Posts tagged Apple
iPhone Loving (Video)
0In honor of next week’s iPhone 4 launch by Apple, I thought that I would comb through YouTube and see what sort of iPhone loving videos have been posted before. What I found did not disappoint in the least! As I suspected, people sure do love their iPhones – enough to make hundreds of videos expressing such for the world to see!
I usually feature comedy on Saturdays. In the past, I have featured jokes, comics, cartoons, and news on the weekends. Sometimes I include comics, stories, games, and photos. By far, though, humor and especially videos with Information Technology (IT) themes have been the most popular. So I have gone back to this endless well of laughs! I simply cannot get enough of comedy videos!
For this week, I have picked this video to share with you as follow-up. It is called “iPhone Love”… It is by invisibleSHIELD and it just plain funny!
The most humorous part of all of this is that it is all so true. Some of the jokes hit a bit close to home!
I hope that I gave you a chuckle to make your weekend a little brighter. I will be back Monday with more serious topics!
What did you think of the video? Funny? Do you know of any other similar movies or clips? Please share.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for June 19, 2010.
Video Credit: invisibleSHIELD
Video: The End of the “I’m a Mac” Ad Campaign
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Anyone involved in Information Technology during the past five years is aware of the famous Apple “I’m a Mac…I’m a PC” TV Ad campaign. Besides being simply hysterical, it also is credited with creating the greatest wave of Apple’s market share growth in history. Unfortunately, Apple has decided to end this run of 30 second comedy spots. They have even pulled all of them off of their website. Lucky for us that fans of the series have archived them all on YouTube!
I usually feature comedy on Saturdays. In the past, I have featured jokes, comics, cartoons, and news on the weekends. Sometimes I include comics, stories, games, and photos. By far, though, videos with Information Technology (IT) themes have been the most popular. So I have gone back to this endless well!
For this week, I have picked this video to share with you as follow-up. It is called “Buy a Mac”… It is by Apple Computers and compiled by nahu090yt. It is a seven minute compilation of the first 15 classic commercials from this campaign. I am sure that with a little YouTube searching, you could easily find the entire series of commercials.
I hope that I gave you a good chuckle to make your weekend a little more meaningful. I will be back Monday with more serious IT topics!
I will miss this ad campaign.
What did you think of the video? Did you like it? Do you know of any other similar movies or clips? Please share.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for May 29, 2010.
video credits: nahu090yt and Apple Computer
image credit: The Revolver and Apple Computer
News Commentary: Is Blu-Ray Dying?
1It is a well publicized fact that Apple’s lack of support for Adobe Flash on its mobile web devices, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, has had the chilling effect of beginning the end for this technology. Where once the whole web thought that Flash was here to stay, today rarely is a new site opened that relies on it. Even where webmasters chose to employ Flash, they almost always provide a Flash-free site in order to have access to those millions of lucrative Apple customers. I wonder though, if Flash was not Apple’s first recent technology sniper job, or really its second.
On Mondays I offer comments on some
of the most interesting information technology stories that I have found on the web that week. Please feel free to join in the discussion or suggest other stories.
Today’s comments follow the most recent reading of a story describing how Apple is refusing to integrate Blu-Ray disc support into its operating systems and computers. Give it a read below.
Network World – Steve Jobs email hints at no upcoming Blu-Ray support on the Mac By Yoni Heisler
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Just as it did to the serial port, floppy disc drive, external monitor, and most recently Flash, it sure does look, by now, that Apple has it out for Blu-Ray. There are certainly no lack of third party vendors willing to install them into Apple machines. Also, the guts of a Mac today are really nothing more than a top-of-the-line PC so there is no hardware incompatibility. The reality is just the Apple chooses not to support Blu-Ray at all.
What could possibly be their reasons?
I am sure that I don’t know exactly why Apple is not supporting Blu-Ray, but I sure wish that they would. Frankly, I think that it is a bit embarrassing today that you can easily spend $3000 on a Mac Book Pro, but still don’t and can’t get the latest industry standard for movie watching. Seems a bit crazy to me. For a platform that aims to be a media center and content generation device out of the box, it looks like a strange oversight.
What do you think about this topic? Do you agree or disagree with me? Do you have a recommended news story for next week? Please share your ideas below.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 27, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credit: Blu Ray Discs