Happy April Fools' Day 2015: HiRise Toast, Pets Unleashed and More

[2457282]

I don't get why companies spend shareholder dollars on this stuff. Let's stay focused on quality, innovation, and shareholder return. This stuff supports none of this in my opinion.

Still.... whatever. I guess I survive through all this tom-foolery for one day.

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yes - you are the only one.

No, I kinda agree.

 

[Joe Rossignol]

I don't get why companies spend shareholder dollars on this stuff…

Marketing.

"founded on this day in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne."

Added in Ronald Wayne.

 

[bean dip]

I can't figure out if the amazon dash button is a fools joke or not.

 

[Amplelink]

Ha ha, Apple again beat all the others. Their site announces a watch for 10.000 bucks.

Ha, ok, I admit it. I laughed. Good one!

 

[flat five]

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SketchUp introduces Adventure Mode

 

[Rogifan]

Unfortunately this Amazon dash button isn't a joke.

http://arstechnica.com/information-...ou-to-place-product-buttons-around-your-home/

Just what the world needs....branded plastic buttons all over people's homes. I'm sure the conglomerates love this. Shopping experience driven by brand loyalty with no price comparisons. Is this really what the world has come to - branded buttons you push every time you run out of something?

 

[yaxomoxay]

Not colonies, states.

Yeah, it makes me mad when Europeans don't understand what is going on here in the West Indies.

 

[expectdelay]

ThinkGeek steam box

pretty amusing

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/iljn/?pfm=HP_FeaturedProducts_4_iljn

 

[yaxomoxay]

I don't get why companies spend shareholder dollars on this stuff. Let's stay focused on quality, innovation, and shareholder return. This stuff supports none of this in my opinion.

It supports marketing, makes the company look "fun" and "enjoyable". Plus, if the prank/joke is decent, the company's name/logo will be reported on thousands of websites.

 

[DanTheAppleMan]

iFaxit would be genuinely useful!

 

[Edsel]

The "Selfie Shoe" would have been wildly popular in Massachusetts. Two years ago a Massachusetts court concluded that up-skirt photos and videos were not illegal in Massachusetts. The state legislature quickly amended their criminal statutes.

 

[bbeagle]

I don't get why companies spend shareholder dollars on this stuff. Let's stay focused on quality, innovation, and shareholder return. This stuff supports none of this in my opinion.

It does to me.

It's free advertising for said companies. And it makes companies appear more human and real. For example, Apple doesn't ever seem to do it. It makes Apple appear more stodgy or impersonal.

Google does it, and seems like more of a fun company.

This matters when people choose products to buy. The 'fun' company or the 'just-business' company. Of course, the products it sells makes a difference too. I don't mind Wal-Mart with an ad, but a company like Tylenol - I don't want them goofing off - I would less trust their medicine.

 

[G4DP]

Grumpy posters on MacRumors are becoming such killjoys when it comes to April Fools' Day.

Lighten up.

No, it's just they are getting more pathetic every year.

 

[Intelligent]

Am i the only one who feels april fools was funny in my teenage years, now its just stupid

Im in my teens, and I already think it's stupid .

 

[rbrian]

Google maps lets you play pacman on a real map! Awesome!

 

[Daalseth]

Interesting Fun Fact

Did you know that the word gullible is not in the dictionary?

 

[tardegrade]

HiRise Toast needs to go on KickStarter because it's awesome!

 

[warfed]

New cloud bathroom awareness system oneToilet

 

[mj1108]

It supports marketing, makes the company look "fun" and "enjoyable". Plus, if the prank/joke is decent, the company's name/logo will be reported on thousands of websites.

Plus with all the crap that is out there the other 364 days of the year, it's nice to have 1 day when everyone can just lighten up and have a little fun.

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

This is a "post to thank"??....

Anyway, has Apple ever actually done an april fools prank before?

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Now this is a demand!!!

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Blizzard posted a few things, but it only seems to be up on their European website so far:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apri...-Real-Space-Ship-for-StarCraft-2-477309.shtml

Also, the CERN has discovered The Force:
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researchers-confirm-existence-force

 

[SwiftLives]

Disappointed MacRumors didn't do anything this year.

Grumble...

 

[bobob]

Am i the only one who feels april fools was funny in my teenage years, now its just stupid

In general - - yes.

...but that iFixIt Apple Watch teardown was extremely well done!

 

[JPSaltzman]

Over at http://www.macintouch.com, readers there have been debating the use and abuse of Neue Helvetica as Apple's system font, most complaining about its lack of legibility in small screen sizes and light weights; how it is designed for retina displays using only Yosemite, etc.

So today's http://www.macintouch.com web page replaces your usual browser typeface of choice with … Neue Helvetica, just to drive a point home about legibility and readability.

 

[iapplelove]

lol the jokes get more lame every year