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Simpsons Mock Apple

benlangdon said:
isn't called a ipod touch. not itouch.
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I still struggle to understand why, but when people ask whether I have an iTouch (as they call it) or an iPhone, and I respond an iPod, they seem to get confused. Perhaps someone can clarify for me as to why this is. It is, after all, an iPod, and it should be pretty obvious by the size of its display that it's a Touch... do they think it's a Nano or something? People are confused so easily these days.
 
NT1440 said:
Unless im mistaken, the simpsons isnt even available on itunes....is it?
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Coincidentally, a deal was apparently just made between Fox and Apple to bring the 20th season to the iTunes Store:

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/12/the-simpsonsapp.html

After watching the Nov. 30 episode of The Simpsons, we can say this: Jobs well done. As in, the Fox comedy sure roasted Apple and its CEO, Steve Jobs. The irreverent parody of the computer giant (in which Lisa runs up a huge bill from Apple — excuse us, Mapple — by downloading too many songs to her iPod — ahem, myPod) tweaks the company’s culture of cool and even offers up a few Jobs jabs (“How dare us question the boss we fired 10 years ago and then brought back?” says one employee). Funnier still, there were multiple Apple ads during commercial breaks. Does Apple have a self-effacing sense of humor, or was it just coincidence? Looks like the latter: The company didn’t know about the satire, and Simpsons exec producer Al Jean wasn’t aware of the commercials’ placement beforehand. “The show has a tradition of biting the hand that feeds us, and sometimes it goes up to the elbow,” says Jean, an admitted “Apple enthusiast.” Let’s hope the main Mac man enjoyed the parody, as a deal was recently cut to bring the current season of Simpsons episodes to iTunes. Cracks Jean: “If he wants to give me an upgrade on my laptop in exchange for no more future mockings, so be it.”
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Jean's quote about getting an upgrade is just typical, that guy annoys me.
 
I just watched it then and I think both are right...it's a 'myPod touch' with a....virtual clickwheel, proving that simpsons writers are apple fans, who may have also been obsessed with pre-touch virtual clickwheel theories. If you watch when Lisa shows them the Itchy and Scratchy clip she presses one of the corners and the clickwheel pops up into the top like a window going down into the dock etc.
 
lifeinhd said:
I still struggle to understand why, but when people ask whether I have an iTouch (as they call it) or an iPhone, and I respond an iPod, they seem to get confused. Perhaps someone can clarify for me as to why this is. It is, after all, an iPod, and it should be pretty obvious by the size of its display that it's a Touch... do they think it's a Nano or something? People are confused so easily these days.
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Maybe it's because the iPod Classic resembles the 5.5G iPod (Video) more then the iPod Touch does. When using short-form of the current line up, iPod generally refers to iPod Classic, Nano refers to iPod Nano, and iTouch refers to iPod Touch.
ipodclassic_silver_image5_20080909.jpg
 
iTouch only refers to iPod Touch when you have mental problems.

I will accept "Touch" but iTouch sounds like a porno spoofing Apple.

Besides, we never say iClassic, or iNano or iShuffle,

Drop the iPod or say the whole thing, stop with the iTouch bu!!*****.
 
lifeinhd said:
I still struggle to understand why, but when people ask whether I have an iTouch (as they call it) or an iPhone, and I respond an iPod, they seem to get confused. Perhaps someone can clarify for me as to why this is. It is, after all, an iPod, and it should be pretty obvious by the size of its display that it's a Touch... do they think it's a Nano or something? People are confused so easily these days.
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Reminds me of my dad. I needed new headphones for my touch, and he was looking at those horrible lanyard headphones they used to make for the iPod nano. I told him they were for the wrong model anyway, and he goes "I thought the touch screen was a nano?". Then a few weeks ago I was looking at cases and every single time he'd look at the iPod classic ones because he then thought THAT was the 'proper' name of the iPod touch. To add to that, just seconds after I told him (for what must have been the fifth time within several minutes) it was an iPod touch an employee asks if we need help, so my dad butts in and says we're looking at cases, the employee asks "what type of iPod?" and he just stares at me, having totally forgotten in the ten seconds since I told him.
To add to that, when I asked the employee about iPod touch cases she went to another employee asking if "there were any new iTouch accessories in stock". iTouch? Seriously? From someone that works at a store specialising in nothing but Macs and iPods?
 
Digital Skunk said:
iTouch only refers to iPod Touch when you have mental problems.

I will accept "Touch" but iTouch sounds like a porno spoofing Apple.

Besides, we never say iClassic, or iNano or iShuffle,

Drop the iPod or say the whole thing, stop with the iTouch bu!!*****.
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+1

People seem to think that every thing sold from apple is i(insert word fragment here)
 
A great clip. Watching the Simpsons has a great way of blasting me back to the past then you throw in the parody of the classic mac ad. I felt like I was a kid when my dad brought the first mac home.
 
Ivan P said:
Reminds me of my dad. I needed new headphones for my touch, and he was looking at those horrible lanyard headphones they used to make for the iPod nano. I told him they were for the wrong model anyway, and he goes "I thought the touch screen was a nano?". Then a few weeks ago I was looking at cases and every single time he'd look at the iPod classic ones because he then thought THAT was the 'proper' name of the iPod touch. To add to that, just seconds after I told him (for what must have been the fifth time within several minutes) it was an iPod touch an employee asks if we need help, so my dad butts in and says we're looking at cases, the employee asks "what type of iPod?" and he just stares at me, having totally forgotten in the ten seconds since I told him.
To add to that, when I asked the employee about iPod touch cases she went to another employee asking if "there were any new iTouch accessories in stock". iTouch? Seriously? From someone that works at a store specialising in nothing but Macs and iPods?
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Hm. Awell, I'm thinking of trading in my "iTouch" for an "i3G" anyways.
 
phannon666 said:
Fixed that for you. Every new episode I've caught over the last few years has been nothing but unfunny, unoriginal, recycled crap until they decided to mock apple and its smug CEO and annoying cult-like fans and managed to hit the nail on the head.
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fixed that for you. I think the simpsons struck a nerve with a few apple loyalists.
 
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