Hard Cider: "Holy Jihad
Batman!" - One PC User In Camouflage Nearly Gets The Taliban
Treatment At Steve Jobs Keynote
Thursday, January 10, 2002
What do you do if you want to sneak a Windows
laptop into the Steve Jobs Keynote - and live to tell about
it? You try to dress it up as an Apple PowerBook, that's what.
The portable computer in the picture above, is really a Toshiba
laptop with an Apple logo slapped onto it. Did the guy
think he would get away with this? That no one would notice
this Semi-Trailer masquerading as a Ferrari?
He was safe when he was surround only by the
Press. We are relatively well behaved group, and just treated
him with quiet disdain. However when the doors flew open and
the hoards of Mac fanatics came rumbling into the Keynote
hall, like a Roman crowd into the colosseum for a relaxing
day of watching Christians being torn apart by wild beasts,
this guy didn't have a chance. "Steve", "Steve",
"Steve" ... "Wait a minute! What kind of Apple
is that?" .... the crowd turned.
It reminded me of the scene in Zorba
The Greek. The one where the crowd chases and corners
the wanton women of the village to a forlorn field ......
and stone her to death. Luckily for this guy, it appears that
he was part of the 'Mac/Slash Party', who's members resemble
defensive linebackers. Like a Roman cohort, they formed a
protective ring around their beleaguered member, and moved
him out of harms way. The Macintosh impostor had, had a fright,
but had lived through it to carry the message to others -
entering Macworld with the wrong technology is like wandering
the Casbah
with money hanging out of your pocket ... just ain't prudent.
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