“Well played, Apple, well played,” Ewan Spence writes for Forbes.
“You don’t normally expect Cupertino to go for a subtle laugh,” Spence writes. “Phil Schiller throwing a barbed comment at Android in a keynote presentation, yes, but not an actual slice of hidden humour.”
“Your expectation was wrong,” Spence writes. “A support page for Apple Watch is going to be the number one entry in ‘Top Five Apple Jokes’ for many a year to come.”
“The initials of the friends already listed run NE VE RG ON NA GI VE YU UP. Apple just rickrolled you,” Spence writes. “The faithful will already have bought their Apple Watches. The job of Apple now is to bring new users to the platform, and that means making it attractive, making it visible, and making it fun… it creates an intense water-cooler moment around the world, increases the buzz around the Apple Watch, and punctures the stuffiness and earnestness that was built up around the Apple Watch.”
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MacDailyNews Take: This one’s got Hair Force One’s fingerprints all over it.
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nice one
That’s just awesome!
“NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP!”
And son, that is how you rickroll someone. . .
I’ve never heard of the term rickroll before. Can someone please explain what it means and its origin?
Imagine you click on YouTube video of “The faked trip to the Moon”. Instead, what you get is video playing “Never Gonna Give You Up” by some Rick band. That’s when you’ve been rickrolled.
What’s with the downvote? You answered the question perfectly.
Rick Astley was a one hit wonder with his song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Whenever you click on a web link that redirects you to his music video, you’ve been “rickrolled”. It’s been a popular meme to do this to unsuspecting folks for years.
But it only counts if you were tricked, and you were expecting something completely different. The phenomenon has even been discussed on Anderson Cooper’s Ridiculist on Anderson 360.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rickroll
Here’s a lot more detailed information:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rickroll
Jinx!