Fanboy. It’s simultaneously the geek equivalent of calling somebody a racist on the internet and a badge of pride, the ultimate declaration of one’s undying devotion to something. Are you a fanboy (or fangirl)?
Han Ziwen became the first iPad owner in mainland China today and was carried out of the Beijing Apple store on employees’ shoulders. He even made a t-shirt for the occasion: “I BUY IPAD NO 1″.
The Misconception: We prefer the things we own over the things we don’t because we made rational choices when we bought them. The Truth?
When you see one relatively clever Apple shirt, you can smile to yourself before moving on without purchasing it. But when you see 101 of them in one place? It makes you want to throw your MacBook out a window.
Honestly, this song is catchy as hell. The kid looks like a bit of a tool singing at the Apple Store on 5th Ave in NYC, but he isn’t the only vlogger to use the store as a recording studio.
Guys. Cool it. I’m sure the glass roof of the new NYC Apple Store will make giving Apple your money even more transcendent, but you can wait a couple months until it’s open. Seriously. [ifoAppleStore via Purns]
A guy named John has changed his first generation iPhone for a new Palm Pre. Nothing bad or weird about that. Until he took out a steel hammer:
Finally, February 6 is the date for the much-awaited movie about the Star Wars fanboys who break into Skywalker Ranch to torture George Lucas for doing the prequels. OK, it’s not about that. I wish.
