Fonzie (Henry Winkler) discusses Apple iPhone on CBS Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

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Henry Winker, aka Arthur Herbert “The Fonz” Fonzarelli, visits CBS Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to discuss one of this summer’s most anticipated events, the debut of the Apple iPhone:

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jim U.” for the heads up.]
No shark jumping here. “Aaay!” Two thumbs up!

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  7. I bet Ballmer is going nuts over all the iPhone media buzz. Why didn’t the media treat the Zune with as much fawning attention? (rhetorical)

    And those execs at Verizon who turned down Apple and the iPhone can’t be too happy either. I’m going to enjoy the schadenfreude all summer long!

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  15. HEY – Ferguson ain’t beleaguered. No way. He competes on his own terms, and quite effectively. And his monologues are WAY funnier than either Conan or Jimmy, simply because they are not scripted. Ever. It’s better that way, IMO, too.

    Back OT – that was a funny bit.

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  19. “There’s probably just a huge brown and red explosion stain and a disturbing monkey smell all over Ballmer’s office.”

    People talk about iPhone “hype”, but it’s not hype: it really is an amazing device, and people’s interest in it is not marketing-driven, so much as driven by what it actually is in itself.

    What did Monkey Boy expect? That people would spontaneously talk about the Surface if MS hyped it up a bit and fed talking-points to journalists who were either too lazy to look into what they were being shown or too “friendly” to Microsoft to care what nonsense they were recycling.

    It’s twenty-year old technology. It’s five friggin cameras in a bathtub. It’s the sort of thing amateurs have been building in their garages in their spare time. It monstrously oversized; it’s clumsy; it only works in a darkened room. It’s just a big ass table.

    The Zune was about “hype”. It was an advertising event, a feed- compliant-journalists-lines event, an astroturfing event. So was Vista. Few people give a flying fuck about either.

    Jobs knows how to present, but it’s the product that’s the thing. iPhone has caught the public imagination. It’s a cultural event.

    Microshaft should try building something “insanely great”, something that stands on its own merits, something people might actually want, lust after.

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  21. “It’s five friggin cameras in a bathtub.”

    Man, oh man! I just laughed out loud! Thanks for that.

    I think every MS Surface also comes with a tiny programmer wedged inside for debugging and motion tracking. Since he’ll die within days your warranty is void after one week. It’s Ballmer’s secret plan for getting rid of the bottom 5% of employees.

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