Tonight I received an email from Apple that tickled my funny bone.
I happened to be looking at my screen as MailAppetizer popped up its notification about the latest version of Apple’s e-newsletter. It picks up the plain text version rather than the HTML version that I see in Mail.app by default.
Command-[ in Mail.app brought me the plain text version which reads:
Of course, Apple Mail doesn’t really have a problem with this and it’s a very laudable alert, but it gave me a chuckle all the same.
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January 28th, 2006 at 9:13 am
I don’t understand the logic here. Apple is sending a multipart alternative message, where this text is the text/plain version, right? And they have a plain-text version of the newsletter. Why not put the plain-text version of the newsletter as the text/plain alternative?
January 28th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Good question. Maybe they want to track more exactly the number of people who need / prefer plain text?
January 28th, 2006 at 9:54 am
Could be, I suppose. Since these are written by marketing people, I suppose it’s not that surprising that marketing wins out over user experience ;)
January 16th, 2007 at 12:45 am
I dont get it.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:47 am
OK, it’s not very funny, I admit. The joke is Apple sending an email that its default email client can’t render properly.