Epic has released an amazing if somewhat obvious video parody of Apple’s iconic “1984” advertisement for the original Mac in which it recasts Apple as Big Brother and a Fortnite character as the hero.
“Epic Games has defied the App Store Monopoly,” the ad notes. “In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fortnite from a billion devices. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1994’.”
Brilliant.
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dftf
<p>It is a great parody, yes, but I think the real issue is that many Apple fans still believe we are living in the times when that advert came out: Apple is the massive underdog we must always route for.</p><p><br></p><p>Thesedays Apple has the third-largest market-cap; is the 11th largest company worldwide by revenue (3rd highest when considering US companies only); is the second-largest mobile OS after Android (and, let's face-it, there is only two thesedays); has an ever-increasingly money-making services sector; the iPod was the dominant device in that product-category ("MP3 players"); the iTunes Store was highly-profitable; WebKit is the de-facto standard on iOS devices (no competition in web rendering-engines) and Siri is one of the most-used voice-assistants.</p><p><br></p><p>Apple is not this tiny, small underdog thesedays people still seem to think it is.</p>
BrianEricFord
<blockquote><em><a href="#561520">In reply to dftf:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>The flip side to that, of course, is that many Microsoft fans to this day feel some strong need to oppose every move Apple makes, with a burning desire even more irrational than it was back when Microsoft wasn’t actually in Apple’s shadow in so many important markets.</p><p><br></p><p>As with then, it’s a fairly one-sided preoccupation with needing validation.</p>
dftf
<blockquote><em><a href="#562214">In reply to paul-thurrott:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yeah, id were impressed by how-many people made their own custom-levels for Wolfenstein 3D, and decided from DOOM onwards to facilitate that more-easily. (The release of the source-code later-on helping with ports, too.)</p><p><br></p><p>Can't think of many-other examples from the era where anything official liked that happened, though in 2000, "Tomb Raider: Chronicles" for PC did come with an official level-editor included. (And more-recently, the "Mario Maker" series.)</p>