Hey, Defiance Sells

Nice of Apple to equate an historic event that heavily influenced the African-American civil rights movement with being your own style guru and using their product. With the advent of this new photo featuring the late Rosa Parks (left) on the Apple website, the question of tribute, or yet using another respected figure as a prop for advertising comes into mind. I tend to say the latter, since they resurrected their "Think Different" ad slogan from a few years back for the picture. So who can blame this site for it's logical updating of what Apple coulda done with it (right). (Found via Breaking the Fourth Wall).

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[Oscar]

I'm amazed that Jimwich seriously considers his pseudo-ad a furthering of the tribute, as opposed to sarcastic commentary. Especially in light of satirical ads like "iRaq," or websites that you can pay to "ipodify" any photo of your choosing.