Why do you think I'm shilling for Apple? I have criticized them here many times, too.
I'm here because I love Vegas (and I spread the word about Vegas wherever I go).
Like many many others in this forum (probably thousands), I like Apple's hardware. We run both OS X and Windows on it.
(I do happen to think that both Windows XP & Vista are offensively ugly, but I obviously have to live with that until Windows 7 comes out.)
Those who have to work with outside post people don't have a choice. It's learn other platforms or sink. Those of you who are lonely wolves don't know how good you have it, your lives are so easy.
I've posted this a time or two over the years, but it's so funny that I have to do it again. Stick through the long intro because it's worth listening to the actual song (which starts 2:40 into the video). Here is "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" doing their classic hit "Every OS Sucks". Be one of several hundred computer nerds who has actually heard it! This song expains it all:
"Teletype 33 looking at two lines of text coming in at 110 baud:" OMG...... punch cards..... carrying six to 10 card boxes between buildings(couple miles apart) because of security, fire safety.....thief.... students looking for campfire materials... ;-)
pushing a couple of 360/67s to their operating limits, watching the old water cooling towers mimic a nuclear cooling tower.... ;-) and watch it all be replace with less than 1/100 of the floorspace and no water cooling ...... and increase in computing power 10x at the minimum ....... but fan noise about 1000% increase of general noise but it did not hide the cries of joy from the programming staff.................. ;-)
...and the core memory was hand-knitted by little old ladies (really!).
1 MB cost about $1M if I recall correctly, but that was enough for a serious machine. That would be 8 million "little donuts" to be knitted into a copper weave.
"...and the core memory was hand-knitted by little old ladies (really!)." ;-) In fact, Cray, CDC, etc..... secret wiring work force was the same old ladies, no engineering backgrounds but exceptional workers. I was totally floored when Cray gave us the 2cent tour of the cpu assembly, majority of the work force was over 50 and female knitters ....... ;-) I made it a point to read the briefings and fine print before traveling to distant lands..now... ;-)
While appreciating the wit and humour above, I am disappointed in some of the partisan and derogatory responses in this thread. Apple has done exactly what you would do if you were promoting your product. The repetition of key words in context is a rhetorical strategy which we all use. Taking those words out of context and stringing them together to ridicule the presenters is a cheap trick. There is neither art nor information in this juxtaposition. And while taking team-sides can be lots of fun, over-identification with any one side impoverishes understanding. The aggressive and conflictual nature of many of the above comments would be an embarrassment on a grade-school playground. Surely the members of this forum are capable of more mature analysis.
Many of us here are artists. Those of us who aren't imagine that we are. There is something about using cliched words like "great", "incredible", "super", and "really nice" that just irritates any artistic sensibilities that we may have. Look, when my 9 year old son shows me his latest super hero drawing, I try to at least describe it as "way cool" or "fantabulous": something that at least has a speck of originality. No I don't begrudge Apple their common adjectives or "super" stock prices, but I certainly don't mind grinning a little at the silliness of it all. Apple may have started off as a fruit, but lately it seems a bit more like high fructose corn sweetener than something you can actually bite into.
"Those of us who aren't imagine that we are." LOL, you've seen some of my sci-fi sketchbooks, well, their better than my singing...... which is considered a criminal offense in the Western hemisphere. ;-)
Thanks xfx for the ideal, using Tim's comments as insight, we can conclude the following;
conspiracy theory - Applegate-
The old tales may be true; An apple keeps the Doctor away,.....
so Steve comes back to Apple,
Apple drains Steve's life force,
Steve leaves Apple to see doctors,
Steve gets better, Apple stumbles little,
Steve comes back to Apple,
Apple starts shining again and fanboys perform
animal mating rituals,
Steve's health is less than ideal.............
Conclusion: having Apple products around can be toxic! Immediately call toxic spill management and report that you have a toxic Apple product! Then go outside, turn on your sprinklers and run thru them naked for about one hour or till you're arrested. If you have an iPhone, you will arrested and beaten by the Green Police for excessive billing paper use, energy use and crazy dancing. The Green Police do routine body cavity searches for iPods, so forgot that ideal unless you're in to that or work for the S.F. DNC. ;-)