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September 28, 2007

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Sticker Sighting: iTrash

Posted Sep. 28, ’07, 3:01 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Geekery

itrash.jpgYes, this is the obligatory “omg I saw an Apple sticker!” post. Yes, I know some of you probably don’t care. And yes, it has been a great day, thanks for asking!

Ready for the most shockingest revelation you’ll ever read on any blog ever? Here it goes: Apple is getting more and more popular. I know. Unbelievable, right? That’s ok, sit down if you need to.

And with popularity comes more and more branded-adhesives smacked onto cars, mopeds, moogs, luggage, um…Dells, and, yes, janitorial trash cans. (Flickr’s got a great selection of stickered tangibles.)

This lovely image was taken with my iPhone underneath a stairwell on campus.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: Holy crap, Dan! You took a spy shot of a secret new Apple product!

No-ho-ho buddy. I thought so too at first, until I asked some pretty smart Apple-oriented people and they assured me it probably wasn’t. At least I think that’s what they said. It was hard to tell over all the laughter and lousy mean-spirited jokes.


3 Comments

Nick said:

Back in my caveman days when I worked as an IT consultant on mostly PCs, we used to take the Intel Inside stickers and put them on trash bins, along with its brethren Built for Windows x, y, z...

September 28, 2007 3:39 PM
krye said:

That's actually the packaging for the new Gateway One

September 28, 2007 6:27 PM
wesg Author Profile Page said:

Ha! Nick and krye, you guys are funny.

October 1, 2007 7:24 AM

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