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Source URL: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1824
50 cent in talks with Apple over low-cost computers
The hip-hop star who "put Lamborghini doors on that Es-co-lade" is now looking to Apple Computer for help in placing affordable computers in the hands of the less wealthy.
According to Forbes, rapper 50 Cent is currently in negotiations with Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs to produce a line of affordable home computers for inner-city residents.
"I'm creating a foundation that will be around for a long time, because fame can come and go or get lost in the lifestyle and the splurging," 50 Cent told the publication. "I never got into it for the music. I got into it for the business."
The negotiations between the rapper and Apple are for a "branding deal."
50 Cent ranks amongst the world's richest celebrities, raking in over $67 million in 2005 from record sales and branding deals that include a line of sneakers, a video game and his G-Unit clothing line
"[Jobs] is setting a new standard in the music business," said 50's manager, Chris Lighty. "Let's just say we get each other."
50 Cent's untitled third album is due out by Christmas.
Poster's Commentary: Just imagine the uproar that would ensue if a white musician of sort made similar appeals to a computer maker so that low-cost devices could be secured for a low-income albeit predominantly white area. Examples such as this make it clear that there is indeed one set of operating parameters for protected groups (niggers, jews) and another set for "everybody else" that the system doesn't favor.
Posted : 19/06/2006 1:37 pm
Hey, I'm low income and most of my machines are built from parts I scavenge from stuff folks throw away.
I have gotten 2 Pent 3 machines, 4 Celeron machines and a host of drives, power supplies and monitors all from just keeping my eyes open when driving around. People throw out these things when they upgrade, especially around tax refund time even though there may be nothing wrong with them. All it takes is a bit of work and you have yourself a machine that you can use for just about anything, let alone the simple web surf.
Posted : 19/06/2006 1:47 pm
I did a little research, and came across this prototype that Apple Computers is planning to release in Detroit this coming Christmas...
Posted : 19/06/2006 2:37 pm
Hey, I'm low income and most of my machines are built from parts I scavenge from stuff folks throw away.
I have gotten 2 Pent 3 machines, 4 Celeron machines and a host of drives, power supplies and monitors all from just keeping my eyes open when driving around. People throw out these things when they upgrade, especially around tax refund time even though there may be nothing wrong with them. All it takes is a bit of work and you have yourself a machine that you can use for just about anything, let alone the simple web surf.
The inner-city subhumans are incapable of scrounging computer parts and assembling them into a working machine.
"At every door-way,
ere one enters,
one should spy round,
one should pry round
for uncertain is the witting
that there be no foeman sitting,
within, before one on the floor." -Odin, from the Hávamál (Olive Bray's translation)
Posted : 19/06/2006 2:38 pm
The inner-city subhumans are incapable of scrounging computer parts and assembling them into a working machine.
Must be so because if I lived in a city, I would probably need a wharehouse just to store all the parts I would find there. My local dump has a section just for discarded hardware. Sometimes it's worth the $8 to drive in empty and drive out with a truckbed full of gear.
Silly monkeys, technology is for Whites. If they can't screw or chew it they have no clue.
Posted : 19/06/2006 2:45 pm