The first UK Apple iPad buyer!
Oh dear. Apple should’ve done a better containment job of ensuring some cute little hipster in ballet shoes and ironic clothing got to the front of the queue. Not this.
This is a PR disaster. This won’t be in the Evening Standard tonight.
Pic via Wired and Twitter and loads of other people from all over the place.
filed in ACTUAL PRODUCTS, PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY on May.28, 2010
May 28th, 2010 on 12:47 pm
He’s the angriest hipster you’ve ever heard
He’s the angry Ipad/Ipod nerd
He’s the angry Apple Inc. neeeerd
So Apple came up with something that looks a lot like the slate computer so many people speculated about in the past. It’s got a big touchscreen, wifi, 3g and, of course, it runs Mac OS X, right? *makes the face seen above* NO! This piece of aluminum shit is nothing but a big Iphone! What were they thinking?
May 28th, 2010 on 1:57 pm
Must be a competition winner ? I can only imagine it’s going to be used for one thing, and there’s the packet of wet wipes under his arm…
May 28th, 2010 on 2:15 pm
Once upon a time only cool people bought apple products. Now it seems they will let anyone by them as shown by the photo above and this link http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/apple-now-accepting-cash-for-its-cold-hard-ipads-video/
May 28th, 2010 on 2:36 pm
Should have smiled like an American would have done. It’s always better to smile than to admit defeat like that. Nothing about the guy is too unusual either. Smile and the world smiles with you.
May 28th, 2010 on 2:55 pm
I spy a professional Apple grinner in the background.
May 28th, 2010 on 3:51 pm
that’s a crappy hold as well.
May 28th, 2010 on 5:36 pm
Did Apple shares plummet today, following this disastrous photo of a middle-aged man buying computer hardware? That guy’s more “Maplin” than “Mac”, I would have thought.
Still, bumped my self-esteem up a little bit today. Apple users really aren’t better looking, hipper and cooler than us! All that marketing crap really is complete bollocks. And the world is slightly better place to live in as a result.
May 28th, 2010 on 8:08 pm
Talking of potato faced late-middle-aged men being caught photographed around this product today, did anyone see Stephen Fry? He announced it not merely as the launch of a new ‘technology’ but something with far more ‘import’: a “cultural event, like a new novel…even.” You could almost see the dollar signs revolving in his eyes like a cartoon character from Warner Brothers. Revolting fat poof. I’m all for the gays and their ideas but he could turn me right off them.
May 28th, 2010 on 9:53 pm
Reminds me of Monty Python’s Gumby.
May 28th, 2010 on 10:27 pm
Nate Lanxon (?!), editor of Wired.co.uk, looks like a twat.
May 29th, 2010 on 4:54 am
Yeah, he’s got the kind of twat haircut that I would normally associate with Apple products. Another reason why this grim looking bald man is my new hero. I hope to see this become a movement. A new plan to sneak people like this guy covertly into Apple promotional photography. It’s the only way to destroy them.
May 29th, 2010 on 9:39 am
Apple gives me the same feeling as Scientology.
And Stpehen Fry is a fuckwit. Sycofantic, gushing, twat. And when was the last time a new novel was a cultural event? You can’t count Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code, unless you mean ‘anything popular with the common herd’ to be culture. In which case that makes the ipad launch on par with Eastenders.
Gushing-twat.
May 29th, 2010 on 11:25 am
That’s Roy. He lives with his mum in a council flat. He’s been saving his incapacity benefit (depression) for ages for his Ipad. Probably.