Protect Your Feet ... from Apple
Apple’s discovered a better way to shoot off your foot. Maybe it’s already a joke, but this time it seems Apple isn’t just shooting off their own foot, they’re shooting off both feet. And the feet of anyone that actually likes Apple.
Or perhaps it’s just a marketing ploy to get some press. Of course, only Apple would sue their best fans for press. That’s the problem with being a zealot (read: brain washed). No matter how many times someone rakes you over the coals, you just keep coming back. In Apple’s defence, they’re not the only one’s doing it. George Lucas is right up their with Steve Jobs for the top award for fan alienation. When George announced that on a few years before the 20th anniversary of Star Wars’ debut in theatres that he was releasing the videos for the last time ever, I fell for it and immediately bought the box set. Since then, he’s released it a couple more times and then finally after a huge delay released it on DVD. And now he’s talking about yet another release; this time in 3D or something. Nice. For the record, I haven’t bought a Star Wars product since that box set in the early 90’s.
Update: Dean has some good comments about George Lucas and his Star Wars ripoff^H^H^H^H^H^H marketing brilliance.
Wed, 04 May 2005 18:22 Posted in Technology
