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Tiger Woods Signs Deal To Be Apple Spokeperson
varmittang writes "Tiger Woods has signed a long-term deal with Apple Computers as Mac OS X 'Tiger' spokesperson. He's apparently trying to align himself with the 'best brands' in each market, and Apple just seemed like the right pick." From the article: "Tiger Woods and Apple Computer is the perfect marriage, with both of us striving to be the best. With OS X, Apple is the industry innovator in operating systems and our 'Tiger+Tiger' partnership help tell the world about the benefits of using Mac OS X...Others are now following OS X's taillights, and 'Tiger+Tiger' will make it even harder for them to ever catch up."
the deal with Tony the Tiger didn't pan out.
CLIT POWER
Now you're just not trying.
April Fools, bitches!
Too bad this news isn't real (or is it???). Apple's market share could double, to an astounding 6%!
Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997.
Well, since I work for the "Go on, be a Tiger" company already, and I used Macs at home, I suppose this means I'd better start golfing. That way, I can get the trifecta of Tiger advertising influence.
Do not touch -Willie
We will see a port of Tiger Woods PGA Tour?
All of the others were "given" jokes. If OS X Tiger wasn't coming out VERY soon, I would have dismissed this in an instant... instead of 35 seconds. Very clever.
Please tell me that this is YAAF (Yet Another April Fool's) post.
So what if this is a near-FP. I don't care about FPs or Karma.
Have a nice day!
--ScottKin
I don't give a rat's behind about "karma" here or anywhere else. Don't like what I have to say here? Deal with it!
tiger + tiger
-or-
tiger^2
I think this is important, as it's plain to see that tiger^2 would yield a much more powerful result
No, I don't care either...
'mmmmmmmmm.... forbidden donut'
Keep telling each other that "April 2nd will be here soon."
It's Tiger+Tiger+Tiger:
...and don't forget Java 2 1.5/5.0, which will make its first appearance on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger[2], is also codenamed Tiger!
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Tiger Woods[1]
[1] Yes, I realize this is an April Fool's joke. Duh.
[2] Yes, it will be an additional install. And no, Mac OS X isn't a second rate Java platform; it's just that Mac OS X isn't one of Sun's Tier 1 platforms for which it develops Java itself. Apple has no choice but to wait for certain milestones to be reached, and then essentially port various releases of Java to Mac OS X. This process takes time.
That's right in line with him promoting that hideous Buick...
Hey Tiger, quit trying to be white, no one's buying it.
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at first i though, you've got to be kidding me. he was the spokesperson for the company i just left, and i wanted to distance myself from them as much as i could.
i'm so glad its april fool's day.
News for Nerds..Stuff that's...not...real...
The first one to have a baby named LongHorn will be endorsed by Microsoft and be paid millions! So if your wife (or *cough*) is pregnant and is due in several months, you might wanna reconsider naming your child robert, david, john, or something else generic like that.
Name him LongHorn!
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When I first read this it seemed like hollow marketing hype. Then I remembered Tiger's renowned driver skills.
Man, I made myself groan with that one.
-Peter
Maybe.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
just for my trusty 360/40 here keeping the house warm. man, look at that electical meter spin...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Yes, because we know that Buick makes the best cars in the world.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Microsoft to partner with Krusty the Clown?
The Machine stops.
Fuck this shit. This is so old and gay. Fuck you taco. you faggot. no one reads this shit. I'm sitting here this crap, and within one second, paris hilton spokesperson for Linux? Hahaha. good one. You fat disgusting great cowboy neal hippy fat fucks DONT HAVE MONEY, so how the fuck would you even PAY for Hilton? (even though she is a cheap whore-off slut.) Fuck off Slashdot. I wish only that say Fark had threaded messages or K5 was less of a communist stronghold for soap-boxing communists (Even Jon Katz and other Flaming Communists here can't be the Euro-Trashery over at K5).
Terri Shiavo euthanized, Pope is dying, Oil supplies are fluctuating causing prices to rise, and here is FUCKING TACO and his ASSBANDIT band of fuckers talking all this lame stupid SHIT.
FUCK YOU.
NOT FUNNY (TM).
I can't wait till we go back to dupes and typos again.
I hate april 1st. Worst day of the year.
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[tiger woods]: The new Apple Tiger, it's Grrreeeeaaaat!!!
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Ya ya... I should lighten up, I know.
I always save my last mod point to mod up a good troll. You people are too serious.
"The first one to have a baby named LongHorn will be endorsed by Microsoft and be paid millions!"
Some guy in the Porn industry is making millions with that name.
Tiger Woods promoting OS X and Paris Hilton promoting Linux? Could someone please hack into these two April Fools stories and swap the names? I'd much rather have Paris Hilton promoting OS X.
I am so smart!
I am so smart!
S-M-R-T!
I mean S-M-A-R-T!
http://technocrat.net/
This was moderately amusing, and then I noticed the byline: the article author is none other than Sid Finch. Sid Finch has moved from into a new phase in his career. First it was French Horn, then Tibetian monk, then Baseba^H^H^H^H^SteriodBall's hotest pitching prospect, now it's journalist. Read more here
the only thing that I'd like to see id Tiger T-off whacking a G5 300+ yds up the fairway. followed by a few iPods, a couple of Mac Minis, and definately some of the old iMacs... Then I'd like to see the Penguin come out, shake his hand and watch them frolic into the sunset, heading off to burn Bill Gates' house down...
Um. compare that picture of Woods with an Apple logo'd hat with this picture. Stupid April 1...
Trolling is a art,
Wonda, wonda, wonda, wonda!
It's definitely another April Fools post. Just look at the name of the author of the article, Siddhartha Finch. For those that don't know, perhaps the most famous April Fools article appeared in Sports Illustrated 20 years ago. In fact, there was an article about it today in the NY Times (free reg required; yada yada yada).
AnimeNEXT anime convention
...they'll post a real story and shock everyone. Seriously, /., Jokes on April fools' day are ONLY VALID UNTIL MIDDAY. Please get a frigging clue.
Sorry, guys, but this is getting real old, real fast. Unless the whole joke is pissing your users off with fake stories so you can say "Ha! Pissed you off!"
Resistance is futile. Reactance buggers it up.
after midday? Actually where I am it's April 2 already, so this is getting really annoying for me.
I have a solution but you're not going to like it. (Something I say far too forten to my boss)
"Others are now following OS X's taillights, and 'Tiger+Tiger' will make it even harder for them to ever catch up."
Yes, all those other companies selling operating systems for Apple computers have no chance to survive make their time NOW!
If this is an April Fool's joke, it's the worst ever.
It's not outrageous or funny: it's reasonable. It's basically just a stupid lie. The kind a five year old would tell.
what comment
"Tiger Woods and Apple Computer is the perfect marriage, with both of us striving to be the best."
Speaking as a Business Major, it always amazes me to what levels of mindless drivel we can achieve to market a product without even the remotest feeling of embarrassment.
wow! that's two tigers for the price of one!! can today get any better??
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
Do Beat Horse Until Horse is Not Dead
So Accenture and Apple are the best brands????
but only to sweep the floors
because it will be a cold day in hell if a black executive was elected to the board
Would be Siegfried & Roy?
Evil sig is livE.
In other news, Apple has terminated the contract of the Pink Panther citing he just wasn't hip and cool anymore.
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Why is everyone biatching about the April Fools stuff? It sure beats reading the real news out there. Have some fun and lighten up, you'll live longer.
Steve gives Tiger a blowjob, camera focuses on his face, then Steve goes: Grrrrreeeaaattt!
In other news, famed actor Milt Longhorne has been signed up to be the spokesperson for the new Windows Longhorn operating system. Microsoft spokespeople said that Milt's popularity with the older generation would help to solidify Microsoft's place in the senior citizens' homes.
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...burning bright
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
It's the land of the brave, and the home of the free
Where the less you know, the better off you'll be.
I understand that when a joke is explained it isn't funny any more. That's OK, I don't mind. I just want to understand at an intellectual level why this is supposed to be funny.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
I come here for a good taste of geek news, and although it is indeed april 1st, that doesn't mean we should scrap each and every news story. Slashdot isn't just "some place" for geeks to stand around and pat each other one the back for, but also a news source.
How would we feel if CNN decided to spend the entire day fabricating each and every one of their stories? Credibility would go down and people would become annoyed that the station didn't choose to grow up (per say) and continue with their real job after the first joke was all said and done.
Come on editors, get some real news so we can get back to our day to day lives and see what actually IS happeing today.
you think you can clerly distinguish btw real and fake. you think you are "really" in control of your life. there are no facts... only beliefs...
Apple hires DVD Jon. First of April folks...:-D http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/showstory.jsp ?storyid=66795/
...they're forming a Tiger Team.
*ducks from hail of thrown objects*
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April 1st and all.
And not even a good one either. I mean common, only one of the two is well respected and liked.
He's apparently trying to align himself with the 'best brands' in each market.
Riiight, that must be what led him to endorse Buick. Not the 8-figure contract.
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
What will Tiger Woods do when OS X 10.5 Lion comes out? Change his name or see himself relegated to the dustbin of advertising?
"Tiger+Tiger, burning bright
A new OS, Mac addict's delight!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
He picked the best one there, for sure.
Tiger + Tiger, burning bright,
like a Photo iPod in the night,
what graphic designer's hand or eye,
dare pixellate thy symmetry.
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I guess since GM may be whacking Buick, Tiger needs to find some other product to annoy us with. Frankly, I don't know why everyone holds Tiger in such high esteem. In my opinion, he has had it way too easy since most of his golf competition are nearing retirement. Get a real job Tiger!
Just once, I would like to read real news on April 1st. :/ Some joke articles are fine (I like the "10.4 Tiger renamed 10.4 Wombat" over on Ranchero), but it's starting to get old. Either that or I'm a real curmudgeon.
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Awwww! Gimme a break!
What is it with slashdot on April 1st. ?
Most normal news papers/websites have one spoof story that is well crafted and (sometimes) actually funny.
But here in slashworld, we get this kind-of almost autistic, semi-spastic, quasi-tourettish bunch humorless geeks trying to be "funny" and only succeeding in being boring and painfully unfunny.
The repetition is fast and furious - and any actual humor goes over the heads of most slashdoters.
How many BSOD jokes can you make before it's not funny?
How many Beowulf cluster jokes can you make before it's not funny?
How many 1.. 2.. 3.. Profit jokes can you make before it's not funny?
IT'S NOT FUNNY!
So give it a rest for fuck's sake!
Isn't Tiger on his way out? Wouldn't more Zing with Singh be a better choice?
Apple unveils new programming language for Mac OS Tiger...tiger++;
Sayeth the author:
today we are proud to announce the immediate availability of Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 2005 for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger." With Apple now bundling Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 2005 free with every new Macintosh. . .
Apple would NEVER allow a product announcement like this - especially so close to the next WWDC. I will grant though that using the subjects' canned press release endings at the end was a nice touch.
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
Claiming tortious interference with an existing business relationship, General Mills has filed suit to block the MS-Chocula deal.
"The Count has been an integral part of our GM team for 34 years. Any money sucking he will be doing will be into General Mills' coffers, not some two-bit meat packing company", apparently referring to the upcoming Longhorn release of Microsoft's flagship product. "We look forward to maintaining the productive relationship between the Count and worldwide youth for many years to come.", according to an unsigned press release from General Mills.
Microsoft spokespeople had no official comment on the suit. Well-connected individuals, speaking anonymously, claimed that a contingency plan, seeking to enlist the services of Count Dracula, has already been put into effect, claiming "Microsoft can make do with pretty much any kind of sucker." One snag in the plan has been the inability of the Count's legal and marketing representatives to make contact with their client, as his last known address has been the subject of considerable debate.
{boy,oh, boy, way too much free time today...}
It seems to me that now that Tiger is LOSING all them time, him and Macintosh are the perfect partners! Two former greats, now also rans....Together.
Because today, anything can happen!
Kellog exec joins Apple
So will Tiger(Woods) be featured praising Tiger(OSX) on Tiger(direct.com)? Of course the version of Tiger that Tiger would be selling, using Tiger's namesake would have to be...
ouch
My head just *twitch* Tiger *twitch* errr exploded.
I'm too lazy to enter a sig. Hey wait a second! You tricked me!
hey guys, since it's being going on about april fools jokes i thought you might find this funny . i woke up very early after not vey much sleep. i think it was 6am or so. after a 30 minutes discussion on the phone while waking up with a coffee and being ready to get news from my agent, i saw myself being caught by this apple iThong mini story. damn fool me! ;)
http://www.brandinfection.com/2005/04/01/whats-nex t-apple-computer/
greets, stefano
I work for ETW, and I can confirm officially that this story is not true. This is the first time visiting this (non-)news site, and this place is ridiculous. Tiger Woods has not signed a contract with Apple. You can stop calling our offices to ask us about it. We will be looking into our legal options.
I mean if you suspend disbelieve for a moment what part of the item as posted could not be part of an actual press release by a marketing type?
Lets face it the way Tiger is playing right now, this would guarantee the product was at least occasionally pushed right. :-(
Squirrel!
Fill in the rest of the damn poem yourself.
Don't mod me, I'm a fscking anonymous coward...
""He's apparently trying to align himself with the 'best brands' in each market"" LIKE BUICK? Those steel pieces of horseshit on wheels are definitely the best brand out there.
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the bunker on the right,
What immortal hand or eye
Could beat thy par minus three?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart,
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
He can add Java 1.5/J2SE5.0 or whatever they're calling it this week, and that'll be Tiger+Tiger+Tiger!
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
Must have sat down on a cold toilet seat covered in KY on some April 1 in their lives...
lighten up kids!
Would the proper syntax be "tiger++"
No good deed goes unpunished.
This is the greatest thing to come to the Apple platform since sliced cheese. I also heard a rumor that Apple is collaborating with Tiger to create a golf came, to be included in the next version of OSX, codenamed Woods.
Sagat, of Street Fighter II fame, to be a new spokesperson. When asked for comment, Steve Jobs said, "Everytime he says TIGER, he shoots a fireball from his hands! Come on, how friggin' cool is that? And let's not forget about the TIIIIGEER UPPERCUT!!"
When asked why he quit his old job under M. Bison to work for a new company, Sagat said, "M. Bison wasn't paying me enough. I didn't even have medical!"
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