Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard – The Onion
I love the Onion! Nothing better than a joke newspaper writing awesome headlines that make me laugh at least once a week. Over the past few years, they have also gradually added video to their site and some of the videos they produce are also quite good!
Yesterday they released a fake news story in honor of the MacWorld expo that is happening this week. Excellent timing and a very well done joke news story about a fictitious new product by Apple. They do a great job of playing up the biases that many people have toward Apple’s innovations (i.e. everything they put out is better than everything else) and also touch on the fact that often “easy to use” and “practical” are two different things.
My favorite line(s):
“everything is just a few hundred clicks away”
“I’ll buy almost anything if it’s shiny and made by apple”
“I like sending an email that says ‘sent from a MacBook Wheel’ – that lets everyone know you have one”