Comments on: The Apple Product Cycle

The Apple Product Cycle

weston — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:00:51 -0800

Lather, rinse, repeat. "The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while zealots counter that it is both smaller and lighter than a Buick Regal. The virtual slap-fight goes on and on, until obscure technical nuances like,'Will it play multiplexed Ogg Vorbis streams?' become matters of life and death." Perhaps 1 Infinite Loop has an archetypical drama. [more q daily newsfilter]

By: scalz

scalz — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 06:11:55 -0800

Okay. Well, um, so what? Most of us in the Mac community have seen this already... weeks old. It's some mildly humorous satire, with a little truth and a bit of exaggeration. What's the point of posting it here?

By: zeoslap

zeoslap — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 06:46:05 -0800

Ha, that's funny, and just for the record f*ck the iPod.

By: Jart

Jart — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 06:59:56 -0800

Most of us in the Mac community have seen this already... Well, now people outside of the cult can have a laugh at their expense... isn't that fair?

By: John Kenneth Fisher

John Kenneth Fisher — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:13:48 -0800

Ha, that's funny, and just for the record, I want to f*ck my iPod.

By: majick

majick — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:51:09 -0800

You know, they really ought to fix that whole Ogg Vorbis problem. I might think about buying one of those thingies if it would actually, you know, work with my data.

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:57:00 -0800

he finds most "Mac people" to be tiresome and annoying. He is pretty sure that if he had to attend WWDC or Macworld, he would wind up slapping the shit out of a bunch of people yes.

By: weston

weston — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 09:25:56 -0800

It's some mildly humorous satire, with a little truth and a bit of exaggeration.What's the point of posting it here? Much truth and much exaggeration, I think. Even as a mac owner, I hadn't seen it and I thought it was hilarious and I'm glad a few other people were amused. Plus I was hoping somebody -- freebird? Ethereal Bligh? -- might pick up the Mircea Eliade angle. But you don't always get what you wish for. Anybody seen that "no, you can't have a pony" picture?

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 09:53:28 -0800

Absolutely hilarious. The only things that needed to be integrated into the satirical storie are kittens and ponies. (It already has Maria Bartiromo...)

By: fenriq

fenriq — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:01:05 -0800

Hey everybody, go read Mr. Obvious' latest stupidity. Who does he think he is? Dave Barry?