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Seems like someone over at Mad TV has a funny love affair with Apple. I'll post a few other vids here soon. Not sure how I missed this one though: new term introduced "iScrewed" Enjoy!
Here is the hysterical (and topical) "iRack and iRan" clip (watch until the end for funny bloopers)
And here is the iPhone video. Watching the audience freak out is too funny (and hits close to fanboy home)
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Okay, the wife didn't approve of my last post. Saying something about "that's not professional" it dawned on me that is seems that only Apple has the fanbase to pull these "iHoaxes" off. Witness how many fake stories, Photoshopped "new product leak" images, and funny derivatives sport the Apple logo. Most of this started around the time of Apple's resurgence with the iMac. I've enclosed a few below. Can you find and link more in the comments section below? We'd all enjoy it. (and I can tell my wife this is real work!)
Fake iTablet
Fake iPod "AV" (pre-dates the iPod Touch by a year)
"iToilets" (Yum)
Real Mini Toilet paper dispenser (created by some Mac-haters who threw away the insides)
My good friend Dave, who lives in Prague, sent me this link - iPood! Too funny.
Any others?
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My brother sent this to me as a joke. Then my other brother dared me to post it on my "boring" blog.
Send hate mail to them. The rest of you can enjoy...until the complaints start rolling in.
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So this was the year of the iPhone. The first consumer device with a new type of user interface, dubbed "Multi-touch" by Apple. Soon the keyboard on the desk with the computer screen at a 90 degree angle and poor ergonomics will go away and we'll all be interacting with computer screens IN our desk. Quick, someone buy stock in Windex...finger smudges are now a fact of life. But that scenario will take a while to fully play out...
However I think an even more important invention slipped by almost unnoticed. I call it "Multi-Touch Marketing." Instead of using multiple fingers to drive a computer device, multi-touch marketing uses multiple points of influence to drive you to make a purchase decision.
Consider my own case. I had no intention of purchasing an iPhone at launch. Yes, I heard, read, even felt the hype...but I'm a sophisticated user, unmoved by such things. All of Apple's carefully crafted messages, its traditional billboard and TV marketing, even the hype of free publicity the iPhone got did little to sway me. But it made an impression. It made me feel like I may be missing out on something. In short, all these various sources of input touched me over and over. But it took three very different "touches" to get me to purchase my iPhone.
It started with this innocuous press release, brilliantly executed by Apple a few weeks before the iPhone launch. Touch 1: the iPhone was "upgraded" with "optical-quality glass for superior scratch resistance and clarity" Touch 2: PCWorld grabbed a new iPhone and "tested" it by intentionally trying to scratch the screen. It survived. Touch 3: A real user tried real hard to scratch their screen and documented the results on YouTube. They failed.
All three of these inputs touched me in a way none of the publicity before it did. You see, I'm a nut when it comes to keeping my technology products looking new. I still haven't taken the plastic wrap off my Gen4 video iPod. So it was only when I read, heard, and watched the iPhone resist screen-scratching that I knew it was for me. I purchased my iPhone the next day. And, like a good early adopter, I spent the last 3 months showcasing and demoing my iPhone for others all over the world. I was seduced by and then became part of Apple's marketing machine without thinking about it.
Multi-touch marketing: multiple sources of input that - taken together - can influence anyone.
P.S. You can scratch the iPhone if you try hard enough...or destroy it all together as fans of "Will it Blend" already know.
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We are so impressed by Apple's great marketing (iPod, iMac, iPhone) that we sometimes forget that Apple doesn't always hit a home run. Witness the dismal failure that is Apple TV. (some people forget that Apple had a Mac TV product that also had a dismal past) Perhaps Apple should have stuck with iTV as the name...)
Link: AppleInsider | First year Apple TV sales fall below expectations.
Here is another great story that tries to get to the bottom of why Apple (and for that matter other all-in-one TV/Computers) seem to fail.
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