“Perhaps one of the best ads ever for Apple Inc. has just landed in the iPhone maker’s lap,” Barbara Kollmeyer reports for MarketWatch. “And it didn’t cost Tim Cook a dime.”
“That moment came at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Capitol Hill on Tuesday evening,” Kollmeyer reports, “when this photo was taken of the press gallery above.”
Wow. The press gallery over the House floor for #SOTU looks like a damn Apple ad. pic.twitter.com/uubqdon5qc
— Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) January 21, 2015
MacDailyNews Take: No, it doesn’t. This is what “damn Apple ad” looks like.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: ‘Tis a Good Thing™ that Steve Jobs decided to turn that Apple logo the right side up way back when!
This image reminds us of this photo of a lecture hall photo taken in 2007 at The Missouri School of Journalism:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
In today’s news media world, deadlines are no longer daily (in other words, you aren’t writing for the nightly prime-time broadcast, or for the evening edition of the paper); your deadline is always NOW. For that, you need to have gear that will always work and that will be fast and intuitive to use.
Obviously, nothing out there works like the Mac.
That says it all..
Priceless!
Looks like the graduates of the Mizzou journalism school (and many other j-schools) take their laptop-using habits with them into the real world.
Americans buying American products. I like it!
Americans BUYING GOOD products, Americans MAKING GOOD products.
But let’s not forget, Jobs was half Syrian and Macs are only half American.
Steve Jobs was 100% American. His racial background is irrelevant.
His ethnic background. There is only one human race. We are all brothers & sisters.
Then why do people call me names?
I don’t mind being called a Damn Yankee. 🙂
well, because you’re a pig?
Exactly. My name is Irish, but I’ve never been to Ireland.
I am 100% American.
Hahaha
People know what works … and what doesn’t.
Wonder how the one “Non-Apple Guy” in front row feels with MacBooks on both sides and all around …..
Like maybe I don’t belong here or I made the wrong choice of laptops …. Either way I’ll be glad when I get outa here!
Jealous would come to mind.
Yea I noticed that watching last night and had a chuckle!! I see alot of Apple logo in the crowd!
Wow! fantastic-impressive, go Apple flying high to the sky. 🙂
Wow — 11 comments and not a single anti-Obama, totally irrelevant, politically divisive comment.
Yet.
And I thought I could always count on MDN readers…
Here’s your anti-Obama comment:
Obama uses a Blackberry. 🙂
I heard he wasn’t allowed to use anything else.
Allowed? If anyone has the influence to change White House policy, my guess is that it would be the president.
I recall that at one point Obama ordered a pile of BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets for his Whitehouse staff. Oops. Once the limitations of the PlayBooks™ were made public, the Whitehouse sent them back. As seen this past week in his college education graph demo, Obama and his staff now use iPads.
yeah, really,
where is the hate?
should’a chimed in by now…
wait…. 1, 2, 3,…
The ever glowing Apple logo, on a sleek aluminum clad piece of Art is EXACTLY why I bought my first 17″ Macbook Pro. Some say it was “The Devil Wears Prada”… Nope! 😀
Could it be that mainstream political journalists use Apple gear because they are not very tech-savvy? Or are very image-conscious? Or are easily hoodwinked by Apple PR? Or is this evidence of a clandestine Apple product placement operation, putting MacBooks in the hands of prominent journalists?
(Scratches head) — There has got to be a downside, some kind of spin that makes Apple look bad. Whatever it is, it will turn up in the headlines soon. Because Good news for Apple doesn’t generate lucrative page views the way Bad news does.
OMFG… That is one very impressive sight. The Apple logo really stands out bright and proud. Were any Surface Pros spotted in the crowd? I just don’t get it. Apple is supposed to be a doomed company.
MacPresident
It is what happens when Government bites Apple. Throw out the pro-Amazon judgment over ebooks!
The legal community has preferred using Macs since the first PowerBook hit the market. They’re standard at law schools. One lawyer I know apologized to me about the Windows box he’d been given at work and assured me he used a Mac at home. 😀