Has Jonathan Ive gone too far this time?

My name is Jobs. Steve Jobs.

Our hero Fake Steve Jobs doesn’t fail us

This is some trade magazine in the UK. To answer their question: It’s actually not pointless. Because once you’ve upgraded from XP and lived with this POS (Painful Operating System) for a while, you’ll be begging for a Mac. Truth is, everyone at Apple loves Vista. It’s the best marketing tool we’ve ever had. Much love, Monkey Boy. And good love with that Yahoo merger. Great move. Really. Couldn’t be happier for you.

Fake Steve rocks. Hard.

There’s a Reason There’s a Cult of Mac

I’ve been using Apple Macs for a few years now. I initially switched over to them because I was impressed by the quality of the machines and I wanted to start using a Unix-like OS on my primary development machine. I had always been a bit amused by the cult-like following that the Mac has (the first machine I ever bought was an Amiga 500 and for years I used to lament the fact that the Amiga never really caught on even though I felt it superior to the Apple Mac). However, once I had a Mac, I found that the quality of the hardware was just one piece of the package – Apple seems to be one of the few companies that can incorporate quality into so many areas of its business. For example, you only have to go into an Apple store to immediately notice the qualitative difference compared to any other large computer retail chain. Just recently, Apple’s fixation on quality was spelled out again for me.

Go and read the rest at the link above…

At Gadzooki

A tale of two worlds:

The guy who woke up, opened the Apple website (a cult member no less):

“I knew it! I knew it! It was worth the wait. (motions to do the macarena geeky dance). Where’s my plastic? Oh there you are! Come here you… come here you… aahhhh…. let’s go to the apple store you and I. (winks at his card, and hippity-hops out the door). From a distance, he shouts ‘I LOVE YOU STEVE JOBS!’ “.

Now the guy who woke up, opened the Apple website (a high ranking cult member, an early adopter definitely):”Noooooooo!!! Why did you do it! I trusted you… (and in an eeny meeny voice) I loved you! (squeeky whimper). Whyyyyy!!!

And forget the weekly fatwa:

Here’s something I know from experience: Dis Apple or Steve Jobs publicly, even in a mild way, and the Apple Cultists descend on you like the zombies in Dawn of the Dead. Or maybe the flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz. You get the picture. Nail Apple in a public forum, and you can depend on your in box filling with nasty-grams from dot-mac addresses.

This dude got an unopened Apple //c on ebay and documents his unboxing experience. Sweet.

And lastly some photos documenting What Happens in Cupertino, Stays in Cupertino