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A Call to Arms

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On the heels of their shameless self-dealing buyback, Apple had a product event on Tuesday. Unlike 2007, when Steve Jobs completely changed the world with a revolutionary new product (the original iPhone), these days their products are only marginally-slightly-better rehashes of the old stuff. What struck me as odd is that the people ALL have the exact same gesture, which is waving their arms in front of themselves in a manner so unnatural and off-putting them it distracts from the message. It was effortless for me to take these screen shots…………….

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