I am certainly glad you and niteflyer are finding a YouTube filled with ad hominem attacks and insults to iPhone and Apple users posted in an Apple/Mac/iPhone thread uproariously funny. That's exactly what we are complaining about. Gratuitous Ad hominem attacks on users... we are tired of being the butts of your juvenile jokes. There have been too many of them for too many years.
Hey Sword, don't take that one too hard -- it was posted as an external link and not as an inline comment. Unlike the same sort of insults posted as comments within the thread, watching that vid is completely and utterly voluntary.
Yeah, it's dumb as hell, and relentlessly, gratuitously rude and insulting, but it's also perfectly clear after the first 5 seconds where it's going. So if somebody chooses not to be assaulted by it, they can stop and go back to the thread.
I object to personal attacks and abuse in the comments in the Apple threads, and I've called people out on that, and pinged the Admin Mods from time to time. You know that.
But I consider an external reference something else -- it's like the porn channel on TV -- I know it's there but I don't have to watch it.
Just my opinion. You know I support your Apple threads and appreciate them, and I respect your efforts to bring Apple-related tech news to us. I'm certainly not ragging on ya. Just sayin', this one isn't worth working up a sweat over.
Actually I am an iPhone user/lover and took it the other way...point of the cartoon as I saw it is that the iPhones were sold out...and no matter what the salesman promised the buyer knew exactly what they wanted.
I remember when a buddy talked me into an iPhone 3G when I was going to buy an HTC Fuze they supposedly carry..(gee what happened to THAT one???) as I was a Windows Mobile/PC freak and never owned an Apple product in my life. The day I went to Best Buy to pick up the HTC they didn't know what I was talking about (at the time that was THE iPhone killer...for about ten minutes anyway maybe..ha ha! ) I noticed everyone, and I mean everyone... was buying iPhones...so I relented as I trusted my buddy's judgment and have been tickled with my 3G ever since and WILL buy a 4 soon. I would be like the iPhone buyer in the cartoon...(I don't care...I want an iPhone 4"...)...so maybe it's my dark sense of humor.. but I meant no attack/disrespect on Apple/iPhone at all...;o)
Excuse me, what did I post that was not factual and truthful? I found it funny, and I stated as much. Do you have a problem with people expressing factually based opinions in threads?