{"id":337,"date":"2007-03-07T07:35:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2007-03-07T07:35:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T15:35:59","slug":"satire-the-apple-ilaunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/satire-the-apple-ilaunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Satire: The Apple iLaunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/59345?&#038;utm_source=digg_1\">From the Onion<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/files\/images\/Apple-Unveils.article.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDescribed in its patent filing as a &#8220;hype-generating mechanism with fully integrated Mac compatibility,&#8221; the iLaunch is powered by Intel dual-core processors optimized to calculate a product&#8217;s gravitas. Apple claims the iLaunch can garner the same amount of press attention as a major scientific discovery, high court ruling, celebrity meltdown, or natural disaster at 200 times the speed of a traditional media-fostered launch.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love my Macs, but sometimes the hype gets a little thick &#8211; it&#8217;s nice to see some good clean fun poked at the bunch from Cupertino from time to time.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nIf you liked this entry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=337&#038;phase=2\">Digg It!<\/a><br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=159790465&#038;s=143441&#038;i=159790880\">Texas Flood<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmievaughan.com\/\">Jimmie Vaughan<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/apple\" rel=\"tag\">Apple<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ilaunch\" rel=\"tag\">iLaunch<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/satire\" rel=\"tag\">Satire<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\">Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Onion&#8230; Described in its patent filing as a &#8220;hype-generating mechanism with fully integrated Mac compatibility,&#8221; the iLaunch is powered by Intel dual-core processors optimized to calculate a product&#8217;s gravitas. Apple claims the iLaunch can garner the same amount of press attention as a major scientific discovery, high court ruling, celebrity meltdown, or natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}