Posted on 02/12/2016 5:37:08 PM PST by IncPen
He might hate the United States, but he sure digs those designed-in-California computers.
You probably wouldn’t take Kim Jong-un as a Mac user. Usually, in photos of him checking out military computers, we see the North Korean dictator in front of a P.C.
[Image: AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS]
However, a handful of photos of the supreme leader at his own desk show him with Macs, leading to the assumption that while the military may use PCs, his personal preference is Mac.
For example, Reuters correspondent James Pearson, who covers North Korea and South Korea, tweeted out this image earlier today:
There are other images, including a 2013 image of Kim Jong-un at his desk with an iMac
[Image: KCNA via Logsoku]
That same year, South Korean newspaper Chosun published this photo from North Korean Central News Agency, which shows an Apple iMac.
[Image via Chosun]
It might be easy to write these off as inconsequential, but considering how North Korea’s own homegrown OS is, as our colleagues at Gizmodo say, a “delightful Mac OS X knockoff.â€
[Image via Gizmodo]
The strongest Mac connection, however, is that Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il was a Mac user. Google, sorry Alphabet Inc., president Eric Schmidt visited North Korea a few years back with his daughter Sophie.
After visiting Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the giant state mausoleum, Sophie Schmidt recalled (via Gizmodo):
Also lying in state: the late Leaders’ cars, train compartments and even a yacht, all preserved in their former glory. Even Kim Jong Il’s platform shoes were on display. I was delighted to learn that he and I shared a taste in laptops: 15" Macbook Pro.
Kim Jong-il apparently died in his mobile office on train, and the Macbook Pro can apparently be seen in this photo of the preserved train coach.
So, like father, like son?
Top image: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File
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Simple, you made a big deal about nothing. Something that I read as sarcasm. You need to lighten up about it. Apple is a company, they are not a deity.
“Apple products bring out the dictator in folks.”
That is funny, seriously, how tightly wound up are you be to find that offensive?
whatever you do , do not go into a cruz/trump/eminent domain/goldman sacs thread, you might lose your mind
Why do you continue your ad hominem attacks on me? I assure you I am quite fine and was continuing a humorous conversation with Incpen. I assure you I have a well developed sense of humor. Your veiled attacks on my sanity are not welcome nor needed. They are merely more of the same I have grown quite used to in Apple threads and they get REAL OLD after the umpteenth repetition. You are just escalating your insulting behavior. I really doubt you are a qualified psychiatrist, so give it a rest. You are not funny. . .
Swordmaker finds it offensive because he’s an employee of Apple who pretends to be a “CEO” of a top secret phantom corporation. That never sits well...for him.
Right, Swordmaker? You don’t protest this too loudly, so I’ll go ahead and assume it to be truth until you can prove otherwise.
Hey, good to see you.
We’re still waiting for the annual report of your company which is so much more successful than Apple.
Could you please (finally) post it here, so we can fully understand your genius?
It is some kind of a mental defect to go to a place where you’re not wanted or appreciated, and where you’ve stated you have no interest in the topic, to simply make insulting comments.
This was posted as humor.
Must you be a troll here? Why even click the link?
Righteous narcissism? Attention seeking?
Hey, everyone knows Kim Il Sung invented Apple and the Macintosh, so why shouldn’t his grandson use it?!
Ed
I hate to disturb the cool-kid zen of you Mac users, but that screen is classic Linux... looks like KDE. Perhaps Linux Mint’s MATE.
The latest Mac OSX desktop design borrows heavily from Ubuntu releases from a few years ago.
Sorry, Mac lovers. You can return to your state of zen.
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