Sunday, May 4, 2008

GTA IV kills Apple with in-game parodies: Fruit Computer, iFruit Phone


You know what, I've never really played a single game of Grand Theft Auto (best known to all the cool kids as GTA) before in my life. I know it, even recall some of the cheat codes to it - show me the money? - but I honestly never ever played it. Ever. But this could possibly change, because of the latest release of the game, dubbed GTA IV, which you can see here has a hidden Apple parody in one of its in-game games.

What you are seeing in the photo was taken during an in-game Internet cafe game in GTA IV, apparently which shows a Safari-browser knock-off being used by the lead game character to navigate www.fruitcomputer.com. And the rest, as they say, is history.

And not content on bashing Apple for the iMac, and its "overpriced minimalism," the makers of GTA have gone so far as to belittle the world's most loved phone ever, the JesusPhone itself, the Apple iPhone, with this:



And what does Apple have to say about this?

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All I can say is good work to the makers of GTA IV!

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