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> Apple never staked a claim to some fuzzy moral high ground. What? Have you forgotten "1984" and "Think Different"?

by leoc 17y ago

cabalamat 17y ago
If I was Google I'd do a parody of the 1984 ad featuring Apple as the bad guy. -- "We have created for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each iPhone user may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing applications."
- glhaynes 17y ago
  And the majority of your userbase wouldn't understand that it's satire because they would love to be set free from the contradictory, confusing, often-harmful experience on other platforms.
- crowsfan85 17y ago
  > 1984 ad featuring Apple as the bad guy? See Simpsons S20:Ep7. http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZGIn9bpALo http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZGIn9bpALo
  - cabalamat 17y ago
    LOL -- thanks for that link
ellyagg 17y ago
Please. Those campaigns weren't self-serious morality stories, they were about anti-conformity. Companies establishing a personality is branding. Companies asserting that whatever they do must not be evil because, hey, that's our motto, is arrogance. Google has set itself up to be right by default in every action. If I dispute their actions, I just might be evil. After all, we know they aren't. As a matter of fact, I consider it somewhat evil that they don't have easy (or in some cases any) live support for most of their products. But, hey, the services are free, right? Google couldn't be getting any strategic or first order value from my using gmail, could they? If I knew someone personally who told me all the time that they refused to do anything or believe anything immoral and then I had to carry on a discussion about politics with that person, it wouldn't be very pleasant. Every public debate where Google's involved, and that's all of them now, is like debating that guy.

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> Apple never staked a claim to some fuzzy moral high ground. What? Have you forgotten "1984" and "Think Different"?

by leoc 17y ago

> Apple never staked a claim to some fuzzy moral high ground. What? Have you forgotten "1984" and "Think Different"?

cabalamat 17y ago
If I was Google I'd do a parody of the 1984 ad featuring Apple as the bad guy. -- "We have created for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each iPhone user may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing applications."
- glhaynes 17y ago
  And the majority of your userbase wouldn't understand that it's satire because they would love to be set free from the contradictory, confusing, often-harmful experience on other platforms.
- crowsfan85 17y ago
  > 1984 ad featuring Apple as the bad guy? See Simpsons S20:Ep7. http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZGIn9bpALo http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZGIn9bpALo
  - cabalamat 17y ago
    LOL -- thanks for that link
ellyagg 17y ago
Please. Those campaigns weren't self-serious morality stories, they were about anti-conformity. Companies establishing a personality is branding. Companies asserting that whatever they do must not be evil because, hey, that's our motto, is arrogance. Google has set itself up to be right by default in every action. If I dispute their actions, I just might be evil. After all, we know they aren't. As a matter of fact, I consider it somewhat evil that they don't have easy (or in some cases any) live support for most of their products. But, hey, the services are free, right? Google couldn't be getting any strategic or first order value from my using gmail, could they? If I knew someone personally who told me all the time that they refused to do anything or believe anything immoral and then I had to carry on a discussion about politics with that person, it wouldn't be very pleasant. Every public debate where Google's involved, and that's all of them now, is like debating that guy.