The viral video hit “Apple Engineer Talks,” which mocks the new MacBook, is a scream. I nearly died laughing — along with millions of other people.
The clever parody was crafted by somebody who clearly has a deep knowledge of Apple, so I was surprised to discover its creator is actually an Android user.
Here’s how he did it, and why he didn’t make any money off his wildly successful Apple viral video.
Armando Ferreira is the brains behind “Apple Engineer Talks about the New 2015 Macbook,” which racked up more than 3 million views on YouTube this week.
“I didn’t really think it was going to get that big,” he told Cult of Mac. “I guess I’m happy about it.” Then he starts laughing.
In the age of YouTube, Ferreira’s story is a case study of how to engineer a viral hit. As the video service expands its already massive reach, everyone from indie content creators to Madison Avenue wants to know how to get attention. Ferreira’s story is instructive.
Ferreira is a 34-year-old, self-employed web developer and designer from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., whose business can be found at Web Design Lab.
He makes tech videos for YouTube as a sideline. He started his YouTube channel three years ago, building an audience with a series of Android-versus-iOS videos. His numbers aren’t massive but they are respectable. He has about 130,000 YouTube subscribers, 80,000 on Google+ and several thousand on Twitter. He occasionally guest blogs on The Droid Effect, an Android blog.
A few weeks ago, he watched a parody video poking fun at Canon’s DSLR cameras. The video is a comically subtitled clip of an old TV interview with Spanish comedian Juan Joya Borja, known as El Risitas, or “The Giggles,” for his infectious laugh.
“I was dying laughing,” Ferreira said. “I was crying. I almost died. I thought, ‘This is the new Hitler. One day I’ll use this to make a video myself.'”
Indeed, the clip is fast becoming the new Hitler Reacts meme, and has been used to poke fun at a bunch of things, from Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty to underperforming graphics cards.
Taking a whack at the new MacBook
Last Monday, Ferreira was watching Apple’s “Spring Forward” keynote presentation.
“I’m a huge fan of Apple,” said Ferreira, who owns an iPad and a couple of MacBooks. But while he says he loves Apple, he dislikes the iPhone. “That’s the one device from Apple I’ve never been a fan of,” he said. He prefers the flexibility of Android, and uses a Nexus 6.
Ferreira was hoping Apple would announce a new MacBook Air with a high-resolution Retina screen at Monday’s event. He was sorely disappointed by the radically stripped-down machine Apple presented instead.
“It’s almost ridiculous to say this is better because it’s a few ounces lighter (than the current MacBook Air),” he said of the Force Touch MacBook. “I wanted to see a MacBook Air with a Retina display. That would have been perfect.”
He didn’t get the MacBook he wanted, but he spotted some great material for a satirical video.
He started work on a script for the subtitles but initially found it very difficult. He wanted to stick to the Canon script — to reproduce it almost exactly — but it wasn’t working. He labored for hours and almost gave up. He finally started to make progress after he abandoned the idea of reproducing the Canon video exactly.
Ferreira speaks Spanish, and tried to match some of the comedian’s phrases, hand movements and body language to the script he was writing. Suddenly everything clicked, and he finished most of his video before he went to bed.
“I woke up pretty early,” he said. “I was excited about it. I didn’t sleep all night. I was able to finish up in 30 minutes.
“Every time I watched it I was laughing,” he added. “If I was laughing every time I played it, I knew other people would like it too.”
He uploaded the video Wednesday around 10 a.m. Pacific and posted a link to his followers on YouTube, Google+ and Twitter. He didn’t publicize it in any other way, like sending it to tech blogs.
The viewership started modestly — 1,600 views in the first hour — but doubled every hour after that. It was picked up by some big tech blogs — including Business Insider, Wired and Cult of Mac — and by noon Thursday it peaked, being watched 100,000 times an hour.
At first the video had ads on it, but after a copyright complaint from the owner of the original clip — Radio Television de Andalucia — it was flagged by YouTube. Ferreira appealed and was able to keep the video up, but had to remove the ads.
“It’s a parody so I could use it under fair use, but I couldn’t monetize it,” he explained. “If it had been able to monetize I would have made several thousand dollars.”
Instead, he annotated the video with links to his other videos, whose views have skyrocketed. “Even if it’s not monetized, its still helping my channel,” he said.
Money would have been nice, but Ferreira is delighted with the response his video received. “Worldwide, people are laughing, and for a moment when they are watching the video they are having a good time,” he said. “I’m happy about that.”
He has a new idea for another jokey MacBook video, but next time, he’s not going to use any copyright-protected video. Until then, you can enjoy “Apple Engineer Talks” below.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander is an expert on:
Apple and Apple history
Steve Jobs, Jony Ive, Tim Cook and Apple leadership
Apple community
iPhone and iOS
iPad and iPadOS
Mac and macOS
Apple Watch and watchOS
Apple TV and tvOS
AirPods
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
You can find out more about Leander on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can follow him on X at @lkahney or Instagram.
77 responses to “How an Android user created a hit Apple viral video”
No other company on the planet can illicit such a response to a single product than Apple. There are (probably) just as many Apple haters as there are Apple lovers. Had HP or Dell done something this no one would’ve noticed because, well, who cares?! Dell and HP are just barely holding onto their relevance in the market. Forever the Big Mac to Apple’s filet mignon.
And as usual all the Apple haters are viewing this new MacBook completely devoid of logic and reason.
This MacBook represents the future but instead of thinking about how they’re going to use the cloud more and maybe even buy an Apple TV at the new price of $69, they’re focused on ports that they probably barely use and frankly don’t serve as critically necessary components.
As for the video, it’s more annoying than funny. I much prefer the Hitler “Downfall” video. That was funny because it was taking a situation that wasn’t meant to be satirical and made funny by the content in the subtitles.
That’s because of their insane and kinda unethical marketing practices, and the famous reality distortion field. It makes for fantastic backlash.
I’ll bite. What’s “kinda unethical” about Apple’s marketing?
Cult of Mac did a story about it. Apple manipulates the valley tech press pretty unethically. Remember when Computer Bild proved that the iPhone 6 bends under 41 pounds of pressure behind the volume controls with an impossible to dispute scientific test? Apple banned them from WWDC for telling the truth about their defective phone. That’s highly unethical. It’s the reason people are wary to report on Apple’s failures like iRadio (look out spotify!), or iBeacons (It’s going to kill NFC for payments!) however we have kinda seen this changing with folks reporting on Apple Wallet’s failure to capture consumer interest so far. So the short of it is, a lot of the time you don’t find out about the flaws and issues with Apple products until you get them home since the valley press is manipulated by Apple with fear.
You did not read the failure stories about iBeacon, because the scheme you suggested does not exist at all.
The technology behind iBeacon and Payment is Bluetooth 4.0 LE, which uses 2.4GHz radio frequency band; and NFC is an standardised version of high frequency RFID, which uses 400KHz radio frequency band. They do not interfere, both physically and functionally.
Proximity function is part of the Bluetooth LE. Anyone who implements BLE will have such feature, either supported by system library or self implemented within apps.
So why you’d not seen such applications widely adopted everywhere ? Because a location anchor will gave you nothing but location, with an error of +/- 5 meters (about 25% of the transmission range) in average.
With such level of accuracy, it’s only useful to notify you something like “OK you’re now in the first floor, MAYBE near the elevator hall. We have special sales in 3F and you should go check it”. Ever seen the engineer’s nightmare movie “Minority Report” ? Recall the scene Tom Cruise got bombarded by advertisements while he go through the hall ? Yeah, iBeacon is just like that.
Furthermore, the iBeacon’s Bluetooth LE packet frame is publicly visible without encryption. It can be hacked, or “spoofed” in security terms. In other words, iBeacon is NOT designed to handle private data exchange like payment.
It’s why Apple had never intended to make iBeacon a replacement of NFC. If they had such intention, they’d use private BLE profile with no-one-else-known PK encryption and locked it deeply within the ecosystem of iOS, and you’ll never see apps like “iBeacon detector” within Google Play store.
It’s a simple logic, only to be ignored by the biased.
Anything you read about “NFC killer” story is nothing but science fiction fabricated by the ignorant media who have no idea what they’re talking about. Saying “iBeacon is going to kill NFC” just like telling “3G is going to kill WiFi”. It’s way too ridiculous.
Apple needs to ban all the tech hacks with their ridiculous claims. It’s never been proven that the iPhone 6 is a defective smartphone. All smartphones will bend if you apply enough pressure to them at certain points. No smartphone is going to have the rigidity of the Hoover Dam. There must be hundreds of large display smartphones on the market and I’ll bet every one of them will bend with enough pressure. If Apple’s iPhone 6 is a defective smartphone, then there are an awful lot of consumers buying defective smartphones and are happy with it.
I don’t want to open up a whole other can of worms but regardless of the bendability of the iPhone which I think is wildly overblown, Bendgate was more about an issue with Apple’s design philosophy. They are so focused on making things slimmer and lighter that they ignore what the market really desires. I would bet overwhelmingly that people would have preferred more battery life than a thinner phone.
Same with the new MacBook, people want an air with a retina display, not an even thinner laptop with less ports and more compromises.
Apple is pushing the envelop with design and technology and that is to be applauded but how about listening to the customers first. Fortunately they have a cult of followers that will defend and support Apple in every endeavor regardless if it meets their actual needs.
This latest MacBook is NOT for everyone. It’s for a small group of people. You have to look at it like some past systems. It’s showing a number of features that will be coming in the future to other Mac computers. From the Retina screen, to the new Touch pad, and the use of USB-C port. Even to the keyboard.
It’s the direction Apple is heading.
Next new MacBook will have a real Intel Processor with some speed, and a couple USB-C ports besides the MagLock power connector or not. A couple USB-C would be fine. That opens up more 3rd party options. Apple has tossed out Floppy drives to CD drives and when doing that, everyone was going oh no, How dumb, it’s the end of the world until everyone else did the same thing!!!
Consumer Reports did the bend test and found that the HTC One M8 bent easier then either of the iPhones and yet no one cares about that. Ignore the HTC One M8, and keep on attacking Apple. Yet Apple has sold record iPhones. Bending has been a non-issue for months and like like everything else, only the fandroids seem to care and keep bring it up even though it’s meaningless. They still being up Antennagate on the iPhone 4, yet I had zero issues and I’m left handed which should make the problem worse because of your palm making the jump. I used that phone for 4+ years before getting the iPhone 6.
I concede that Apple’s reaction to that bendgate report was a bit overzealous. However, holding Apple to some unobtainable moral standard is completely disingenuous. Especially when Google and Microsoft have both been found guilty of unethical business practices and dealings. Here’s a few bullet points:
– Google circumventing loophole in Safari (for iOS) gathering user data via cell towers
– Two protestors storming the last Google I/O Conference: one related to dubious real estate practices that suggest Google is forcibly moving residents without six-figure incomes from their property; the other was a guy slamming Google for their role in the death of innocent civilians after their purchase of Boston Dynamics’ military robot division
– Google stealing Java code in the development of Android
– And Microsoft, well, anyone over the age of 30 should be well aware of their monopolistic practices forcing them to separate into different divisions to avoid massive law suits
No company is above reproach but that doesn’t necessarily stop me from using their products/services. My guess is if we knew what was really going on behind closed doors it would shock us out of our socks.
Now, If your goal is to somehow disrupt the Apple loyalists of this site — a site that lovingly relishes it’s CULT-like status — I recommend you seek other trees at which to bark. No one that visits this site regularly, and is an Apple fan, will stop buying Apple products because YOU have a problem.
Cheers!
Wait one second, bro. Apple stop sending them iPhone test models, and stop giving them invites to there keynotes. How is this frekin unethical. If these are unethical practices then Microsoft , and Google are frekin monsters. Just ask the Rap genus website about Google.
I beacons is actually in allot of major retailers, and is a form of Bluetooth, which has killed NFC, for everything except payments.
Also, every company has a so called reality distortion field.
Apple simply has a good track record for making good products that people like.
Were going to here all the geeks of the world hate on this Macbook, but I’m almost positive that In a few years or so most laptops will be just like it (super ultra books!). This will be the Macbook Air, all over again.
And that video is just to damn funny! It hurts my stomach.
There’s “unethical” marketing? Is that based on your marketing degree that I know you don’t have?
As I mentioned in the other comment, it’s based on a story Cult of Mac did. You may know those guys.
MacBook represents the future with cloud? Chromebooks have been doing this since 2011 and have been growing ever since, with a volume increase of 125% just last year.
This!!
Yeah, I like how everyone is vilifying Apple for, basically, adopting (or copying) Google’s vision of the future of laptops: all cloud, no drives, no dongles (hence, Chromecast).
The original MacBook Air predates the Chromebook, the Chrome Browser was based on Apple’s WebKit, and Chromecast is an AirPlay knockoff.
Stop trying to rewrite history.
And Apple Wallet is a copy of Google Wallet, and the iPhone 6 is a pretty blatant copy of the HTC One, and bigger phones, and smaller tablets, and all the other things Apple copied. Nobody cares. The consumer won.
Do all of you Android fanatics share the same talking points?
Apple Pay is not a copy of Google Wallet. It is a vastly superior implementation of mobile payments, brought to market at the opportune time. As such it has succeeded where Google a Wallet failed. This is why Samsung Pay and Android Pay, blatant copies of Apple Pay, are now being rushed to market.
The iPhone 6 is the modern expression of the original iPhone, the device from which the design of the HTC One is derived.
Try again with something real and non-trivial.
Never seen a Chromebook in real life, while it’s impossible to count all MacBook Airs that I see everyday. Let’s forget about Google hardware.
MacBook Air…. Chromebook copy?? Please, the Air has been doing it for a long time. Chromebook and Microsoft Surface, now there’s a pair.
Chromebooks cost 200 FKN DOLLARS! Wake up, you sheep!
“Elicit”.. Maybe spend a bit more time actually learning stuff than defending a corporate who makes money selling overpriced gadgets?
If Apple’s products are overpriced, how would you describe the new Galaxy S6 models? They are $50 to $100 more than comparably equipped iPhones.
I used “illicit” when I should’ve used “elicit” and yet you used “corporate” when you should’ve used “corporation”.
Seems like we both got the gist of out points.
Having said that, the “overpriced gadgets” line is really tired. Here’s a little lesson for you: the Surface Pro 3 starts at $799 and that’s without the $129 keyboard that’s in ALL of their marketing.
The new Samsung Galaxy 6 is said to start at $799. The latest Chromebook, the Pixel, starts at $999. Sure you can buy an HP Stream for $200 but the point is that Apple is not alone in what you consider “overpriced”.
So based on your theory not only is Apple out of your price range but so is Microsoft, Lenovo and many other PC manufacturers.
Only an Apple fanboy could see one of these failures as a success for Apple. They can do no wrong! You tried a proper OS yet, bro?
Not sure what failure(s) you’re referring to but you do realize you’re on an Apple site, right? As though your incredibly pitiful and futile question is somehow clever or insightful.
You’ve already painted me a “fanboy”; what do you think I’m gonna say?!
Have a tried a “proper OS?” What, of the whopping two that are available? Sure there’s Ubuntu but Democrats and the GOP are to OS X and Windows as the Independent party is to Ubuntu.
You can cast your vote but everyone knows it’s a two party system.
I guess that makes Chrome OS the Tea Party. A party that’s not really an party. Just some crazy, off-kilter byproduct that a scant few devotedly support.
@marklangston:disqus, have you shaved today? I need some wool…
I remember when Apple did away with a CD/DVD drive in the MacBook Air. Everyone was laughing, saying how dumb it was. It was not dumb, it was genius. I don’t remember the last time I’ve held a CD in my hands. The Android and PC folks are stuck in the past, they are afraid of the future. IBM did not think ahead, and is now completely irrelevant, Microsoft is quickly headed that way, and soon, other companies will be following.
I like how someone that uses Apple products is expected to only use Apple products, or they become an “Android User”. A great number of tech fans use everything and aren’t an anything user. We simply prefer what’s best. Apple doesn’t always make the best things.
Agreed. Though being a dedicated Apple user has perks that no other company/product can lay claim too. Handoff, Continuity, AirPlay and AirDrop being just a few fringe benefits of going all Apple.
Airplay and Chromecast are very similar and AirDrop and Pushbullet are very similar. Not so sure about Continuity and Handoff.
Similar, yes but not to a fault. With AirPlay I can display ANYTHING from my iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Can’t say the same for Chromecast but I know Google’s working on getting closer to AirPlay functionality.
You can display anything on Chromecast, too.
Didn’t know Chromcast grew from 4 apps.
I did a little digging and you’re right: Chromecast now has the ability to screen share. I retract my statement.
I still prefer AirPlay but it’s good for Chromebook users to have the ability to mirror their screen.
You can even cast your phone screen on chromecast
Learn Handoff and Continuity and continue commenting. Also, Apple Pay with biometric tokenization authentication too…Force Touch trackpad is years ahead any other competitor. The problem is: everyone bashes it and then copies it…yup, Siri is one example…Google and MS bashed it and see what they do now. None removable battery and no SD slot? Guess who’s following these now!
Within 6 months, eveyone will make thi laptop with 1 port or maybe 2 (to be different)
The trackpad is cool and i can see it being useful. Google Now is not Siri, they are much more informative and useful… Its made for grownups not teenagers. MS Cortana seems to mix the two and make a great virtual assistant.
Good thing Google Now is available on iOS, as well as most everything else Google makes making the iOS world the best place to play.
The problem is on iOS the actual integrated services such as the stock mail app and Siri have much to be desired.
Good thing there’s the App Store and its billion apps to stem the tide for some of Apple’s internal deficiencies.
The native Mail app is great but for work email I use Outlook. As for Siri it all depends on your workflow. If you’re constantly performing searches like, how deep is the Grand Canyon, or whatever I suppose Google Now is a better choice but to give Google brownie points for performing searches is par for the course. I don’t think anyone is thinks Apple is the king of search. Which is why you get the option of using Google, Yahoo, Bing or DuckDuckGo as your default browser search engine.
But I digress.
We could debate Mail, Siri and everything else iOS does/doesn’t do until we’re blue in the face. You don’t like it buy an Android phone and don’t get sour when an all Apple site with all Apple fans praises all Apple products.
Oh, Pushbullet is similar to AirDrop and even better than it. I’ll give you Handoff and Continuity. Force touch is great, too, not denying that. Siri is shit compared to Google now and Cortana. Cortana is even better than GNow, at times. Non-removable battery and non-SD card expansion isn’t exclusive to Apple, no one’s following Apple here, buddy. Apple has some great things, not denying, but they lack in some departments, too. Chromebook, Asus Zenbook are better than Apple’s Macbook(functionality wise) If everyone goes the 1 port route, I’m going to be pissed. Ports are necessary for certain individuals, hence other companies won’t eliminate them altogether.
No it’s not. You have no idea what AirDrop is.
AirDrop does not rely on internet connection nor any cloud service. When you choose AirDrop target, your devices will negotiate using Bluetooth to create a encrypted WiFi tunnel, for data transmission. This WiFi tunnel is peer-to-peer, which does not require AP backbone; so your devices don’t even need to connect to any AP to make the whole magic work. And that’s why you can AirDrop something across different devices and accounts.
In other words, AirDrop is an infrastructure that allows apps to create P2P networking instantly. File transmitting is only an application built upon this facility, and the benefit is obvious: your device won’t need to keep polling from cloud server for notification, which will drain your battery and internet traffic rapidly. Furthermore, since it’s WiFi peer-to-peer, there will be no limitation on file size or internet traffic. People had successfully transmit 10GB of movie files over AirDrop without problem.
Pushbullet is a decent service, but it’s not designed in the way that AirDrop works. It’s ultimately laughable to compare AirDrop with Pushbullet, let alone claiming which one is “better” than another.
Hmm, alright. That’s great if it can work without Internet, but Pushbullet can do so much that you can’t just say it’s not on par with AirDrop. Sending stuff to Computer from your device and vice versa is quite impressive. I’ve never used AirDrop, but I can say that Pushbullet has been pretty useful for me, at least. For the big files, AirDroid is also pretty good, I’d say.
It’s good Pushbullet is useful for you, but the concept of Pushbullet and AirDrop are two different things. Pushbullet is a internet service like DropBox but AirDrop is a new type of network interface. And since AirDrop is a system infrastructure, any app may utilize AirDrop to transmit virtually anything WITHIN the app.
The downside of internet service is, of course, privacy issue. Don’t need to say more. And you can never be sure whether you can still use their service (for free, at least) in the future. Pushbullet is NOT the first cloud-based publishing/subscribing service for file / clipboard / notification sharing; such services can dated back to 2009 or earlier. You may never heard of them because they just vanished in few years. Let’s hope they won’t follow the same fate of it’s predecessor.
BTW, for big files, iTunes WiFi Sync is also pretty good, too. And GoodReader. And FileBrowser. And other hundreds of apps. But none of them designed in the way that AirDrop works: auto discover, zero configuration, requires no AP connection, and can cover all kind of cross-device connection: mobile to mobile, computer to computer, mobile to computer, and computer to mobile.
I did not say AirDrop is perfect or ultimate solutions for world peace. I’m just pointing out the difference of philosophy in design and it’s meaningless to compare a “service” such as Pushbullet to a “system infrastructure” such as AirDrop.
You’d really need to spend sometime to understand what Continuity is and what it can do. AirDrop, iCloud auto syncing and Handoff are only parts of the background technologies that support the whole Continuity scheme. If you want to compare Pushbullet or par with something, it should be iCloud + Continuity, not a single item of its background technology.
Gotcha!
Well, features similar to Continuity and Handoff are coming to Windows 10.
It depends what’s important to you. I couldn’t possibly give up Google Now on my wrist for example. It’s just too damn convenient for a successful city dweller. So Apple’s watch attempt is a huge no for me.
You’re obsessed with Apple. That much is clear.
Hey guess what? AirDrop= Bluetooth sharing/tap-to-share between any Bluetooth-/NFC-enabled Android/Windows Phone. AirPlay= Miracast-enabled Android Phones and Windows 8.1 devices, coming to Windows Phone 10. All DLNA devices, as well, which is pretty much everything.
NO AirDrop is NOT Bluetooth sharing ! Bluetooth is only used in the initial stage for discovering and handshaking ! All the data transmission goes through WiFi peer-to-peer tunnel ! NOT Bluetooth !
Why you people just can’t do some research before trolling around ?
If testing it out counts as research, than I have! If the file transfer goes though Wi-Fi, then how come it still works when both devices are in airplane mode?
Did you know you can still turn on WiFi in AirPlane mode ?
I made sure my Wi-Fi was off, too.
There are tech “fans” who use everything. And there are fanboys who hate everything but what they deem to be the best.
Android user or Android loser? Google needs to stick with search and stealing user’s information. That’s what they do best. Google better watch out or Apple might start treading on Google’s territory if they’re not careful. However, Tim Cook says stealing user’s information will be off limits.
With Apple, the iPhone/MacBook is the product, we are the customers.
With google, the product is the user and the customers are the ad agencies.
No thanks.
“We simply prefer what’s best…”
We simply do not care what some narcissistic fandroid prefers. Honestly, we don’t.
I prefer Star Trek Voyager.
My buddy likes Deep Space Nine.
I don’t troll DS9 forums to tell everyone why my preferred show is better.
What a gigantic waste of time that would be.
Can I just say I like BOTH. Throw in Babylon 5 also. There was the whole Babylon 5, DS9 thing early on. My Desktop computer is my high end windows 7 system I built last year. I use a iPhone 6 and a iPad 3. I just got a Windows 8.1 7″ Tablet a few weeks ago to try it out as see if Windows 8.1 is any better on a tablet, Nope, it still stinks!!! I have Apple TV’s, ROKU Boxes and even a Amazon Fire Stick. That’s running a forked version of Android. Oh my god, I’m using everything, it’s the end of the world as we know it.
I do refuse to own any Samsung crap. I’m just tired of their outright copying of Apple. It’s so blatant. It’s not only Apple either.
wrong spot
I love my Surface Pro 3
Wrong spot too.
That’s a beautiful machine too bad windows fell behind.
Nice to hear from the 1 out of a 100 who do. Surface Pro 4 is just around the corner. If they keep grinding them out at this rate they’re bound to get it right by the time the Surface Pro 8 goes on sale.
When I see someone with one of those I feel pity.
So sad.
Can you imagine an iPad user feeling the need to troll an article on some M$ news just to tell people they use an iPad??
Exactly!!! i’ve had my iPad 3, but a few weeks ago I got a Winbook TW700, which is a 7″ Windows 8.1 Tablet. Under $70 and includes Office 365 subscription for the year. So basically a free tablet!!! I have Windows 7 on the Desktop. Which is why I build a new high end Windows 7 PC last year. I got t his tablet to see if Windows 8 is any better on a tablet, It still stinks. Metro is fine, I like it. The problem is at times you get out of Metro into the normal old Desktop and that STINKS on a 7″ tablet trying to use your finger to click on tiny things.
There’s a number of issues. For example, if I just hit the button to turn it off, something I do on my iPad all the time, the battery drains dead in no time. I go to power it up after a couple days of just sitting and it’s DEAD!!! I actually have to go into settings and then do Shutdown to turn it off. The of course makes it takes a bit to power back up!!!
Of how about when I have to enter Log In info at a Web site, the Keyboard Pops up and covers the Box the text is going into so I’m typing blind. I can’t even scroll up to see it. It’s so annoying, I don’t have this issue on my iPad at all. I could go on. Microsoft is trying to make Windows run on Everything for everyone and it’s failing.
I own 4 Xbox 360’s and a Xbox One, and I’m not a fan of the Metro style interface on those. In fact it’s a pain at times to get around and find what the hell I want. I can only hope Windows 10 is better because Windows 8/8.1 is a stinker.
I stroll past topics I don’t give a crap about and that includes most Android ones. I’m not a fan of Android. I have zero need to go into a Android topic and start creating new posts bashing Android and saying how the iPhone is so much better. it’s not going to change any fandroids opinion, Visa-Versa. I don’t give a crap what OS or hardware device you buy, it doesn’t effect me personally. if I’m not using it, what do I care? I don’t!!!! I buy what I like. I don’t tell people what they should buy. I can give recommendations, Pro’s and Con’s on devices if someone asks me, but that’s it.
If a fandroid goes off in a Apple topic spouting off crap, well I’m going to respond to that post. A fandroid can’t even help themselves and start Bashing Apple in most any topic, even if it has nothing to do with Apple or Google or a Smart phones. A completely random topic and they’ll bring up Apple and their hate. It’s that ingrain. The hate is so bad, it’s like Apple killed a Family member. I just don’t get it.
He just grabbed a meme and used it, you don’t need to have big brains for that.
LMAO That was so funny I nearly wet myself. Brilliant just brilliant.
There are so many people and companies riding Apple’s coattails and yet Wall Street and the tech pundits treat the company like it was crap. Leeches can make their bread and butter by criticizing Apple to no end. The haters know they can get attention and make money by denigrating Apple. There are so many other companies they can go after if they wanted to tear companies down, but they don’t. In a way, it’s kind of immoral to bite the hand that feeds you.
So far, Samsung has six wrist-wearable devices that people can rip into but instead they waste all their energy going after on product that hasn’t even shipped as of yet. Same with the Microsoft Band. You’d have to dig deep to find some decent articles about a product that shipped over a month ago as to whether it was useful or had decent sales, but instead, everyone has to voice their two-bit opinion about AppleWatch. It seems like such a biased industry seeing how everyone goes out of there way to rip Apple products.
I saw the same video with subtitles about altcoins and how they are for fools.
sorry just given up reading, tedious does not describe
He would have a point if this laptop was replacing the MacBook Pro and Air, but this additional MacBook line is a minimalists laptop for people that are on the road a lot. And Apple really nailed it.
Who needs USB ports anyway? My keyboard, mouse and printer are all wireless and my files are in the cloud.
I expect an additional screen size later on and faster processors, but this first edition is still faster than most of us need.
They nailed nothing. I’m a minimalist and on the road a lot and I enjoy my MacBook Air, and not once have I ever thought I need a slightly thinner and lighter laptop then the Air.
Especially not one that has a dubious new keyboard, slower processor and less ports. Heck at least 1 standard USB please, I use a flash drive for additional storage and backup what do I do now? Have a dongle hanging from my computer that I have to remove every time I want to charge my computer? Just 1 standard USB port, thats all I needed.
What I really wanted was a retina MacBook Air.
This new MacBook is NOT for everyone. Far from it. Only really for a small group of people. But it’s a look into the future at where Apple is heading.
Additional storage with a Flash Drive. See you’re thinking like the old ways of doing things. Now there’s iCloud Drive, or Dropbox, or a number of others. I have DropBox on my Windows PC’s and iPad and even my new 7″ WIndows tablet. I have the files in the cloud and anything I own can access the files. No dongle needed.
The Battery life is quite long, needing to use the dongle and charging the computer at the time time shouldn’t be much of a issue anyway!!!
I’m sure Apple is working on a new MacBook Air that you want. May have the new Touchpad. Maybe going to USB-C for the port(s). I do think Apple should include 2. One on Each side. With a retina screen.
The Original MacBook Air was also pretty weak!!!
Do you ever charge your MacBook Air on the road??
Rarely have to charge my Air when out and about because the great thing about it is the battery life, so most times I can leave the charger at the hotel and charge it over night.
Though I have had on many occasions needed to copy files given to me by clients that came on a USB stick because transferring back and forth files that large over sharing would take too long. I Also have had to hook up to printers through USB, copy photos off SD cards and hook up to larger displays with thunderbolt. The MacBook Air has me covered with ports it is thin and light and just about perfect, though it would be nice to have a retina screen.
I never once thought that what the MacBook Air needed was to shave off 4mm and make it thinner. I certainly wouldn’t want to pay more money for that reduced thinness and take a hit with a slower processor and less ports and a keyboard that may or may not feel that great and a smaller screen. The new MacBook really is a computer designed for nobody, surely not anyone who does any real work on the road. If it was several hundred cheaper than the Air it might make some sense.
Sure you could carry dongles for everything, but those will cost even more money. Apple is giving you less for more money, only a sucker would even be tempted by the new MacBook.
This is the spiritual successor of that driven to the ground Hitler video.