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Apple 1984 Ad Commercial - Original Recording from The Day It First Aired

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2019–2022, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Mostly invoked ironically, to contrast Apple's anti-Big-Brother image in 1984 with its present-day behavior.

A home VCR recording of the original Apple '1984' Macintosh ad, directed by Ridley Scott, as it aired during Super Bowl XVIII, shown in the context of the broadcast.

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@writepub Sep 2019 Pushes back
on HN thread AltStore: Alternative iOS app store that doesn't require a jailbreak
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Request to Apple: Just let this slide and see how it plays out. Remember when you took out SuperBowl ads [1] demonizing authoritarian, totalitarian megacorps that told you how to think and what to do - YOU are that company in 2019. Maybe if you let this alt store be, and monitor it's metrics you'll see that your users really want cheaper, more-full featured apps that you'd never allow on the app store - like a competing browser engine (Chromium), or JIT enabled javascript core [2], ... It may also happen that this alt-store becomes a piracy and malware haven - in which case, your thesis of totalitarian moderation might win. I'd bet my money on the former - a thriving alt-store filled with apps Apple is too cowardly to approve on it's main store - like Steam Game Streaming, Chromium Browser, JIT enabled js/node, ... [1]: [this video] [2]: [link]
@MichaelMoser123 Aug 2021 Pushes back
on HN thread Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
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I guess it doesn't matter, the smartphone is a tracking device by definition, they can track your movement with a dumb phone too, but there are much more possibilities in a device with recording capabilities and an internet connection. In Orwells '1984' they mandated the installation of a televisor tracking device, now they have one in every pocket, and so it goes that we traded privacy for convenience. It's a bit of an irony, that Apple started with the big brother commercial, and ended up bringing us the televisor. [this video] Just because opportunity for an exploit is creating the reality of using that exploit, it seems as if it is then used for it's intended purpose..

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