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Art, art, art... Why can't they show programmers in an ad for once? Apple you can come film me at any time.

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INT. VOID_'S ROOM - DAY

CLOSEUP OF FINGERS TYPING

VOID_0 I love Macs because they have the unix core, so you can compile anything written for linux servers natively without using a virtual machine.

CLOSEUP OF CODE BEING TYPED

CLOSEUP OF TERMINAL COMPILING CODE

VOID_0 So yeah, that's pretty neat I guess. I mean it's not that flashy or anything, I'm really just using it as a fancy text editor. The build quality of these things is pretty good. All my friends are doing the same thing on cheaper linux computers, but I don't like those as much.

Awesome, Hollywood is waiting for you.

Bonus points if they use the shell theme from Tron: Legacy.

The first 20 seconds of the ad features John Maeda, who is a programmer, and there are a number of other programmers featured in the ad and on the timeline: Theodore Gray, John Knoll, Craig Hickman, Rand Miller, Philip Jackson, Nicholas Felton, Dr. Maki Sugimoto, Ryan Bubinski, and Daito Manabe.

They've done it twice with their "one app at a time" videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOUfzyAEQHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtP6ZQ6Lt8

The thing is, as cheesy and hyperbolic these videos are, i still find them incredibly inspiring. And as an Android user i acknowledge the fact that many of the truly brilliant and well done apps are done for ios. Thats changing, but i am not sure if other platforms will ever be on par with Apple in terms of overall product quality, which is a benefit that comes with limits to the openness of the platform though.

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