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It is hard to describe the joy I felt when Monday's class eventually settled on Apple's wonder gadget - the iPhone. For weeks leading up to its release I found the iPhone an almost infinite source of humour. If Apple is the new McDonalds then iPhone is the Big Mac Combo: burger, friers and a coke. A quick search on YouTube and I discovered two short clips that I think will enhance your own personal iPhone experience.
#1 - The iPhone's functionality and superior gadgetry
#2 - The political aspirations of Apple
I guess the only downside to putting all of your eggs into one basket is that when you drop the basket all of your eggs will smash. Imagine losing your cellphone, internet connectivity and iPod in one foul swoop! Luddism here we come! Continuing the metaphor, the end product of the Will It Blend guy's blendtastic efforts could be coined 'scrambled eggs'.
Despite all the knocking, I still want an iPhone. Don't call me a hypocrite, I'm just technologically confused. There's something inherently sexy about the damn thing. It's the Porsche 911 of cellphones - expensive, fast, good looking and the envy of all your Honda driving friends. "Who cares what it can do, it makes me feel good!" Regretfully, in a penis enlargement pills-like dilemma, the iPhone may not live up to the personal fulfillment expectations of many eager Americans.
I guess that's enough from me. Feel free to add your own 2 cents worth. Regretfully, this 2 cents (US) would only leave you 1 / 30,000th of the way to buying your first 8GB iPhone.
Lucas Cooney
http://www.myspace.com/kooneyman
It is hard to describe the joy I felt when Monday's class eventually settled on Apple's wonder gadget - the iPhone. For weeks leading up to its release I found the iPhone an almost infinite source of humour. If Apple is the new McDonalds then iPhone is the Big Mac Combo: burger, friers and a coke. A quick search on YouTube and I discovered two short clips that I think will enhance your own personal iPhone experience.
#1 - The iPhone's functionality and superior gadgetry
#2 - The political aspirations of Apple
I guess the only downside to putting all of your eggs into one basket is that when you drop the basket all of your eggs will smash. Imagine losing your cellphone, internet connectivity and iPod in one foul swoop! Luddism here we come! Continuing the metaphor, the end product of the Will It Blend guy's blendtastic efforts could be coined 'scrambled eggs'.
Despite all the knocking, I still want an iPhone. Don't call me a hypocrite, I'm just technologically confused. There's something inherently sexy about the damn thing. It's the Porsche 911 of cellphones - expensive, fast, good looking and the envy of all your Honda driving friends. "Who cares what it can do, it makes me feel good!" Regretfully, in a penis enlargement pills-like dilemma, the iPhone may not live up to the personal fulfillment expectations of many eager Americans.
I guess that's enough from me. Feel free to add your own 2 cents worth. Regretfully, this 2 cents (US) would only leave you 1 / 30,000th of the way to buying your first 8GB iPhone.
Lucas Cooney
http://www.myspace.com/kooneyman
posted by kooneyman at 10:54 AM
3 Comments:
Nice Lucas...
Trust Comedy Central to blend humor with the issues of our time...
It’s cool how they can use Apple, a company bent on dominating the consumer technology world, as a metaphor for a country that insists on imposing its freedom (so to speak) at the end of a barrel of a gun....
That is if freedom is consumer products, free media, gun rights and fast food. You know all the really awesome stuff in life… Apart from free media, that really is awesome...
Andrew Blackman
I had actually found that Apple clip a while back, and stuck it on my blog. It's funny isn't it, how it's more than just a statement on the political and consumer culture that is America. I personally think that it is a statement about how us, as consumers of media and gadgetry, are behind these frivolous pursuits that push everything to ridiculous levels entirely.
It is the exact same mentalities of those star-chasers, who gaze with wondrous adoration at some random celeb. Applied to technology ... this technophilic behavior is maddening! Not to demean the blond that ranted on about how great your iPhone may by, but what use is it if you break it just by *touching* the damn thing. And trust me, that screen will be dead by the 3rd month the way Steve Jobs rubs it.
YuHan Chang
crimsonsabre.livejournal.com
Yuhan: interesting comment. But "not to demean the blond who ranted on"?? No idea who you're referring to (or which comments were made by them) but that phrase does sound kind of, um, demeaning. Cheers, Luke.
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