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Washington Post editorial comic shows Steve Jobs, Apple iPhone

Sunday, June 24, 2007 · 11:11 am · 41 Comments

The Washington Post published an editorial comic by Nick Anderson regarding Apple’s iPhone on June 21st:

Complete comic image here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "RadDoc" for the heads up.]

MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s iPhone has permeated U.S. culture far and wide. This is going to be some week!

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TowerTone

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:19 am · Reply

#11) “Thou shalt not have to be pissed at thine phone.”
macromancer

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:22 am · Reply

It’s things like these that make people think Apple is some sort of cult, and Apple has nothing to do with this. Maybe the fanaticism of some of the users goes a little far, but all this does is cement that idea in people’s minds and I think it’s a tad unjustified.
Superman vs. Muhammad Ali

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:35 am · Reply

The iPhone is not a some sort God machine, Ultimate Artifact, or a spontaneous fulfillment of all human potential. But I think it gives you an idea of what such a device might look like.
the other Mark

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:35 am · Reply

“It’s things like these that make people think Apple is some sort of cult, and Apple has nothing to do with this. “

Exactly. Apple makes a few announcements and has a couple of ads and the press goes berserk. For the past 6 months, commentators, reviewers, blogs have talked about the iPhone and it hasn’t even been released. Who is creating this hype? I don’t think it was all created by Apple or Jobs.
Come to Asia quick!!

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:37 am · Reply

Come to Asia quick, maybe with 3G.
TechGuru

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:43 am · Reply

Apple iPhone has eaten away my mind for the paqst 6 months. I can’t wait to lay my hand on it. It’s an amazing product, considering how much the best companies have failed to produce such a convergence product. Kudos to Steve’s brains. You got to appreciate brain power and let the consumers do the rest. Hat’s off Steve!!!
Albert One Stone

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:45 am · Reply

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
BuriedCaesar

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:57 am · Reply

The iPhones in that cartoon have 12 icons on the screen… hmmmmmm. Wonder what the cartoonist knows that we don’t.
Big Al

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 12:10 pm · Reply

Oh come on!

This is classic editorial comic satire.

The pundits have been saying the iPhone is the greatest invention since sliced bread or they have been paid, by the people who have the most to lose with this cell phone sea change, to say the exact opposite.

Steve descending from the mount with the iTablets is hilarious. All that’s missing is the burning bush.
January 24, 1984

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 12:11 pm · Reply

Let there be iLife.

If you have to grab the life preserver of certainty, this is a better belief system than the formative years Pablum shoveled to so many of us.

One step closer to immortality through extra-somatic memory.
steve

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 12:16 pm · Reply

But the thing is, it is clever, there’s more than a grain of truth in it, and it is funny.
No Squirt For You

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 12:26 pm · Reply

Steve doesn’t need a name tag.
Artist

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 12:30 pm · Reply

” The iPhones in that cartoon have 12 icons on the screen… hmmmmmm. Wonder what the cartoonist knows that we don’t.”

uTube button
Twisted Mac Freak

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 12:30 pm · Reply

On his way up the mountain, Jobs spent an hour listening to a chatty burning bush before he realized it was just a coked up Lindsay Lohan spread out on a big rock.
The Other Steve

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 12:57 pm · Reply

Okay, now THAT is hype!

(but again, it’s not Apple’s hype but everyone’s else’s hype)
Cubert

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 2:10 pm · Reply

Glad that Apple added that 12th icon – 11 was just bugging the shit out of me! You know it was Steve and Jonny, too.
Cubert

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 2:14 pm · Reply

Superman vs. Muhammad Ali,
A couple of decades ago, Ali could have put up a good fight, but right now, I KNOW Superman would win. Even if Muhammad Ali had kryptonite, he couldn’t get it out of his pocket fast enough.
Cubert

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 2:15 pm · Reply

Ahhhh, Twisted Mac Freak, that joke is so right up my alley.
Spark

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 2:33 pm · Reply

I thought the iPhone was smaller than that. Not sure it will fit in my pocket now.
tmsruge

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 2:44 pm · Reply

this is wrong on so many levels I don’t even want to get started

mw – ‘led’, are you kidding me!