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Apple - 1984

antisubliminal · 1.9M views · 2006-06-19 · 1:00

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Overview

Apple's famous 1984 Macintosh television commercial, which casts the company as a rebel breaking a Big Brother-style conformity.

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Cited ironically or as a joke when Apple is accused of becoming the controlling Big Brother it once mocked.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2016–2023

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PaulHoule · 2023-05 · Criticism

No. People don’t see the value in ‘decentralization’, their motto is something like ‘give me convenience or give me death’. This commercial, for the first personal computer that didn’t come with any programming tools, reveals the true attitude of the masses: [VIDEO] (Note the guy talking in the screen is a blockhead as I see it.)

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shrimp_emoji · 2023-03 · Joke / meme

It's not just that. Apple is evil. Apple users are willing slaves, shackling themselves to gilded cages. Death to the evil Apple empire. They never said winning was easy. Freedom is painful and unsexy. But it's right. It's the sea of sheep around us who is wrong. :triumph: Ironyposting [VIDEO]

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kelvin0 · 2021-09 · Criticism

They've come a long way from building personal computers in Wozniak's garage. In the process they've transformed into the 'big brother' from their 1984 T.V. ad campaign. [VIDEO]

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