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Orrex

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9. The commercial is nauseatingly overpraised as being The Best Commercial Ever!

Reply to Trust Buster (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 10:03 AM

Sep 2017

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT THEY ONLY AIRED IT ONCE?!?!? ONCE!!!!!!1!!

Yes, Jobs did a great job of appropriating innovation and rebranding it as Apple, and he did a spectacular job of making people overlook his grotesque personal shortcomings and commercial failures.

But none of that changes the fact that his company has become exactly the company that his company so famously mocked In The Sacred Commercial.

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Not a fanboy or hater, but am I the only one who sees the irony? [View all] jberryhill Sep 2017 OP

I appreciate Jobs' contribution in the technological field. He was a brilliant man. Trust Buster Sep 2017 #1

Replicating Apple's 1984 Commercial For Their Own Launch Was Less Than Brilliant jberryhill Sep 2017 #2

I think it is silly and petty to fixate on a commercial ignoring Jobs' contributions. Trust Buster Sep 2017 #3

What a bizarre comment jberryhill Sep 2017 #4

The commercial is nauseatingly overpraised as being The Best Commercial Ever! Orrex Sep 2017 #9

I disagree. Genius always comes with personal shortcomings. And, as for what Apple has become, Trust Buster Sep 2017 #10

Nonsense. So-called genius too often gets a pass because people too often fetishize "genius" Orrex Sep 2017 #11

You clearly reject the nature of a world economy. No doubt we differ on Aipac. Trust Buster Sep 2017 #12

No, we differ on your desperation to change the subject Orrex Sep 2017 #13

Yes I am sure that was on purpose marylandblue Sep 2017 #5

Well, if they want to extend the Orwell analogy, it's Animal Farm Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2017 #6

The depth of Apple's contributions to the computing world.. Kleveland Sep 2017 #7

for me, I don't hate apple Mosby Sep 2017 #8

The greed of Apple is remarkable ... GeorgeGist Sep 2017 #14