Monday, January 5, 2009 |
18:43 - "Everything is only a few hundred clicks away"
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
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This earns a Heh™:
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
A little out-of-touch (as it were), perhaps—making fun of Macs for being expensive, feature-short, battery-hungry, flimsy, and unintuitive hardly seems like satire founded on legitimate complaint, these days especially. Makes one wonder what Apple could have done to avoid such charges, in fact. It reminds me of nothing so much as what happens when you go into a McDonald's these days and try to find unhealthy food in mass quantities—you can't do it. It's all chicken wraps and nonfat yogurt parfaits, and a friggin' Big Mac is only like 540 measly calories. Not that it helps; the more they do to dispel the popular stereotype, the more vicious it gets. And their competitors, like In-N-Out, whose products are vastly more objectionable on health grounds, are universally loved as a fixture of California/Southwestern culture. Such is life as an icon, I guess.
Still, I gotta give the Onion props for their production values these days. Man, is that ever a slick video. Though it looks a bit mean-spirited in light of recent developments.
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