This week I'm in Washington, on the Microsoft campus for the second annual Professional Photography Summit. (Marking air mile 56,000 for the year, for those of you playing the home version of Frequent Flyer Hell.) Microsoft brought a bunch of actors in to talk, part of a group that are lobbying for different rights for celebrities who are photographed. Don't ask. Really.
Anyhow, mind you I'm at the Microsoft Campus at a Microsoft event, and while I'm standing in the hallway putting away my iPhone, actor Joe Montagne's daughter comes up and takes a look at the phone. (She's, I think 16? Perfect market for a device like this, right?) "OH MY GOD" she says, "is that the iPhone?" which precedes the request for a demo, as always. So I'm showing off the iPhone to her mostly, but also to Ernie Hudson, Joe Montagne and Joey Pants. I show off a movie, scrubbing through it, changing the volume. I switch to photos and show her flicking through photos and then pinching to zoom in. Which is the point at which she squeals with surprise. (That demo on the Apple video was actually the same thing that convinced several people I know to get the iPhone.)
One of the Microsoft guys running the show comes over and says, jokingly, "what's with this Apple product at a Microsoft event? "Yeah," says Joe Montagne, "it's like looking at bar mitzvah pictures at Hitler's house."
That's one hell of a good line.
Ha ha ha I love the bar mitzvah/Hitler line.
Posted by: KBP | July 15, 2007 at 10:26 PM