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The Kids Dig the Apple

Are Macs back on the cutting edge of the zeitgeist? They may be, according to this article from MacTeens online. Posing the question, "Is Apple Now a Pop Icon," the adolescent writer does suffer from a bit of the old "Life on Earth Began with My Attaining Consciousness" syndrome. I mean, come on, Apple was a pop culture icon back when Paul McCartney was still in Wings, for God's sake. But at least the kids are talking about Macs again, which wasn't the case in the mid-90's, as the author points out, when Apple was just a cheap punchline to a joke on "The Simpsons." Now groovy iMacs are turning up all over the boob tube, and the public animus has turned against the colossus in Redmond. Take the temperature of the youth culture with this eye-opening article.

Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:00:33 -0800