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
Can you spell your name?
-
Just had one of those mad things where a company calls me and then asks me
to confirm how I spell my name. You called me! Why do I need to confirm
anything...
2 hours ago
Posts
3 comments:
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!)
Post a Comment