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Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store

Posted by timothy on from the city-named-after-a-delicious-sandwich dept.

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."

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  1. Re:MIT? by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Informative

    This. MIT students have a long and storied history of similar pranks.

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  2. Once Every Few Years by The+O+Rly+Factor · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:They got the colours wrong. by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes, the same Apple that is behind Darwin, WebKit, Bonjour, and countless other open source projects. Don't get me wrong, their iOS devices are a nightmare in this aspect, but OS X is a very open platform.