With the hype and hyperbole surrounding the start of tomorrow’s Macworld (DRM free iTunes, new Mac Mini’s, possible new product lines), the Onion hits it squarely on the head with this biting satire of the great Mac fetish.
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January 06, 2009 at 12:58 pm, said:
I love this piece – and to go after a product that is so wrought with fetishistic lust – brilliant. I often wonder why they haven’t made a black patent leather mac with a gag ball microphone so you could skype with the other gimps.
Myself, I have a couple o macs – and I shamefully buy in to their marketing hoopla for hoi polloi (I also have an iPhone 3G) – but the upside of admitting you have this addiction also is the upside of admitting you are addicted to pure Bolivian blow – it means you are a better class of addict, more dangerous as you probably have more resources to throw at your addiction – and damn anyone that gets in your way.
So, I feel like my Mac addiction puts me above – say – a Dell addict, or an ASUS junkie. I get in to all the red rope lounge parties and end up compromised and rode hard in the VIP lounge with my groovy media apps, widgets, and touch screen hypoallergenic little friends made with Eldritch techno-wizardy (okay, Intel chips – but still…) in sexy packaging, while those bottom feeders end up broken and dirty in an alleyway huddling over their internet explorer and playing solitaire. I win, and iLuvUMac. Now gimme more, Steve.
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January 06, 2009 at 2:40 pm, said:
I guess this means they got rid of mouse gestures?
