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Flickr Find: Grand Theft Auto hides Apple and iPhone parody
What do the authors of Grand Theft Auto IV think about Apple users? Tossers. (Warning: definition link NSFW). They've embedded a brilliant Apple parody into one of the Internet cafe computers in the game.
Among other points, they take down Apple (called "Fruit") for being overpriced minimalism. A white shiny unit, superficially similar to the "i" sits next to a near-cinema display and readers are encouraged to "Think Fruit" and live in the Fruit Cocoon.
And if that's not enough, the site advertises a new banana-shaped iFruit phone. Its sales points made me laugh out loud: No buttons, no reception, no storage capacity, all Ego!
Kudos to GTAIV and thanks to Dylan Unutmaz for sending in the links.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Justin Smestad said 11:40AM on 5-01-2008
This made my day. Even after seeing the Fruit's iPhone killer, I still want one :)
Justin Smestad
www.resourcefulidiot.com
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Simon Arch said 11:52AM on 5-01-2008
Doesn't it need to be funny in order to be considered a parody? It's unoriginal and boring. These guys are supposed to be creative and this is the best they could come up with?
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si monyouraasshole said 12:08PM on 5-01-2008
Its funny your just a stupid To$$er...
Mike Schramm said 12:07PM on 5-01-2008
Whatever Jack Thompson.
dastranger said 12:07PM on 5-01-2008
I found it hilarious.
And GTA IV is amazing, maybe you should play it.
Diego Perez said 12:11PM on 5-01-2008
Get over yourself.
Leon said 4:50PM on 5-01-2008
Spoken like a fanboy. Mind you, I have an iPhone and a Macbook, and I thought it was hilarious.
Simon Arch said 6:23PM on 5-01-2008
Thank you everyone, especially you, si monyouraasshole, for your brilliantly written and cogent responses. I feel they warrant individual responses, so here I go:
si monyouraasshole: Take a remedial English class. Please. I am, however, touched that you bothered to try to insult me. Thank you. It's nice to know someone's thinking of me, even if it's in an uncomplimentary manner.
Mike Schramm: What? I don't like the parody so I hate the game and want game makers to be locked up? That's the most twisted, convoluted bit of logic I've seen outside of Harry Potter fandom. Bravo, sir. Bra-vo.
dastranger: Thanks for the advice, but GTA isn't my cup of tea. I like Quake a lot, and Deus Ex. I might give GTA a shot sometime though, just for kicks. Who knows, I might like it. I doubt that liking the game would make me think this was funny though.
Diego: What, I'm not entitled to my opinion?
Leon: *BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!* Me? A FANBOY? Dude, I'm anything BUT a fanboy. Try looking at my comment history sometime.
Your opinions are your own, and you are welcome to them, and I'm entitled to my own. And it's my considered opinion that you're all a bunch of tossers. Oops, "to$$ers".
Have a LOVELY evening! :)
Hawkman said 6:41PM on 5-01-2008
Simon's right. Usually I'm the first guy to have a chuckle at this kind of thing, but it's just not funny. Where's the originality?
MoonMan said 8:00PM on 5-01-2008
@ Simon Arch
I'm sorry that it hurts your feelings when Apple products are parodied. Nothing worse than hurt feelings.
Simon Arch said 10:03PM on 5-01-2008
@MoonMan - hurt feelings? Who said anything about hurt feelings. I thought it wasn't funny. I guess I was wrong about that. Silly me, thinking I could hold and express an opinion without ad hominem attacks. What WAS I thinking?
Kevin Henry said 7:01AM on 5-02-2008
Parody (n) - an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect : the movie is a parody of the horror genre
• an imitation or a version of something that falls far short of the real thing; a travesty : he seems like a parody of an educated Englishman.
So it is a parody, but yes, it is kind of boring and unoriginal. FoxTrot has had iFruits for a while. Lots of other different things including TV shows make a parody on Apple's iStuff. Nickelodeon even uses actual Apple computers but puts some other logo on them for some of their shows.
RossGough said 6:35PM on 6-02-2008
basically the parodies in gta are supposed to be like this.
they're funny because they're not, in a sence.
it is a bluntly put rip at the company and every game has had something or other which does this and achieves the same effect.
so thinking of it this way, it's not supposed to be funny.
it's supposed to be offensive. no?
it's just how each individual percieves it,
and each is entitled to their own :)
tim said 12:13PM on 5-01-2008
So we are being mocked for following hype by the company that makes GTA?! Hello Pot, meet Kettle. ;-)
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Erik said 12:32PM on 5-01-2008
This is especially funny considering that Rockstar probably has a mostly Mac office. Also, their branding in New York City is much more obnoxious than even Apple.
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Neckaros said 12:35PM on 5-01-2008
One of the radio feature the voice of our dear Victoria (Mac voice)
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Matt Morgan said 12:36PM on 5-01-2008
Does this mean we'll never see a mac version of gta IV?
*sigh*
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Andrew said 12:46PM on 5-01-2008
And yet the in-game web browser looks a lot like Safari. :-)
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Steven Fowler said 12:48PM on 5-01-2008
Just to clear it up, in the GTA world To$$ers (similar to "Micro$oft) use the "Technical Operating System" or TOS (DOS, anyone?) Fruit users are called Fruitheads or Fruits (I don't exactly remember which and my PSP is not working correctly so I can't find out for sure). Like always, the guys at GTA are just out to parody and insult every single aspect of modern life. I haven't played GTA IV, but I loved all the other GTA games.
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SkippyThorson said 11:57PM on 5-03-2008
I like Apple, but this is damn funny and true. Reminds me of the days of Maibatsu Thunder: The power of a compact. I always liked their originality and humor. :)