJdCE9V6c

Bask in the shortpants'ed WTFness.

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[info]sakemaki
2007-05-18 01:46 am UTC (link)
What the..

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-05-18 06:06 am UTC (link)
I...No Starburst, just no.

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[info]makeshyft
2007-05-20 09:35 am UTC (link)
Awww.. but there's THIS too..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ik8xpHdItrE

A friend's suggested that if you put enough tirbute videos of that and Hard Gay clips on YouTube, the internet wil actually implode from the collected stereotypical gayness.

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[info]semtex
2007-05-17 08:55 am UTC (link)
Every time I see another one of those ads I want to yell "STOP IT YOU'RE MAKING MY SIDE LOOK BAD!" they are that smug.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-05-17 06:39 pm UTC (link)
They've more or less affirmed my decision never to touch an Apple product with anything less than a fifty foot pole. Just call me crazy, but it's bad form to talk down to the majority of the consumer base.

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IAWTC
[info]semtex
2007-05-18 04:28 am UTC (link)
It is extreeemly tacky, that ad campaign. With that angle, they're just preaching to the converted, so wtf mate? >:(
Is it some clever psychological ploy to make Windows users feel lame and omg not kewl enough that they have to run out and buy Apple shit?

The way I am, if I was not an Apple user and I saw those fucking ads all sneering away at me, I'd be all "STFU APPLE I'M NOT BUYING SHIT."

And as someone who does Apple tech support …some of those ads are what I gently call "misleading" mmkay?

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Re: IAWTC
[info]wrongly_amused
2007-05-18 06:23 am UTC (link)
I think one of the main problems with Mac advertising these days is that they've actually bought into that whole "exclusive community" BS surrounding the Apple company. Reality check: it's a computer, not an Freemason Association.


And as someone who does Apple tech support …some of those ads are what I gently call "misleading" mmkay?

After I watched the "genius ad," I turned to my sister and said, "How @%@#$#@! naive do they think we are?" Because I totally believe that getting me a Mac will free me of all the unavoidable issues that come hand in hand with technology. 9_9

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[info]semtex
2007-05-19 01:41 am UTC (link)
Oh right, and I'm not going to go into the average home user's issues versus the hardcore user's issues (publishing and design industry, yeah I'm LOOKING AT YOU).
I've seen things, my friend. THINGS.

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Re: IAWTC
[info]chibikaijuu
2007-05-18 06:52 am UTC (link)
Though, as a life-long Apple customer, I will say that the most annoying, frequently-fucked up Mac we've had was STILL less of a pain to fix than the one PC we own. Though I suspect it's much more annoying when you aren't in the heart of Apple Country and don't have access to at least three nearby stores with Genius Bars.

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True story!
[info]semtex
2007-05-18 02:45 pm UTC (link)
One of my Apples is a second-generation iMac (ROOOBY RED) AND IS STILL RUNNING* with minimal fuss. Of course it's a twee slow but it's a good place to store obnoxious macros, porn and bittorrented anime files on my home network.

*Although, not with the same hard drive, or memory, etc, etc

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Re: True story!
[info]frequentmouse
2007-05-19 12:09 am UTC (link)
My nine-year-old limeMac just lost its power supply, and what's out on the market is expensive and unwarrantable, so I'm getting a Mac Mini soon. We've had Macs since the very early nineties. My husband was maintaining a college computer lab with both PCs and Apples, and it has been his choice all along not to have to deal with Windows OS problems after work- especially now that he manages a Winserve environment (different job).

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Re: True story!
[info]semtex
2007-05-19 01:37 am UTC (link)
Oh I do not envy your husbands' job.
The little troubleshooting experience I've had* has left me with a feeling of DO NOT WANT.

But I admit Windbloze XP Pro's built in remote desktop capabilities are superior. *waits for vicious beatings by Apple fanboys*

*contrary to popular belief, just because one is proficient with one platform doesn't mean the can't munge their way around the other!

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[info]semtex
2007-05-17 09:01 am UTC (link)
Oh goody, OS wank. Like I don't get enough of that at work.

(I want to either smack the raging Apple/Microsoft/Novell/Linux fanboys together in the heads to get them all to STFU and agree on something or exact my revenge to writing urple RPS featuring them all, but that could just INJURE MY BRAIN TOO MUCH.)

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[info]isa
2007-05-17 05:25 pm UTC (link)
Eeeee tiny happy lolsnake! ::snuggles::

...yeah, sorry, ignore me. CUTENESS!

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[info]semtex
2007-05-18 04:30 am UTC (link)
Lolsnake is pleased with this comment!

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[info]marciamarcia
2007-05-18 03:10 am UTC (link)
What is that snake doing with Gilbert Godfrey's teeth?

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[info]semtex
2007-05-18 04:31 am UTC (link)
Oh, sweet mystery. Maybe he ate him?

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[info]yaoiko
2007-05-18 06:42 am UTC (link)
...Oh, oh fuck you.


I liksed this keyboard, and now it's all soda-y. D:

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