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.]
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#11) “Thou shalt not have to be pissed at thine phone.”
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.
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.
“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, maybe with 3G.
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!!!
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The iPhones in that cartoon have 12 icons on the screen… hmmmmmm. Wonder what the cartoonist knows that we don’t.
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.
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.
But the thing is, it is clever, there’s more than a grain of truth in it, and it is funny.
Steve doesn’t need a name tag.
” The iPhones in that cartoon have 12 icons on the screen… hmmmmmm. Wonder what the cartoonist knows that we don’t.”
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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.
Okay, now THAT is hype!
(but again, it’s not Apple’s hype but everyone’s else’s hype)
Glad that Apple added that 12th icon – 11 was just bugging the shit out of me! You know it was Steve and Jonny, too.
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.
Ahhhh, Twisted Mac Freak, that joke is so right up my alley.
I thought the iPhone was smaller than that. Not sure it will fit in my pocket now.
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this is wrong on so many levels I don’t even want to get started
mw – ‘led’, are you kidding me!
Does this prophesy Apple tablets?
You should have seen it when he parted San Fransisco bay
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You would have to find a copy of this tome to find out.
“All that’s missing is the burning bush.”
That will be George W. if he doesn’t manage to get his hands on one this Friday.
Let there be iLife.
Not until Leopard, then they’ll release it cross platform. Finally iPhoto for the PC!