Apple = Singapore
Steve Jobs = Lee Kwan Yue
Sleek shiny interface = neat tidy country
Tethered product-line = nepotism and corporatism
Attractive to shallow trendoids = attractive to shallow libertarians
Good for graphics applications = good for graphics workers
Small market share = little red dot
Real business is elsewhere = real world is elsewhere
Discuss.
E@L
New Music: How Far From Home Do You Want To Go
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More space-y electronica from me, for you. Not just you, mind you. For
anyone! But also, you. Enjoy. (PS: This one rewards headphones) — JS
51 minutes ago
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iPod Store, (place you go to buy things you don't really need and then feel used afterwards) - Orchard Towers.
Expensive add-ons = expensive everything
Limited choice of models = PAP
No radio on iPod = no journalists prepared to criticize Singapore
Stolen technology from best of Creative Technologies = stolen politico-economic from worst of Milton Friedman
Freedom to take whatever we give you = PAP
Bono used in advertisements = Bono refuses to come to Singapore
Held captive to Apple technology = longest-serving political prisoner EVER (in modern times) was in Singapore
Cannot tinker with operating system = PAP
etc etc...
buys Apple products, then gripes about them = E@L
heh
- not an apple user, not even an ipod (gasp!)
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