Leer Jet

Steve Jobs may only get a salary of $1 per year, but his stock options and bonuses more than make up for his less-than-minimum wages.   To show their appreciation for Jobs bringing the company back to life, Apple gave Steve a $90M Gulfstream V private jet!  The only thing it was missing was that giant novelty bow on the top of all the expensive gift cars in the Lexus commercials.  Saturday Night Live did a spoof of the commercial, in which they were selling the giant bows to add the finishing touches to the gift cars.  So this cartoon is a spoof of a goof of a poof on a roof.  Moof.

Résumé

Apple's iTools offers Mac users free disk space, e-mail, and a personal web site to share with the world.  You can use it to post a photo album, share files, and even showcase your résumé.  Even Steve Jobs has taken advantage of this free service.  His impressive résumé summarizes Jobs's entrepreneurial history, including his fledgling startup company, NeXT Software Inc.  Maybe that bastard redheaded stepchild of a company is marring his otherwise enviable reputation.  Why else would he have not been offered a new job yet?

Chiat Daze

As spoken by Richard Dreyfuss in Apple's Think Different ad campaign: 

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or villify them...about the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things, they push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." 

What's that Albert Einstein and Bob Dylan are smoking? Probably something different. 

In memory of Jay Chiat, cofounder of Apple's longtime ad agency, Chiat/Day, who passed away on April 23, 2002

Menagerie

Apple has been incorporating music and videos by the band Barenaked Ladies since their music video The Old Apartment from their album Born On A Pirate Ship was included as a QuickTime sample on the Mac OS 8 System Install CD.  BNL have also contributed to the included playlist bundled with iTunes, and have even appeared in Apple's iTunes television commercial Rip.Mix.Burn.  Just how Apple has managed to wrangle so many songs from BNL remains a mystery, but I'm guessing they are favorites from Steve Jobs's personal collection.

Rejects, Part 2

 

Apple may have abandoned their fun color schemes, and the CRT iMac all together.  But we at Macboy have managed to uncover some more of the unique iMac themes that never made it to market.  For some reason Lime prevailed as the zestiest citrus flavor—apparently no one wanted a Lemon for a computer.  And people preferred their pure Snow iMacs before Blue Dalmations—obviously a cuddlier breed than the proposed Pitbull—marked their territory in iMac history.  And while Beige may no longer be a color in the spectrum of Apple's rainbow, it will always be in our hearts.