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As entertaining as the game was, the best action in yesterday’s Super Bowl was off the field.
In the second quarter, Motorola ran a one minute ad which parodied Ridley Scott’s bold, apocalyptic 1984 Apple ad.
In Scott’s ad, Apple seemed to be implying that the world of personal computing, circa the actual year 1984, was dominated by a Big Brother-like power (IBM, anyone?) more reminiscent of Orwell’s fictional 1984.
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The first thing that came to mind on seeing pictures of Apple boss Steve Jobs with his new iPad device this morning was Trigger Happy TV, the British skit show whose signature sketch involved the star taking hysterically loud phone calls at inappropriate times on a three-foot telephone.
“Hello?” he’d suddenly shout in a full cinema, brandishing the prop. “No, I’m at a movie. It’s rubbish.”
Let’s not kid ourselves. The iPad is a laptop computer that doesn’t fold. But its appeal – or potential – lies in the content you’ll be able to access from it at a touch, once you hand over your $560 for the basic model when it ships worldwide two months from now.
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B says:
T.Chong says Moron. They had these in the Stargate Atlantis/Universe TV series aswell. Aswell as every Star Trek Show ever invented. Why does everyone think that movie Avatar is so great? All James did was rip-off work from everyone else and mash it together and call it his movie. I… Read more »
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Paul says:
rofl mac, I have to say im an unadulterated anti-mac =P Although some of the latest devices im very impressed with, I just can’t move past either my memory of giving mac tech support for an ISP for very very old macs, or working with G3’s at Optus and having… Read more »
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