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Ever Been Frustrated with Apple’s Seemingly Frequent Product Updates? Here’s the Spoof You’ll Want to See

Oct. 30, 2012 2:06pm Liz Klimas

If you’ve ever felt every Apple event that launches a “new” product making small changes (often literally making the device smaller) only serves to add confusion between earlier generations of the product, this parody is for you.

Most recently releasing its iPad Mini — there are three previous generations of the iPad at its standard size, as well as other products like the iPod and iPhone — Apple rolled in many of the features of the larger iPads into a 7-inch design. Jimmy Kimmel has already shown how it is easy to fool people into thinking an iPod touch is an iPad mini.

This spoof of Apple’s promotional video for the iPad might give you some insight into why Kimmel can be so successful at such pranks. Check it out:

Made-up characters in the spoof by written by John Elerick play Apple execs who talk about the device specs, design and technological capabilities, all while trying to clarify the differences between it and other Apple products.

“iPad Mini is the thinnest iPad we’ve ever designed — surprise, surprise. It’s 0.4mm thinner than the iPhone 5, which was just released a month ago, so as usual, each product is thinner than the last. It’s always going to be thinner. Except with the third-generation iPad, which is now the old new iPad. And not the Retina display iPad. Not to be confused with iPad Mini, which doesn’t have a Retina display. But is thinner,” “Gregg Joswak,” VP of iPad thickness, said.

One of the fake Apple executives in the iPad mini spoof. (Image: YouTube screenshot)

The parody even puts a play on how often Apple comes up with the next best device. Talking about when technology will advance to allow them to put out a new model, one of the phony execs says “who knows when that will be.”

“That’s at least seven months into the future. iPad Mini is the future. It’s the future until May at least. Probably more like the end of May, or more than likely June. iPad mini is now the future until then.”

(H/T: CNET)

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Comments (25)

dd41
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 1:43am
No, I have never been frustrated with Apple products BUT I am always frustrated with the Blaze.
Always asking to sign up for something or pushing the ADVERTISEMENTS.
I spend more time waiting for something to load that I just give up and go to the Drudge report
How about concentrating on spelling and easy access.

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- politicianssuck
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 11:09am
  I second that!
  
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- Pearsontech
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 1:42pm
  Here is an idea…. LEAVE!! and stop whining like little babies. And then get a life. I love apples ipod, iphone, and tablet products but I don’t care who you are that video is funny.
  
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bonesiii
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 12:36am
I’m just waiting for the iHouse.

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- SANCTIONEDUSAPATRIOT
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:27pm
  Bet it won’t have Windows…
  
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3rdRockArchangel
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 7:56pm
Apple is the Obama of mini-pads………..I mean the computer kind!

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OniKaze
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 4:42pm
@VRW Conspirator

Also… The computer I was using in college WAS Mac G4 (then we got prototype G4Cubes) to run Video rendering and editing software, and I would inevitably have a system crash during my 5 hour renders… (something my PC at the time NEVER did….).

I was never brainwashed with Apple products, and I still don’t buy them today… If you want to… Thats fine… But I have never and for the foreseeable future WILL never need Apple…

If you like them, power to you… I personally don’t…..

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- Kaoscontrol
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:17pm
  Check that Apple Stock price. Now check Microsoft’s. Apple must be doing something the world likes, cause they’ve sure captured the market share.
  
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OniKaze
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 4:36pm
@VRW Conspirator

1999 – 2003…… I know they have SOME good products (and I won’t deny that) but I don’t need Apple Products, so I will not pay their ridiculously high price tags for things I don’t need, just so people think I am “hip”….

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 4:35pm
Spot on. I have an iPad2 and only bought it because it came down in price comparable to other tablets. I don’t care much for Android the BIGGEST problem I have with their iPods and iPads is that they screw you on the memory. You HAVE to buy their memory configuration, instead of being able yo add memory like you can any other tablet. PLUS, iPads are ALL wireless, no USB ports, no video ports. You have to buy Apples special cable to hook up to the TV or buy Apple TV. Trying to juggle files is a PITA.

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libsaredangerous
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 4:18pm
My effin iPad3 is three months old and already outdated. I am so pissed.

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Conservativeturtle1398
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:32pm
Apple has not “Invented” anything but pretty cases and a rippoff of an operating system (all but the first osx’s were just locked down freebsd kernels, with *** sprinkled on top, stamped OSX.) sense it was established a company. I am proud to say i don’t own any apple products, (Though i have used a few for about 10 minutes before they crashed and asked me to buy stuff.)and i do not intend to purchase any.

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- forthepeople
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Sorry to hear you can’t let go of your Microsoft , I’m sure people had trouble with the end of the Horse & Buggy ?
  
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- azitdad
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 7:25pm
  WHAT?!?! Horse and Buggy? Really? Does your employeer have computers? What about your bank? What about the last restaurant you ate at. I bet they run on PC’s.
  
  No business runs on a Mac. None. The whole business world runs on Microsoft and Cisco products. I doubt your Mac could even print on a Windows network. Mac’s are strictly End User only.
  
  Yeah, Apple did it first, but have you heard of Android? Windows 8? Your fruity little Apple products are quickly being eclipsed by products that are not One-Size-Fits-All. That’s fasciest, and this is America.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:14pm
  Hnhh? My iPad2 prints to both my networked HP laser printers connected to my wireless router. One color and one B&W All-in-One. My daughter can print to my network from her iPhone 4s. I work with both systems and have for about 15 years.
  
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Brooke Lorren
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:02pm
I have an iPad 1 (which I won in a contest) and an iPod touch from 2009. They both work perfectly fine, so I don’t see a reason to get new ones at this point.

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OniKaze
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:46pm
I don’t own a SINGLE apple product…. I don’t HATE Apple or anything, but I find their devices to be lacking…

Sure they may be on the cutting edge of releasing “new” innovated items, but once they are released I usually find a similar product from another mfg. that typically fits my application better than the Apple product…

I used Apple products in College (owned by the school) and they were HORRIBLE…. They crashed regularly, and COULD NOT multi-task without serious problems… Not to mention that ALL Apple products are over-priced…

Great Line I love.:

If every PC (or PC device) in the world suddenly stopped working, the world would collapse into chaos.. Do you know what would happen if EVERY APPLE product stopped working?? Nothing!! (but a bunch of hipsters would be upset that their iPhone no longer worked while they were in line at Starbucks…)

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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:01pm
  Dude…when were you using Apple computers in college…1980′s…well..maybe 1990′s… Apple has had Protected Mode Memory Management since OS X came out in the mid 1990′s….they are actually more stable than a Window’s based PC…one program crash now only shuts down that program…no more Bombs or “unhappy” Mac faces….
  for audio and video editing and processing…the Macs are still the best….there was a rumor once that all the Window’s OS programming is done and tested on Macs then compiled for PCs…Bill Gates even gave an interview in his office once and was asked about why there was a Mac G4 sitting on his desk and he fessed up to the fact that Microsoft programmers use Macs quite a lot to get work done…
  
  Apple products used to be the best quality just slow to market…now they are trying to stay ahead of Samsung and HTC and everyone else and keep rolling out “new” this and that every 6-12 months and then patching it for the next 6-12 months until the next “new” thing comes out…
  
  Dang..sounds like Microsoft…crap…Gates leaves Microsoft…Jobs dies..and the two companies now look and act like one…so much for the ” Pirates of Silicon Valley”….just two companies suffering from self-agrandizement and thinking they were the best for so long they forgot what being the best meant…
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:07pm
  Apple doesn’t really innovate anything. Everything they are known for they copied from other companies. There were MP3 players years before apple created the ipod. There were smart phones years before apple created the iphone. There were tablet computers a decade before apple created the ipad.
  
  They had Steve Jobs who was probably second only to P.T. Barnum as a salesman. As the saying goes he could sell ice to an eskimo. There is a reason apple is starting to tank since jobs died, and it isn’t because their products are worse than they used to be.
  
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- GrumpyCat
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:45pm
  “Sure they may be on the cutting edge of releasing “new” innovated items, but once they are released I usually find a similar product from another mfg. that typically fits my application better than the Apple product…”
  
  Thats the problem Apple faces. No one knows how to make the stuff Apple makes until Apple shows them what is possible.
  
  I have owned AAPL for nearly 14 years. Many Macs. But waited until the iPhone 5. Good stuff.
  
  One thing clones of Apple don’t do very well: last. A new Mac is good for at least 5 years before it falls behind. Businesses lease PC’s for 3 years to roll them out the door when no one wants them.
  
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- forthepeople
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:51pm
  Thank the Lord you are not judged today by what you did or din not do 10 to 15 years ago ?
  Clearly they are doing something right being the Worlds Largest Company !
  
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4xeverything
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:40pm
Almost as funny as the iphone 5…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRBxRlsYR0&feature=player_embedded

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HKS
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:30pm
Computer companies have been playing that game since, well since there has been computers. Generations laid out over time even though the latest technology will not be released for years. MO MONEY.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:21pm
Go Ahead. Pay to have yourself Tracked.

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LOTO
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:19pm
Those aren’t updates. They are sucking your info and usage out.

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