A great prank…[...] Thanks to kazzyD for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 1240 Diggs).
What other user say about this:
stepnw1f: Why do Apple bashers go out of their way to complain about products they supposedly don’t like or buy? Jealousy(if so, that’s pathetic)? Are you guys paid to do this shit to drive down sales of Apple products (for say a competitor like, Microsoft), or does Apple really get under your skin that much. Either way, get a fucking life.
DeathfireD: why do you need a DNS server just edit your HOSTS file on the PC you want to punk your co worker with.
charmides: Ya my prank was pretty juvenile and involved throwing a few balloons at the people waiting outside the store today.
Update on that one is that 2 cops came to my house and almost took me to jail for ASSAULT .
No seriously they did and then supposedly the guy had a change of heart and they “let me off” with a bogus exhibition of acceleration charge and failure to signal when i left the parking lot both of which are untrue…I SHOULDA just made a fake website huh?
ArkZero: Awesome prank very funny.
Hawkeye199: thats very cruel, still funny as hell tho. Bless him
Surefly: People still use ‘punk’ as a verb?
fmorel90: This made by day. That was so horribly cruel (yet funny). At least he doesn’t have to pay a plane ticket as well as the iPhone..he can buy two instead.
FrantiX: We use to do this kind of thing at one of my jobs as well but we didn’t have access to the main server so we created a script or modified policies to point them to a test server we did have access to.
AND for the Apple crowd, get over it… It’s a lot of fun for people that are passionate or obsessive about ANY thing. Football season and injuries for the fantasy league are always a fun one.
nycmac247: Jesus Christ _- I am an Apple fanboy (who used to work at apple for several years) and STILL thought this was totally fucking funny!!! LOL!!!!
Kinjiru: Ahh now that was truly Priceless!
theantix: That’s much too complicated — a simple IM or in-person remark saying “Oh wow, I can’t believe they delayed the iPhone release so near the release” was good enough to make some of my rabid apple loving fans and coworkers hyperventilate earlier this week.
Hardcase: Apparently Joomla is the new WordPress. Melted.
merrickx: “biggest release since the iPod itself. “
Hardly anyone knew what the hell the iPod was until like 2 or 3 years after it was released.
petemcfraser: Cruelty + Technology = Awesome Prank!
diggerphelps: This will not work with a real Apple fanboy.
Real Apple Fanboys (RAF(tm)) will follow macnn or appleinsider for news, NOT the local newspaper website.
RAF will also have already bookmarked and checked http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/ and will keep checking it every hour on the hour for every store in a 300 mile radius.
