It looks like Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has a friend or two at Apple. The Colbert Report host and comedian pulled out his iPhone 5s on air last night to check the status of his iPhone 6 delivery only to realize he had an iPhone 6 Plus in his pocket.
Like Conan’s iPhone skit, Colbert couldn’t avoid poking fun at Apple’s rather unpopular U2 album promotion that warranted its own removal tool (available here) named after the free record.
And like a lot of us today, Colbert threw the iPhone 5s out of sight after picking up the larger display iPhone 6. The scene goes on to laugh about a new app called Checky that tells you how many times you check your phone each day. The app is real, it’s free, and it’s probably going to skyrocket this weekend as the new iPhones hit the stores.
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It got real at the end
WTF? Did you guys actually paste a FLASH link on your site? Are you serious?
Take it down, even if you can’t find an alternative. You’re spitting in the face of your readership.
How?
Why? Because the venerable Steve Jobs told us that flash is bad? Some of us are actually capable of thinking for ourselves. 9to5 has no control over how the video is delivered.
Steve Jobs? Who cares. I don’t install Flash on my systems precisely because I think. If you’ve got it installed, good for you, but I’d hardly call that an educated decision.
9t05 has the choice of whether or not to imbed a flash video or not. If no alternative is available then don’t imbed. Simple.
by the way Bruno, it’s embed*. Simple.
Option 1: embed it with flash so someone people can view it on their desktops
Option 2: dont provide a video at all so no one can view it.
How is option 2 better?
Download the Safari extension Click2Flash. It converts almost all instances of Flash video into HTML5 video. And when it can’t it gives you choice to let the Flash load at all or not. There, problem solved.
Not only Flash, but unavailable outside of the poor, tiny USA.
Everyone at Comedy Central should be burned at the stake and have their remains ground up for fertiliser.
I watched it just fine in Japan, where are you?
I wonder how much Colbert was paid?
Did Apple write his script or did his staff?
Which is it, 6 or 6 Plus?