CNN Election Team Hides iPads Behind Sponsored Microsoft Tablets [CNN caught with their 'Pads down]

NYMag.com ^ | Nov. 4, 2014 | Joe Coscarelli

[Colofornian]

CNN's partnership with Bing and Microsoft was going great until someone switched the camera angle.

From the front, all midterm viewers could see last night was an immaculate row Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablets:

...But like a Playboy resting comfortably in a geometry textbook, there were iPads lurking...

[itsahoot]

Microsoft is a 2 on the Openly gayness Scale.

Cook was stupid to come out, but my computer still works today and it has not lead me to any gay porn sites yet, if it does I will let you know.

[Bill93]

You’re damn right I take it seriously, because as bad as gay marriage is, I find the idea of murdering children even worse.

[Bill93]

You can check out the “fabulous” video at>>>>
http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/08/apple-makes-a-gay-pride-video-and-of-course-its-gorgeous/

Apple makes a gay pride video and, of course, it’s gorgeous

Apple has put its famous design brain power toward making a gorgeous video in support of gay pride. Filmed over San Francisco’s city-wide pride weekend on June 28, the video shows thousands of Apple employees brandishing a re-imagined Apple logo with rainbow colors, while they march down Market St.

CEO Tim Cook tweeted a link to the video earlier today with the phrase “Inclusion inspires innovation.”

Cook appears to be alluding to a legal brief that Apple and other major tech companies sent to the Supreme Court last year, which said that marriage equality was essential to America’s economic competitiveness. Tech companies, the legal brief argued, “are competing domestically and internationally with companies inside and outside the United States in places where all couples, regardless of whether they are of the same sex, are afforded equal access to marriage.”

Well you got me there, I hadn’t seen that one before. Still, MS that puts us right back where we started. MS is just as bad, and you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

[Fightin Whitey]

Be darned. I didn't know Meatloaf had joined the CNN team.

Maybe that'll make for a little more conservative, um, balance?

[Norm Lenhart]

Well why are you supporting it with your dollars? Apple is one of the big feminist pushing pro choice companies.

See, the fanboi thing needs to get thought through. Apple makes good stuff. I agree. Apple also starts, funds and pushes social justice and green crap as a primary source of lifestyle brand ID advertizing. Their execs OFTEN mouth off and they put out tons of PR across the planet promoting their brand filled with the leftist agenda.

Sure MS does. Not to the degree that the gay community is almost all Apple based. In fact, it’s a leftist hipster/liberal badge of honor to have apple toys. It’s a uniform. Not so with any other company.

They all do it. Some are more equal about it than others. Buy what you want. But it’s a lie to try to paint Apple as some also ran in the lib agenda wars. They are a primary sponsor. Financially, culturally, educationally and the rest.

[martin_fierro]

LOL.

[Bill93]

I switch to a Mac in the XP era frankly for no other reason than that color management in windows was broken (and Linux doesn’t have it at all). I’m a photographer, and I can’t even begin to guess how much money I wasted trying to get prints to come out right because that terrible operating system handles color profiles so poorly, it was like playing roulette trying to figure out whether it’s loaded properly or not. I stuck with it because I no longer have to spend half my time fixing my damn computers. Or other people’s for that matter, nobody asks you to fix their computer anymore when you’re a “Mac guy”.

So no, I’m not one of those guys into iThings, but I do use a Mac Pro, and the lack of frustration it’s given me has been worth every penny.

As far as abortions are concerned when I last bought a computer Apple had no stated position on abortion and had donated nothing toward it, ever. Obviously, I haven’t been babysitting Timmy Cook because he surprised me, not by “coming out” recently but with his gay parade ad. On the other hand, Bill Gates, his father, and Microsoft have had a relationship with Planned Parenthood going back decades. Even if they’re supporting abortion now, though I didn’t manage to find evidence of it , what would you want me to do? Smash my Mac Pro and mail it back to Timmy Cook? That’s just stupid. And with that, I’m done with you, anything else you could possibly say would be a waste of my time.

[dennisw]

thanks for acknowledging my post :)

[a fool in paradise]

Please, show us that advertising from Apple that says iPhones or Macs are promoting gay or eco lifestyle as a preferred choice.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/08/apple-makes-a-gay-pride-video-and-of-course-its-gorgeous/

[Morpheus2009]

There’s really no choice about what to support with regards to a computer, although for some people, such as myself, I custom build my own computer from parts, cheaper and puts less money into those who manufacture It is possible, though more difficult, to custom build an Apple Computer, or a Hackintosh. However, my standing point on the matter is to each their own. There’s plenty of contribution to the leftists causes to go around, especially among all the big computer manufacturers. My personal feeling is that if you can do your job efficiently with the computer at hand, that’s what counts. One does have a choice as to how one utilizes their own machine for their own causes, though.