SEPTEMBER 4, 2007, 6:39 PM
Warning: Joke Ahead
I’m worried about America. Everybody knows we have an energy deficit, a courtesy deficit and a fiscal deficit. But what I’m worried about is the humor deficit.
Last year, in one of my videos, I mocked Microsoft for its lack of creativity in adding new features to Windows Vista. Fully 40 of the new features were, by Microsoft’s own admission, copied from Apple’s Mac OS X.
So in my 100 percent sarcastic video, I attempted to “prove” that Microsoft did not copy from Apple. I displayed Apple’s and Microsoft’s versions of these features side-by-side, and pointed the small, pointless differences that “clearly” demonstrated no evidence of mimicry. Apple’s instant-search menu is in the upper-RIGHT corner of the screen, I said, but Microsoft’s is in the lower-LEFT—so Microsoft obviously is not really copying! Apple’s mini-apps are called “widgets,” but Microsoft’s are called “gadgets”— obviously not the same thing. And so on. Read more...
[Via Pogue's Posts]
[Disclaimer: A very funny and true post and has hardly anything to do with Apple/Microsoft.
]
Warning: Joke Ahead
I’m worried about America. Everybody knows we have an energy deficit, a courtesy deficit and a fiscal deficit. But what I’m worried about is the humor deficit.
Last year, in one of my videos, I mocked Microsoft for its lack of creativity in adding new features to Windows Vista. Fully 40 of the new features were, by Microsoft’s own admission, copied from Apple’s Mac OS X.
So in my 100 percent sarcastic video, I attempted to “prove” that Microsoft did not copy from Apple. I displayed Apple’s and Microsoft’s versions of these features side-by-side, and pointed the small, pointless differences that “clearly” demonstrated no evidence of mimicry. Apple’s instant-search menu is in the upper-RIGHT corner of the screen, I said, but Microsoft’s is in the lower-LEFT—so Microsoft obviously is not really copying! Apple’s mini-apps are called “widgets,” but Microsoft’s are called “gadgets”— obviously not the same thing. And so on. Read more...
[Via Pogue's Posts]
[Disclaimer: A very funny and true post and has hardly anything to do with Apple/Microsoft.
]
