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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Re: IAWTC

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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	Re: IAWTC 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. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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