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tallest skil said: If so, explain, because the USA isn't a communist nation, nor is it socialist.

Read the communist manifesto, compare its stated goals to the changes to the US in the last 100 years, realize what I’m talking about. This isn’t the thread for it.

Read it. Not applicable.

Mike Wuerthele said:

ireland said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

As a reminder, this is not the place for your political manifesto. Err on the side of caution, and if you even think you're toeing up to the line, maybe read our commenting guidelines linked at the bottom of every page.

So why mention her religion?

What does her religion have anything to do with a political manifesto? Yet, somehow, here we are.

This conversation is over.

Mike, sorry but you thought it was relevant enough to cover in the story, why can't someone else comment on the fact that you mentioned it? You're being overly sensitive about "politicizing" things. 

Eric_WVGG said:

Apple should have gotten sued like mad over the Think Different campaign.

It would be illegal for a company to make commercials featuring Tom Cruise without first reaching an agreement with him. It's illegal to use the likenesses of Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe without reaching an agreement with their estates. Someone tried to cop on the Beastie Boys recently and the surviving members went nuts. 

Doesn't matter if they're "paying tribute" — featuring John Lennon and Martin Luther King in an advertisement is weird and creepy. The campaign confirmed many anti-Apple biases of the company being conceited and hollow. Twenty years later, they're still combatting that image.

That said… the only truly great ad they've made in years was the Spike Jones HomePod bit.

Well, that's the weirdest take on that ad campaign that I've seen.

Are you certain that Apple did not receive permission from the estates to use the likenesses? Chiat-Day was a prominent agency that had an effective legal team that would not have put themselves at legal risk just for the use of a photo.

And no, Apple was not "confirmed" by that campaign as being conceited and hollow. Quite the contrary, it was award-winning and memorable. And gave Apple a huge public boost as good advertising is supposed to do. 

And all those people featured matched the overriding theme of honoring the "Crazy Ones". Most were dead. And in my memory, nobody found the use of the images weird or creepy. The photo choices themselves were brilliant, and the art direction as well.

danvm said:

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/microsoft-surface-beats-ipad-j-d-power/

The PC market is very hard, and it's saturated.  Even Apple, that have been there for +30 years, still far behind HP, Dell and Lenovo.  I don't think it has to do with reliability or customer support.  

Ahh...JD Power. The first name in mystical rather than statistical methodology and rankings.

Soli said:

If he said he didn't do it, then I believe him. If you asked him 3 times and he said he's innocent then he must be innocent by the laws of the current reality.

Was he extremely strong and powerful in his denial today?