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The Simpsons Gets 20 Years of Apple Jokes Out of the Way at Once
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be curious to see if they are around next week.
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And since I didn't see the episode, did anyone else think that Lisa was getting something for free, a la someone who complains, like we see on Consumerist?
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They've been over the news a lot lately with all the 'new' stuff coming out. Is Matt Groening obligated only to make fun of stuff when it's brand new anyway?
Apple didn't bring anything new the past few months and yet it's screaming all they're stuff is so spectacular. It's not. Other brands bring out new Laptops every week.
I do agree Futurama is more fun though.
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LEAST TIMELY EPISODE EVER!
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
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*sob*
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Then make way for Futurama.
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LOL!
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[www.coolhunting.com]
And to me, an iPhony is someone who professes individuality through the purchase of mass-produced consumer electronics from global corporations.
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Reading that coolhunting article, I was an early adopter to the ipod and I did switch to black earbuds later on, not because everyone else had white ones and I wanted to be different, it's just the sound quality out of standard ipod earbuds is so terrible...
But I did notice people buying white earbuds and using them on other players, I think it was one of the saddest things I've ever seen (that and the recent pic someone posted of an MSI(?) laptop with an apple logo over the MSI one...
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The white earbuds were one the biggest "duhs" of electronic marketing and a continuation of the Oldsmobile lesson that, as far as gadgets are concerned, only Apple ever bothered to learn.
Charles Olds famously ran a negative campaign against Ford with the line "You can get a Ford in any color you want, as long as that color is black". Olds came up with such novel ideas as selling cars in different colors and making slight changes to trim to justify selling a new model car every year.
Apple was selling multicolored computers when every PC was a beige box and all-in-ones when every PC was a matte-black tower. When everyone shipped players with black headphones, Apple looked at how people actually use a portable player and realized it could advertise the product with white headphones. A Walkman is kept in the pocket; only the headphones are visible. It shouldn't have taken manufacturers long to figure that out.
It took other manufacturers over a year to come up with the novel idea of shipping white headphones.
Apple ships a lot of problem products - like the G4 Cube that was mocked in the episode; the one thing they don't screw up is marketing. While there are flops - the Mac mini and AppleTV - the brand is one of the strongest brands in the world.
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To both the Simpsons and Apple.
:V
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haha i thought it was funny. it did capture my excitement for apple well: they release amazing products, i buy them. Most of their products are years ahead of other products time. its great. There is a reason apple has so many fanboys
(:
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years ahead? usually they're several months behind, but in a pretty package.
see: ipod, any macintosh hardware updates
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