John Siracusa

They all know it's meant in jest to us, and it's funny, it's absurd to think about these type of things.

No one who follows me, you know, they're aware of the situation with the Mac Pro and my opinion on it, and to the extent that they care about the Mac Pro at all, it's probably only as a proxy through me because they never think about it otherwise, because why would they?

So that's the two.

But when something breaks containment and has context collapse, people start responding to it in ways that you will find puzzling.

First one that I found puzzling that I for a while I was like, did I make a mistake or something?

I've got a couple of people replying, telling me, oh, you got the price wrong.

It's seventeen hundred dollars.

what what and like the first time someone did it i'm like i just sent them the link to the macbook neo it was like the product just came out they don't you know you're not if you're not like a mac person you don't know that the macbook neo came out today why would you right but like i did say macbook neo i'm like did i spell it incorrectly no i spelled it correctly in the post it's in there two times but like if you read fast you see macbook three-letter word

you think MacBook pro.

So, and then it happened again.

And someone said, uh, the MacBook pro is $1,700, dude.

Look, you got the price totally wrong.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Like MacBook Neo.

yeah i don't i don't know like is it just you know it's an anagram of macbook one but it looks a lot like pro it's got a tall letter case letters so there's that so then you're like that's how you can tell something is broken containment could it be like a translation thing like if like if something auto translated it as the new macbook

These were also English speakers as far as, but like that's breaking containment.

Like people who follow me probably knew the MacBook Neo came out today.

People who have no idea who I am or anything about Apple or anything don't have no idea what the MacBook Neo came out an hour ago.

How would they know?

Right.