1984
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40 Years Ago, Apple Got Our Current Tech Dystopia Dead Wrong
We are all the sledgehammer, Apple does like to tell its fans. We are all disruptors hurtling toward one great screen, breaking the iron-fisted hold that other tech firms want to impose on us. The hellscape dystopia world of Apple’s famed “1984” commercial modeled after George Orwell’s seminal dystopia 1984 never really came to pass.…
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Benedict Cumberbatch Presents The Apple Toilet On SNL
Apple haters rejoice! SNL and Dr. Strange himself took Apple’s history of over-the-top marketing of (occasionally underwhelming) iterative design to task and yeah, it was actually funny.
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George Orwell’s Estate Is Issuing Copyright Takedowns For The Number ‘1984’
George Orwell’s estate is watching you — at least if you try and use the number ‘1984’. In an ironic turn of events, the Orwell estate has recently issued a copyright takedown to prevent the use of the four digits without permission, reports Torrent Freak.
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Apple’s Marketing Guru: The 1984 Ad Was More Successful Than Apple Itself
In 1984, Apple launched an ad campaign based on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, which depicted IBM users as mindless followers and Mac users as visionaries and rebels. Now, the man behind it, Regis McKenna, has explained that he think it was more successful than the product it attempted to sell.