Comments on: Soapbox: WoW Stats, Netflix and Media Center, and Apple http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/07/09/my-soapbox-wow-stats-media-center-and-apple/ The Musings of Paul Ellis Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul’s Soapbox: WoW Stats, Netflix and Media Center, and Apple | TechConsumer.com http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/07/09/my-soapbox-wow-stats-media-center-and-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1095 Paul’s Soapbox: WoW Stats, Netflix and Media Center, and Apple | TechConsumer.com Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:30:17 +0000 http://pseudosavant.com/blog/?p=154#comment-1095 [...] This article is cross-posted at PseudoSavant. Category: Tech Stories You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. [...] [...] This article is cross-posted at PseudoSavant. Category: Tech Stories You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. [...]

]]> By: Paul Ellis http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/07/09/my-soapbox-wow-stats-media-center-and-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Paul Ellis Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:13:30 +0000 http://pseudosavant.com/blog/?p=154#comment-670 During Steve Jobs' announcement of the iPhone 3G, he actually said something like the first iPhone was amazing, and we were the first ones to make a phone that is even better. If you check out their <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/" rel="nofollow">OS X page</a> right now you'll notice that they are also using the tag line "With 300+ new features, Leopard is the most impressive Mac OS X version yet. Watch the guided tour." I think they used the wrong adjective in their advertising <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs" rel="nofollow">mad lib</a>. Impressive should have read buggiest. During Steve Jobs’ announcement of the iPhone 3G, he actually said something like the first iPhone was amazing, and we were the first ones to make a phone that is even better.

If you check out their OS X page right now you’ll notice that they are also using the tag line “With 300+ new features, Leopard is the most impressive Mac OS X version yet. Watch the guided tour.” I think they used the wrong adjective in their advertising mad lib. Impressive should have read buggiest.

]]> By: Bob Caswell http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/07/09/my-soapbox-wow-stats-media-center-and-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-669 Bob Caswell Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:33:09 +0000 http://pseudosavant.com/blog/?p=154#comment-669 Lol about Apple marketing... I guess "fastest" is all they can go with considering the alternative of "more shiny / glossy / artsy / slick / sci-fi than before!" Lol about Apple marketing… I guess “fastest” is all they can go with considering the alternative of “more shiny / glossy / artsy / slick / sci-fi than before!”

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