“At a highly anticipated media event Tuesday at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduced a new Apple product he said would ‘revolutionize’ the process of unveiling new products throughout the world,” The Onion reports.
“‘In 1984, Apple introduced the Mac,’ Jobs said to an overflowing crowd as an image of the first Macintosh computer was displayed on a giant screen behind him. ‘We changed the face of the music industry with the first iPod in 2001. And in January, we showed off the revolutionary new iPhone. Today, Apple is releasing a piece of innovative new technology that will forever change the way innovative new technology is released,'” The Onion reports.
The Onion reports, “The iLaunch, as the new product is called, was then raised up from below the stage, prompting the audience of technology journalists, developers, and self-professed ‘Apple fanatics’ to burst into a five-minute standing ovation.”
“Described in its patent filing as a ‘hype-generating mechanism with fully integrated Mac compatibility,’ the iLaunch is powered by Intel dual-core processors optimized to calculate a product’s gravitas. Apple claims the iLaunch can garner the same amount of press attention as a major scientific discovery, high court ruling, celebrity meltdown, or natural disaster at 200 times the speed of a traditional media-fostered launch,” The Onion reports.
The Onion reports, “‘If you want to condition the public to liken your product to the telephone and the internal combustion engine in importance, that’s now possible with iLaunch,’ Jobs said. ‘And it’s so easy, even an intern can use it.’ …Shortly after Jobs’ address, Microsoft announced that they are working on a similar product, the Launch-O, due to debut in 2009.”
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dion,” “Jim,” “Chris,” and many others for the heads up.]
@ Stab the Man (the surreal one) – ding, ding, ding: time to take your medication, “stab”….
@ Fatty Arbuckle: “Part of the fun of satire is the people who DON’T catch on”
Part of the fun of satire is watching people like Fatty try to explain it to us all that some of us don´t get news presented on a factual news site (MDN) as satire. One is either a news site or a joke site….or maybe a joke of a news site…
“Shortly after Jobs’ address, Microsoft announced that they are working on a similar product, the Launch-O, due to debut in 2009.”
Getting up off the floor now.
“Shortly after Jobs’ address, Microsoft announced that they are working on a similar product, the Launch-O, due to debut in 2009.”
Won’t be out till 2012 because of delays.
It looks like MDN thought the article was real. Too funny!
Hey, what’s up with all of these True ads in web pages these days. I think I’m going to get into trouble surfing at work now. (But I do like them!)
Can only twice the mentioned Onion podcast. I rarely read their stuff these days but that podcast is very clever. Very British take on humor. American’s rarely get (or enjoy) that dry or subtle style of fun. They seem to need a pre announcement – “now there’s something funny coming up y’all”, audience laughter a big plus. Overproduced in-the-face-humor. Oddly enough, some of the funniest people I’ve ever met were American’s. Oh well.
Why do some of you think that MDN thought it was real? Just because they didn’t say anything? Do you people actually vote and procreate?
Some of you guys are hilarious. I was laughing reading the title on mdn’s homepage ffs.
No way they thought itn was real…
No way they thought itn was real…
No way they thought itn was real…