Viral Video: Ouch!–Apple Gets Smacked Hard by Jon Stewart

Here’s a video that is sure to go rocketing around the Web today: A smackdown by Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” of Apple for its behavior related to the stolen iPhone 4G prototype.

It’s titled: “Appholes.”

That’s gotta hurt.

There’s not much more to be said than Stewart does in a tough attack on the recent door-bashing police raid of a reporter from Gizmodo, which bought the smartphone from the person who allegedly found it in a German beer garden in Silicon Valley.

Stewart began the opening monologue by saying he was a huge fan of Apple (AAPL) and its products, but soon was lacing into the company and blaming it for the messy legal morass.

There are a ton of great lines, although it’s the easiest jibe at iPhone wireless carrier AT&T (T) that is still the funniest: “If you want to break down someone’s door, why don’t you start with AT&T, for God sakes? They make your amazing phone unusable as a phone!”

He ended with a plea to CEO Steve Jobs: “C’mon, Steve, just chill out with all the paranoid corporate genius stuff. Don’t go Howard Hughes on us.”

Then, of course, Stewart asked for Jobs to send him the new 4G: “It looks totally sick.”

Enough said, here’s the video:

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Appholes

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Anonymous

Yeah. Damaging. A ten minute Apple commercial with the last comment being, “By the way, could you sent me the new iPhone…it looks totally sick.”

Oh, and by the way, can I get a new iPhone for posting this comment? Cause I want one too.
restreet

What is sick is that comedians make news.
restreet

What is sick is that comedians make the news. People who will say anything for a laugh are not the best sources of information or opinion.
techtrader10

Funny bit, kind of hits home, Apple is no longer the rebel
res08hao

Jon Stewart is watched by losers who live with their parents
or leftists who love Obama. Sound familiar?
robertlabblah

I trust the comedians much more than most other 'sources'…that is why Kara is so cool. She is smart AND funny!
robertlabblah

Still think someone at Apphole was trying to make a buck or show off.

I've worked with secret unreleased products for many years…very very hard to believe this was an accident.

BTW – Jobs/Howard Hughes…smashing doors contrasted with Gates saving lives…that is indeed very funny stuff!
http://www.swift2.blogspot.com Swift2

I'm a big fan of Jon Stewart. His former rants on CNN Crossfire, and FOX, and so on, have been great. But he's just got this one wrong. This is not some kind of “Soup Nazi” fascism on Jobs's part, this is, literally, theft. And they knew it.

Know what this reminds me of? The hackers who broke into the climate center's computer in England, and then went through the e-mails, deliberately misinterpreted the climate science within, and still have not faced justice for their break-in.

This is how tabloid journalism works: they will break the law, if they need be, because they're on their sleazy little “crusades.” Just because the Enquirer was right that John Edwards was a scumbag doesn't mean they're right about a single other thing.

In this case, Gawker wanted to “prove” that Jobs isn't one of the most important CEOs since Edison or Ford, but just some jerk with somebody else's liver. And then get patted on the back. They announced they would pay bounties for prototypes earlier. So they got one. That's a felony, boys.

Viral Video: Ouch!–Apple Gets Smacked Hard by Jon Stewart

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