Tim Cook Attends Grand Opening of Apple Store in Downtown Los Angeles

iJustine is perhaps the biggest apple shill in the universe

Had the chance to speak briefly to Tim while he was in Paris a few years ago. Very friendly and open guy!

Apple is mutating from a tech company to a company for fashion victims.

I hate to be a hater, but it’s an accurate characterization:

iSimp

The nearly 40 year old woman who acts like a 19 year girl. I wouldn’t doubt if the majority of her followers are teenage boys.

Apple is mutating from a tech company to a company for fashion victims.

It's always been like that. It was at it's worst when the iPod was really popular back in around 2004/05 with the dancing silhouette commercials. People were (and still are) easily influenced. I remember subways in Toronto would be filled with people with white headphones. You knew they had an ipod. It got so bad, people didn't really even know that alternatives existed (back then Cowon MP3 players were way better). Apple furthered this (very subtle) brainwashing via their evangelical marketing (thanks to Guy Kawasaki) and running with the term 'podcast', although not invented by them, this led people to believe that only apple devices could play internet radio streams.

There's been a loooooot of manipulation of the public by Apple over the years. Nothing illegal, but they've definitely had a hand in cultural influence.