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It shows the deep roots smugness has in Apple culture.
Actually Apple's advertisers, Chiat/Day, pushed them into running "Lemmings": neither Jobs nor Sculley was particularly happy with it. And to be fair, when Chiat/Day made "1984" Jobs had loved it but the rest of the Apple board hadn't liked it and had wanted to cancel it. (Source: Isaacson's /Steve Jobs/.) Another example of what Nigel Tufnell observed about cleverness...
I don't understand. In what way was that ad "horrifying"?
The irony is, the IBM PC was a very open machine. The Apple folks were the secretive ones.
The irony is, the IBM PC was a very open machine. The Apple folks were the secretive ones.
The irony is, the IBM PC was a very open machine. The Apple folks were the secretive ones.
You say "were" as though that has somehow changed.
The irony is, the IBM PC was a very open machine. The Apple folks were the secretive ones.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You say "were" as though that has somehow changed.
Do you have the source code to the BIOS now? http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/
However, for those who simply take it for what it is, it's genuinely creepy which is so unusual for advertising. Strange creepy you get every so often, but scary/dark creepy is pretty rare in advertising. With the obvious exception of scared straight PSAs and political ads. Rarely does a business trying to simply sell you a product take such a freaky approach.
Sorry, I'll let you return to your glib observations and poorly thought out conclusions about Apple users, "Apple culture" and whatnot.
Easily one of my favorites. Comments about it are painfully predictable and get split into two basic camps. People try and read all types of bullshit about current Apple into it, and those who make the very simplistic underdogs/countercultrualists-turned-authoritarians observation. However, for those who simply take it for what it is, it's genuinely creepy which is so unusual for advertising. Strange creepy you get e…