“Oprah recently revealed that Microsoft’s Surface tablet is one of her ‘Favorite Things’ of 2012,” Drew blogs for Zagg.
“Then, last night, she tweeted ‘Gotta say love that SURFACE! Have bought 12 already for Christmas gifts,'” Drew reports. “Interesting to note that the tweet was sent from an iPad.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, “Oprah” already “bought” “12” of them.
From her iPad.
Alternate headline: Phony sellout recommends shit to her audience.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” and “Myke” for the heads up.]
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Giving out near-zero apps, slow running, lid cracking, clickety clacking tablet time bombs now? Those sorry people will say “I coulda had a real deal iPad.”
Hehe… That’s awesome. Nice take MDN!
Finally—hard evidence that Oprah has absolutely no taste!
Oh, she has taste – she’s using an iPad.
But she loves the Surface, and the love is so precious — literally. It costs a lot of money for Microsoft.
No. She’s just a whore available to the highest bidder. Obviously Microsoft paid a promotional consideration.
Someone has to foot the bills for that failing network of hers. Why not a failing behemoth tech company?
Bill Gates’ hooker. $5 to blow job the Surface.
Maybe she’s shipping them to those she seeks revenge?
Oprah is such a has-been hack. everyone thinks her word is God. she wouldn’t know good technology if you slapped her fat a$$ with is!
Why do people care about what “celebrities” think? SHe’s famous for being famous, not for tech prowess. The average person in the US is just plain weird…
People care what celebrities think so they can start thinking that way themselves. Not that they’re allowing themselves to be led! People just want to belong. It isn’t just the U.S., either. Sensationalism is a global phenomenon, tapping into a deep well of universal human longing. It’s a club everyone can join but still have a private chapter.
She’ll probably give away a bunch of them to her drooling, adoring audience. Of course Microsoft gave them to her and will include them in their “sales” report.
ouch, Oprah!
quelle faux pas. boo-boo.
though you’re our country’s richest woman,
though you own your own OWN or entire tv network,
and therefore can not be dumb as a business woman,
you sure as hell just sounded like a Twit Tweeting that Surface is your fave, when you personally rather use an iPad, not to mention the 12 Surfaces you bought are gifts, cheap in your OWN opinion!?!
so, your singular, tweet just hurt you on multiple levels:
1. it’s silly
2. it’s dishonest
3. it’s commercial
as you it looks as if you were bribed or paid to promote Microsoft, with no sense or sensibility, not by choice, but through greed or stupidity/dishonesty.
shame. one would think you built your reputation on honesty. but i guess, no billionaire can be pure. plus you’re the culprit who brought us Dr Phil: you proved that our dear USA is the only country worldwide, whose so superficial and far removed from reality, that we as a population, are incapable of distinguishing to what extent, since we depend on teleevangelism and tele reality shows like yours, Phil’s, to tell us like it is, as if we can’t think for ourselves and need to be told how things are, how to think…everywhere else in the world people know what they say and why, only here we have no clue. we don’t need Phil to tell us, as we won’t change. lest you wish to use your Billions to influence our silly government to reeducate us all.
If you receive a Surface from Oprah, it probably means you’re on her enemies list.
Plus, she was probably paid to “substantially” affect sales. Twelve ought to do it.
hahahahaha Well said, sir!
Their sales just doubled!
Goebbels was rich too.
That’s what Oprah gives instead of a lump of coal… The “good kids” on her list get an iPad mini.
M$ fires a guy just to copy Apple.
M$ pays to get the Apple hype.
Oprah lost more credibility.
Celebs know whose ass to kiss.
New Tv shows like Elementary are tied into Win 8 and I’ve even seen magazines like Architecture Digest (!) with Win 8 on the Cover (I thought AD was a paragon of ‘taste’ ?).
msft if spreading $1 billion around to promote Surface and Win 8.
MEANWHILE Apple Marketing is ASLEEP at the WHEEL and BORED…
dudes, where the MacOS X is better than win 8 Vista 2 ads ?
M$ is paying one billion freaking dollars to promote Win 8.
Once trailer trash, always trailer trash.
Didn’t she also LOVE the Pontiac G5 or G6, where is Pontiac now.
I think it was the Aztec, voted “butt-ugly car of the year” three years running by Car & Driver and numerous other car mags.
Surface = the new Coal!
I wonder if it’s ‘Clean Coal’?
The richest woman in America and one of those one per centers who are killing off all the people of color or something like that.
Oprah doesn’t mention that she is not purchasing lumps of coal this year also.
Read a report recently about M$ planting comments on forums to add positive spin about W8 & the Surface whenever one of the M$ faithful starts having a whinge about said fabled products… Oprah was just taking this up in a much bolder fashion but completely blew it when advertising the fact by using an iPad. Class act….
Wow, why the hate Oprah?
Hate is the right word. It is like what a bully does to make themselves feel good.
I’m sure once she uses the surface a while, it will go in a drawer somewhere. Anyone can make a mistake. I just feel bad for the people that buy it using her recommendation.
Because it’s the one emotion a lot of those on this forum feel — a knotted-up, immature, testosterone raging hate directed at anyone and anything that isn’t within their set of approved ideas and things.
LOL! Never liked Oprah from day one. All I going to say some one on her technical staff is going to get their ass fired for this mistake.
She’s a sellout.
Take a look at her audience. I for one never liked her and I really do wonder if MS paid her.
Even if she tweeted from her IPad doesn’t mean anything coming from her. She is just another person who had to have one simply for that reason.
Who’s Opera? Who cares?
I predict that the Surface will be every bit as successful as Oprah’s OWN network!
Oprah pays people to tweet for her. She doesn’t have time for that petty stuff. So she is depositing her check from Microlimp (figuratively) and a flunky uses the piece of technology closest at hand, the one everybody grabs first, the iPad, and fulfills their duty to the queen, issuing the missive from the Monkey Boy network. That flunky, if still employed, will now have a surface welded to their hand. That’s the real crime here…
I bet she voted for Obama cuz of his policies too…
She also raved about Obama. Enough said.