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Jon Stewart on the Lost Next-Generation iPhone

Thursday April 29, 2010 11:21 am PDT by Eric Slivka

Jon Stewart, host of the comedy news show The Daily Show, offered an extended segment on yesterday's show addressing the ongoing saga of the lost next-generation iPhone that was acquired by Gizmodo. The clip has been receiving a fair bit of attention today due to the show's popularity and Stewart's angle on the story taking Apple to task for its role in events.

Stewart's monologue, which kicked off the show, highlights many of the key events in the story thus far and sees Stewart professing his love for Apple gadgets but directly addressing Apple CEO Steve Jobs with his fears that Apple is becoming "The Man" in a reversal of the company's landmark '1984' commercial that introduced the Macintosh. Stewart draws a comparison to the reclusive Howard Hughes, suggesting that Jobs could be heading down the same road with the "paranoid corporate genius stuff" that saw Hughes engage in increasingly bizarre behavior. And unsurprisingly, Stewart also takes the opportunity to deliver a rant at AT&T's service, a popular target of discontent for iPhone owners.
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macfan881
23 months ago
ModNote: Click to jump to the Macrumors.com News story post. --mkrishnan

Pretty Cool Segment Jon did ill post the video as soon as i can when its online jon was talking how much of a Fanboy he is for apple pulling out a iPhone Mabook ipad etc then talks about the whole situation and saying how apple needs to go back to the 1984 style mac then does a lil bash with apple should be bashing the door down on AT&T for crappy new york coverage funny segment from jon tonight
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jav6454
23 months ago
Bound to happen, it's a miracle Colbert didn't make fun of the situation also.
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MacReloaded
23 months ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHoROkHhQ4
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designgeek
23 months ago
"Go after AT&T, they make your phone unusable as a phone."
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nickali
23 months ago
Not usually a Jon fan but I did catch that piece on tv and it was quite funny with just enough truth to it. :D
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koobcamuk
23 months ago
http://tv.gawker.com/5526868/jon-stewart-slams-apple-over-its-handling-of-gizmodo-case

I think it's brilliant. I am off Apple in a big way at the moment.
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Bocaj
23 months ago

Bound to happen, it's a miracle Colbert didn't make fun of the situation also.


Probably because they sent him an iPad for free, so he has to be nice.
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maflynn
23 months ago
He kind of hit the nail on the head with that diatribe. I especially liked the 1984 big brother reference. Quite appropriate as apple has been acting more like big brother and less "thinking different"
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migsev
23 months ago
Here's hoping Apple actually does something about this.
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Cave Man
23 months ago
Anyone see it last night? First segment on the Gizmodo report:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-april-28-2010-ken-blackwell
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