October 13, 2007

Fanboy

Reasons to love Apple despite their various well-documented failings, #807:

homepage congratulations to Al Gore on his Nobel Peace Prize
Posted by matt at October 13, 2007 01:39 AM

Comments

They're just sucking up - he's on their board of directors.

Posted by: ryan at October 15, 2007 11:40 PM

Don't be tiresome, Ryan. I'm well aware of Gore's seat on the board. But he did win the Nobel Prize.

This congratulation is not sucking up -- at least, not to Gore, who isn't the intended audience. This is PR, and what's interesting is how Apple chooses to appeal to its customers. I'm not suggesting there is nothing cynical going on, but whatever evil calculations may have fed into this, the result is still a good one from where I'm sitting.

Posted by: matt at October 16, 2007 09:08 AM

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