A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
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A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
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#2The title of the linked page is "A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials".
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#3I'm surprised the author missed the most obvious weirdness: Every message ends with a punctuation mark.
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#4Okay that was surprisingly funny to read through. It's interesting how in isolation the texts are probably fine and work well for demonstrating the software, but taken together they do present an oddly stilted view of the world.
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#5I'm surprised the author missed the most obvious weirdness: Every message ends with a punctuation mark.
> These eerily cheery, aggressively punctuated messages suggest a alternate dimension
I don't believe they did.
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#6> Dimension Apple trip destinations have become increasingly vague, as the “Road Trip” group chat suggests, part of an overall and troubling vague-ening of the Dimension Apple
This bit was hilarious. It's comfort food in the same vein as the Barbie movie - everyone is polished and no one needs to work.
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#7If you worked on these images, surely you would be irresistably tempted to leave little easter eggs referring to past characters? "Hey Kim, how are you doing?" "Great, thanks! Apart from going a littleh hard on the ravioli last night!".
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#8I don’t think real world messages would look good in marketing copy, too many emojis, “uhhh”, “no cap” and bathroom pics. I don’t know what the author is expecting/analyzing here.
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#9If you worked on these images, surely you would be irresistably tempted to leave little easter eggs referring to past characters? "Hey Kim, how are you doing?" "Great, thanks! Apart from going a littleh hard on the ravioli last night!".
"Dinh ran off with some floozy from a group chat about the presentation on Tuesday. :cucumber: :sunset: :shoe:"
Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
#10I'm surprised the author missed the most obvious weirdness: Every message ends with a punctuation mark.
woah periods, so aggressive
apple employees: blink twice if you’re okay