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Happy April Fools' Day 2017: Siri, iFixit Micro Tech Toolkit, AirRings, Ms. Pac-Man Maps, and More

now i see it said:
The new 2017 Mac Mini will have 4 cores, a pop off top, & all components will be easy to upgrade with standard parts.
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Yes sure... and it will only sells at $ 199,- :rolleyes:
[doublepost=1491072646][/doublepost]Apple steps out of the computer business.... oh wait, is that a... or real... oh, never mind
 
dannys1 said:
Call me "not fun at parties" or whatever boring cliched phrase you want use but I find the yearly attempt by corporations to be funny on April fools dull and annoying.

Look at this "hilarious" product/service Google is pretending to release on April 1st HAHAHAHA. Great, now get back to mining our personal data.
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The UK usually has some really good, and mostly believable, pranks though. Some years ago they had reported whales going up the Thames, complete with 'live BBC on-the-scene coverage', and thousands of Londoners flocking to the river to witness this 'spectacular' and 'unprecedented' event, only to find nothing of the sort there of course.

Then there was the cleverly executed 1957 Ticino spaghetti 'harvest', to name a few.
 
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macs4nw said:
The UK usually has some really good, and mostly believable, pranks though. Some years ago they had reported whales going up the Thames, complete with 'live BBC on-the-scene coverage', and thousands of Londoners flocking to the river to witness this 'spectacular' and 'unprecedented' event, only to find nothing of the sort there of course.
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Not even Nessy? Lol
 
redheeler said:
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Looks like MacRumors is getting in on the fun as well, Apple would never allow their Mac product line to deteriorate like this! :D

http://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ 5400 RPM hard drive with no SSD in a $1.5K Mac, that is a good one indeed!

Oh, wait...
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:eek::eek::confused::(:(:mad: ---> Ah well we still have emojis.

I've lost track of how old our current iMac is. I think it's only 3. I hope it holds out until the laxative starts working on that pipeline of Tim's. My husband had wanted to get a Mac Pro when we finally had the money to spare, but the trash can ended up being not quite what he had in mind. We thought it would be gone by now. Sigh. Wow.
 
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GrumpyMom said:
:eek::eek::confused::(:(:mad: ---> Ah well we still have emojis.

I've lost track of how old our current iMac is. I think it's only 3. I hope it holds out until the laxative starts working on that pipeline of Tim's. My husband had wanted to get a Mac Pro when we finally had the money to spare, but the trash can ended up being not quite what he had in mind. We thought it would be gone by now. Sigh. Wow.
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I feel you. Tim should really be ashamed. Even if he is convinced that iPads are the future, he should have invest in the Macs as well up until the point iPads would be a good alternative. At the moment iPads can't do what Macs can do and the ancient Mac line can't do what the competition is able to do for years. Better eco? The eco is behind and working as a trap :(
 
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I hope more people recognize that Apple had three (not two) co-founders, and that Ronald Wayne is officially one of the three co-founders of Apple. Yeah, Wayne did not contribute anywhere as much as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, and he left the company shortly after it was founded, but he was officially one of the three co-founders.
 
The funniest thing about April Fool's Day is the inane sense of humor that comes from the over-paid and under-talented in marketing companies and other Hollywood spinoffs all over the place. They are the fools, showing themselves up for what they are.
 
Am I the only one that likes the 'AirRings' idea?
Doctor Q said:
You just have to be in the right country.
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China would... Their government seems to love taking the fun out of life for its people. Almost like... Nevermind...
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dantroline said:
The funniest thing about April Fool's Day is the inane sense of humor that comes from the over-paid and under-talented in marketing companies and other Hollywood spinoffs all over the place. They are the fools, showing themselves up for what they are.
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Some good ones have been taken for real products, and some real products released on or around this day were taken as jokes.

It hits both ways?

But, yeah, some 'jokes' are really hideous, disastrous, horrible...
 
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dannys1 said:
Call me "not fun at parties" or whatever boring cliched phrase you want use but I find the yearly attempt by corporations to be funny on April fools dull and annoying.
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You're so boring you bore the people who write boring cliche phrases into writing one. You must not be fun at parties.
 
I'm always of the mind that many Americans don't quite "get" what an April fool's prank is supposed to be. It's supposed to be VERY believable, something which could occur in day to day life and become accepted without a second thought, with ONLY the revelation of "APRIL FOOLS!!" shattering the previously accepted belief in the thing. These contrived, amateurish and juvenile attempts on the behalf of these big corporations are... just stupid... and why do they even bother?

Leo Laporte @ TWiT said, yesterday (not verbatim, but this is the gist of his sentiment): "I kinda worry about the focus on the product development of companies who clearly spend MONTHS pre-planning these 'pranks' - I worry that they're spending SO much effort and energy on planning these pranks, which is time which they may be better served to put into improving THEIR PRODUCTS."

Erm YUP, why WOULD you invest so much time and energy on such trite and childish, transparent guff!
 
6foot5foot said:
I'm always of the mind that many Americans don't quite "get" what an April fool's prank is supposed to be. It's supposed to be VERY believable, something which could occur in day to day life and become accepted without a second thought, with ONLY the revelation of "APRIL FOOLS!!" shattering the previously accepted belief in the thing. These contrived, amateurish and juvenile attempts on the behalf of these big corporations are... just stupid... and why do they even bother?
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I have to agree there. One site added a script that made all the images on the page spin. That's not an April fool; it's just an April annoyance.
 
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Nermal said:
I have to agree there. One site added a script that made all the images on the page spin. That's not an April fool; it's just an April annoyance.
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Just think - some April fool got paid to make that stupidity happen. This modern world... sheesh... overpaid and nothing to do.
 
6foot5foot said:
I'm always of the mind that many Americans don't quite "get" what an April fool's prank is supposed to be. It's supposed to be VERY believable, something which could occur in day to day life and become accepted without a second thought, with ONLY the revelation of "APRIL FOOLS!!" shattering the previously accepted belief in the thing. These contrived, amateurish and juvenile attempts on the behalf of these big corporations are... just stupid... and why do they even bother?

Leo Laporte @ TWiT said, yesterday (not verbatim, but this is the gist of his sentiment): "I kinda worry about the focus on the product development of companies who clearly spend MONTHS pre-planning these 'pranks' - I worry that they're spending SO much effort and energy on planning these pranks, which is time which they may be better served to put into improving THEIR PRODUCTS."

Erm YUP, why WOULD you invest so much time and energy on such trite and childish, transparent guff!
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Kind of feels like too much time and effort is being spent worrying by trying to over-analyze it all and come up with some sort of grandiose-like takeaways that are supposed to mean something.
 
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EVERY day is fool's day at Google, it's just that, once a year, one of those days just happens to coincide with April the 1st...
 
Here are 60 pranks I collected from here and other sites. Some were excellent and some were less amusing. My personal winners: #34 and #52.
  1. AirRings
  2. Alamo Vacation-Planning Fleet
  3. Amazon Alexa
  4. Animal Whispering Police Unit
  5. Anti-Gravity TV Mount
  6. Beano going emoji
  7. Bicycle Horn of Gondor
  8. Cheetos Spray Tan
  9. Coca-Cola Helium
  10. Concrete Over-Ear Headphones
  11. Contactless ticket system
  12. Domino's reinvents the letterbox
  13. Emoji weather maps
  14. Google Gnome
  15. Google Wind
  16. Home Cremation
  17. Honda emoji plates
  18. Honda H-Swipe
  19. Honda Horn Emojis
  20. Hot Pocket Sleeping Bag
  21. Hot tub for birds
  22. iFixit Micro Tech Toolkit (too small for your fingers!)
  23. Jim Beans
  24. KFC: The Bucket
  25. Lexus LC: Lane Valet
  26. Meh-Mite
  27. Netflix Live (narrations on not-very-thrilling subjects)
  28. Northern tusked porpoise
  29. Penguin Studies MSc
  30. Petco DooDoo Drone
  31. Piste of the Seas
  32. Prosecco Polish
  33. Prysm Avatar
  34. Quilted Northern uSit
  35. Rally Beard Sauce
  36. reddit PLACE
  37. Request Rides Autonomously
  38. Roku SnackSuggest
  39. Seahorse Racing
  40. Second chalk figure discovered
  41. Shazam on VHS
  42. Siri silly answers
  43. Skin & Tonic - The Gin Sauna
  44. SwearJar
  45. Swim Desk
  46. T-Mobile ONEsie
  47. Tentacuddle Wrap
  48. The Companion Collection
  49. The Harambed
  50. TRIWA DIY watch
  51. Twitter's greatest moments at the Royal Albert Hall
  52. USB-Speed of Light
  53. Virgin Australia canine crew members
  54. We Are Hu
  55. Westworld Full-Body Snake Temporary Tattoo
  56. Where's Barb?
  57. Whopper Toothpaste
  58. YASS Cat-apult
  59. Yo Stories
  60. Zappos In Secure Box
 
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I like the new PC April fools. You let them know before hand that it's a joke. I find that amusing on a rumors forum.
 
Honestly, given some of the crazy "smart [thing]" crap that has been announced at trade shows over the past couple of years, I'd be willing to believe that Google Gnome was a real product. The internet-connected toothbrush or smart cup are far sillier and less practical.

Also, as silly as the T-Mobile one is, the "complete and utter crap" line had me laughing.
 
dannys1 said:
Call me "not fun at parties" or whatever boring cliched phrase you want use but I find the yearly attempt by corporations to be funny on April fools dull and annoying.

Look at this "hilarious" product/service Google is pretending to release on April 1st HAHAHAHA. Great, now get back to mining our personal data.
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Completely agree. Whatever humor value this stuff may have to other programmers (etc.), none of this should be consumer facing.
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macs4nw said:
The UK usually has some really good, and mostly believable, pranks though. Some years ago they had reported whales going up the Thames, complete with 'live BBC on-the-scene coverage', and thousands of Londoners flocking to the river to witness this 'spectacular' and 'unprecedented' event, only to find nothing of the sort there of course.

Then there was the cleverly executed 1957 Ticino spaghetti 'harvest', to name a few.
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I agree with this. The BBC April Fools Day jokes are on another level.
 
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