Peter Kafka

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Hey! Famous People Like Apple, Too!

You feel a little funny talking at your Siri. But you shouldn’t, because Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson do it:

Okay. So maybe you still feel a little funny, and/or like a self-parody. But an Apple ad is an Apple ad, so we will dutifully catalog it here.

As many people who catalog Apple ads have noted, this is the first time that Apple has used a celebrity in one of its campaigns for a very long time. The last one that the hivemind can recall: Jeff Goldblum hawking the original candy-colored iMac, back in the late 90s — way back when Apple was still pretty much a niche company:


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I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts … [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.

— HBO programming president Michael Lombardo, talking to Entertainment Weekly about the “rampant” piracy of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”