Star Apple's Iconic 1984 Commercial Turns 25
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Jan 2009 21:27 UTC
Apple This week, 25 years ago, a company aired an advertisement that would cement that company's name into the minds of many. It was an advertisement about individuality versus conformism, about light versus dark, about new versus established. It was the most expensive advertisement of its time, and yet, it didn't even show the product it was trying to sell. After the ad was over, all we knew was that something called "Macintosh" was going to show us how 1984 wouldn't be like 1984.
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Conformity
by JMcCarthy on Sat 24th Jan 2009 01:53 UTC
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2005-08-12

For the anti-conformist image they conjure they sure are conformist. You can't get much more conformity than you can with a Mac. ;)

Not that conformity is necessarily bad, for them it's a major +.

Edited 2009-01-24 01:54 UTC

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RE: Conformity
by Moredhas on Sat 24th Jan 2009 03:15 in reply to "Conformity"
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2008-04-10

But of COURSE mac users are nonconformists! Haven't you ever heard the saying "all you nonconformists are all alike"? I jest, of course. The real nonconformists are using Linux, but we're all going to have to move to Syllable if Linux's popularity keeps growing.

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