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Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store
theodp writes "Working calmly in broad daylight and filming their efforts for YouTube posterity, a fake construction crew attached a large Microsoft Windows logo to the black facade of a soon-to-open Hamburg Apple Store. Neat hack in the MIT vein, but next time the crew might want to take along a pic of the Windows logo — with the adrenaline flowing, some of the colors got rearranged and were hung upside down."
reminds me of the time Michael Sims pranked Rob Malda by cutting off his balls! That was fucking hilarious!
WTF is with the MIT link?
... to see hilarity in this?
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That is pretty funny, although they did use a screwdriver to put up the pieces.
Vandals or not, Apple just got served
Should have at least done it properly.
A giant Tux would have been better.
What? They didn't include the video when, 20 minutes later the whole black facade turned blue with cryptic text all over it?
Let's see Banksy top this one!
Had it been a penguin, then it would have been funny...
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No you just don't have to be a faggot fuck, I guess you don't think it's funny do ya faggot fuck?
So, you UK folks just curious...
Faggots are slang for cigarettes in your neck of the woods, yes? So, do you read the above post as:
"No you just don't have to be a cigarette shag, I guess you don't think it's funny do ya cigarette shag?"
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I doubt MS paid a cent for this. Its like when people put those Apple stickers they get in an iPod/Phone on things. Its not done because Apple paid them to do it. In fact, these people may very well have done this in a counter-culture-ish move of those Apple stickers. Or it could have been some people doing something randomish like a flash mob, or even Apple-haters.
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Screw upside-down. The whole logo is in reflection horizontally, then rotated pi/2.
Side note: why does /. not support Greek symbols?
That's a feature.
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If only they did it multi layerd..
as each layer was peeled off on the fascade..multiple prompts to surface...
Are you sure you want take this logo down?
This type of application can harm your computer...
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"It's the opposite of that."
How else is the plucky underdog Microsoft going to compete with the Juggernaut that is Apple, Inc.?
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Microsoft pays someone to go do a PR prank like this. Remember when they paid a crew to drop a giant Internet Explorer logo on the front lawn of Mozilla's campus?
Frankly, a company with the corporate culture like Microsoft's pulling stunts like this puts an image in my head of creepy late 30's to early 40's guys pretending like they're in a college frat again.
I bet that if it were in the USA (or UK...) the pranksters would be sent to jail for a few days, perhaps even on the pretext of a possible terrorist threat.
It's just a prank in my book, didn't damage anything, doesn't change the fact that Apple is building a store there, not Microsoft.
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Side note: why does /. not support Greek symbols?
Slashdot uses a character whitelist because of past abuses of Unicode bidirectionality control characters. (Google site:slashdot.org erocs for details.) Greek isn't in the whitelist because Slashdot is in English, which is written in Latin, not Greek.
Or maybe you could just say "transposed" or "reflected across the main diagonal".
I think it's funny. I bet Woz does too.
It's not funny enough to piss off the fan boys.
Are you mad?
This is a slight to Apple. Apple has no problem with traditional linux, they have a problem with Microsoft. Therefore, linux geek or not, Microsoft would be the appropriate symbol to paste on an Apple store to get a reaction from their fanbase (Google would probably work also, but not Tux).
Who in their right mind would even try that in broad daylight, if it wasn't legitimate?
Beautiful piece of mischief.
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Since they are Apple's viral marketing team they can't use the Windows logo so they use a knock off. Notice in the article they don't mention it is the Windows logo.
This:
* Ensure that plenty of locals visit the store when it opens. "Hey, isn't this the store that had that wacky prank happen to them a few weeks back? We should go see if there have been any other shenanigans there within the last couple of days."
* Subliminal reminder that Apple can now run Windows if you use Boot Camp.
* It generally makes Windows users look desperate to Apple users, "Wow, they had to deface a store to feel better about their choice in OS". At the same time, it makes Windows users look funny and creative to other Windows users, "Haha! Stupid Apple store. This'll teach 'em! They're going to be so mad when they realize what we did!".
I'll say this, I didn't know they were opening a new store in Germany but I sure as hell know now.
Mac's can run Windows right? The opposite would more insulting I think in that OS X doesn't (at least not legally) run on non-Mac hardware. Perhaps find a vendor that has abandoned linux as a factory install option and rub it in that there is yet another OS that they are denying you :-)
I wondered: did they put the colours wrongly for plausible deniability? "Hey, this isn't the Windoze logo. It is a panel of basic colours!"
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Pfft. Do it with a giant picture of Tux and THEN you can be cool!
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Why would anyone do thIs? I guess just don't understand why windows fanboys exist. Why be a fan of some company's product?
I can see some people being fanboys of apple because of what they represented in the past, or being a fan of their quirkiness, or finding S. Jobs charismatic. I can see being an OSS fanboy because of personal involvement or maybe you see it as rebellious. With Windows, where is the lustful attraction it takes to be a fanboy?
I was a big fan of win2k on the desktop. Really happy with MS. This was the first time I felt I had a stable system, DOS was gone, I could change network settings without rebooting, everything got a billion times better compared to Win9x. I had a great opinion of it all at the time. I didn't feel such an attachment that I wanted to defend or advocate on behalf of MS, though.
I just place all "Designed for Windows" stickers that I find onto dumpsters and trash bins of various capacity. Does it mean that my sense of humor is far superior to those pranksters (not to mention that I make a valid statement)?
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So fun to mess with.
They would have found out that there weren't any screwDRIVERS that would work with the screws provided and this entire project would have never booted.
not even close, but then again, they might be german after all .8}
Obviously not a windows fan boy among them, otherwise someone might have clued that the logo was wrong.
Also no engineers as there was no marking, this panel "top right"
If you wanted to do the obscure, only geeks will understand, kind of joke the BSD devil would have been the things to do. Apple grabbed a lot of BSD code as the foundation of OS-X as such there would be a geek significance to that logo on their store.
However, as you say, nobody would get it. The power in this joke is MS is seen as Apple's principal rival and everyone knows their logo. It was a joke anyone could get.
Analog Bootcamp
with the adrenaline flowing, some of the colors got rearranged and were hung upside down.
Nah, they just didn't want to get a nastygram from both Apple AND Microsoft.
Your brain is not a computer.
They have a crew of turfers too.
I find those guys very creepy.
Remember when /. used to be first with news like this?
This story was in yesterday's news cycle. Doesn't make it less funny, though.
Let's play Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I'll be Pestilence.
MS annoys Mac hardly seems to qualify as front-page material. MS can't even be said to have spaghetti code... it's more like swiss cheese. Apple might be a closed ecosystem, but at least it doesn't send your credit card information home every five minutes, (in an unblockable fashion). Unless the prank backfired in a BSOD, this shouldn't really be on the front page.
I have one on my toilet
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Need a rubber bumper to cover it up
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This is like yelling profanity about the mother of the guy who just threw you off the roof. A despairing, thick-witted, hopeless gesture. The ironic thing is Microsoft wouldn't know how to open a store without copying Apple to save their lives. This prank is embarrassing for Microsoft, but less embarrassing than opening a Microsoft store which remains devoid of customers, so the prank is relatively successful.
Prank or vandalism?
I'd have to vote for vandals if they used spraypaint, etc.
As a prank, it could have been done with a removable substance (chalk, water-soluble paint, whatever), but if it's a permanent (well, as permanent as regular spraypaint is) substance then it's a bit beyond prank level.
It looked like an incorrectly applied windows logo, but it was just a logo which resembled the windows logo. That's the fun part of it. Even better if they did it without purpose. Great!
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Who TF puts up Windows logos? People paid by Microsoft, that's who.
In a ship an upside down flag is a sign of distress, normally used when there's a contagious disease aboard.
I gave one look at those guys and said "What a sad looking crew, where is your PPE?"
No fall arrest, no hording, no traffic/pedestrial controls. No hard hats, and are those vests even tear-away?
I have to say the Ministry of Labour would be all over those guys in a minute.
A Microsoft logo on an Apple building...
It's also a little bit like the version of Microsoft Windows 7 that most of the buyers will either boot-camp or virtualize into their fresh Mac hardware, in order to be still able to run the most widespread applications.
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I don't get it. So they replaced one greedy corporate logo with another greedy corporate logo. Replacing the corporate logo with something that makes a social or political statement would be noteworthy. If you're going to get in trouble for something it should be worth it.
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Naa, its an upgrade. Mac is only useful for graphics, video and audio. If you are using it for anything else, it is because you don't understand that it isn't useful.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Cunt is not an appropriate word to use...but the AC using "faggot" to disapprove of someones post....would be considered a cunt most certainly in the UK. Thoughts?
Sometimes I forget that there are genuine Microsoft Windows Fanboys here on slashdot. Since I dared to suggest that their OS of choice is crap, they quickly responded by down moderating my post that suggested that.
Although of course, for some people, stability isn't that important. I don't understand how those people function in reality, but they clearly exist.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I think a Android logo would have been better!
I am speaking from experience, no fanboy here. I deal with around 20 Macs, 50 Windows, and 1000 Linux machines. I have to fix issues daily with most of these, and Windows is just easier. I am actually typing this on a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard with all the latest patches.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
for a penguin
I was not accusing you specifically of being a windows fanboy, rather I am pointing out that windows fanboys downmoderated my original comment in this discussion.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Where is the picture?
I would have modded it funny, it was a good joke.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?