Isn't that a bit too left wing for it, owning a phone made by those hippies at Apple? I can't believe it would have bought it on the strength of its video playback alone.
Blimey, next week it'll be eating granola and believing global warming is real.
November 8, 2007 | Reply
It's all about the looking cool. Or what the Carusobot thinks is cool. Whether he can do anything with it other than accidentally send pictures of the inside of his pocket to Emily Procter is a different question. Plus of course there's the Apple product placement backsheesh.
Neal Stephenson in In The Beginning Was The Command Line talks about the authoritarian streak lying below the surface of many granola-eating hippie communes and suggests that this might explain some of Apple's loathing of opening its hardware (Command was written in 1999, but I was thinking of it only the other day when reading about Apple bricking the iPhones of people having the temerity to unlock them). So maybe there isn't so much difference between St Jobs of Cupertino and the Carusobot.
"Think different. [puts on sunglasses] Not different enough..." [cue Won't get Fooled Again]
November 8, 2007 | Reply
It could be that the Carusobot and the iPhone are related. And most times family members can overlook the political leanings of their relatives.....