Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store 249
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from the city-named-after-a-delicious-sandwich dept.
theodp writes "Working calmly in broad daylight and filming their efforts for YouTube posterity, a fake construction crew attached a large Microsoft Windows logo to the black facade of a soon-to-open Hamburg Apple Store. Neat hack in the MIT vein, but next time the crew might want to take along a pic of the Windows logo — with the adrenaline flowing, some of the colors got rearranged and were hung upside down."
Re:They got the colours wrong. (Score:3, Insightful)
Now had it been a penguin... (Score:5, Insightful)
Had it been a penguin, then it would have been funny...
Re:Would I have to be a fanboy... (Score:4, Insightful)
You might not even find it funny but right now you're playing the role of giant stick in the mud. There's two pieces of that: not allowing any position between utterly unfunny and "hoo-hawing to the point of passing out", and insisting that anybody who doesn't think it utterly unfunny (and who is therefore "hoo-hawing" and "slapping [their] knees") must have a profound irrational emotional position to one or both of these companies.
It's a damn prank, not an attempt at the a transcendent humour experience. It's petty vandalism, and as such the vandals should pay back Apple any cost to undo the vandalism and accept the legally required slap on the wrist. But there's not much call to read any deeper into it. People do this all the time for sports rivalries that they don't even care about, they slap stickers for company A on their competitors' products, etc..
It's kind of like this picture that made many slashdotters smile: http://www.linux-magazine.com/var/linux_magazin/storage/images/media/linux-magazine-eng-us/images/news-images/linus-windows-7-rocks/380058-1-eng-US/Linus-Windows-7-rocks.jpg [linux-magazine.com]. The difference is just that a little more went into this prank, but it's the same kind of prank.
Re:Now had it been a penguin... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Once Every Few Years (Score:5, Insightful)
Haha, yeah, remember that one time fifteen years ago!?
Of course, there's no reason to believe these guys were paid, and even if they were it's just a bit of fun that I'm sure Apple employees got a chuckle out of. But not the fanbois! No sirree, everything is a war, and if MS does something like this, it's "creepy".
Re:Would I have to be a fanboy... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's over-reacting like yours that has made the world see the US as a place where you can get sued for looking at someone funny. Thankfully I like in Canada where we have Justice's of the Peace that screen cases for stupid crap and tell the plaintive to screw off. Saves a TON of time/money the courts can use elsewhere.
Re:Would I have to be a fanboy... (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm a builder and I'm on a fixed price contract, you insensitive clod!!!!!