Funny email from Apple

apple-logo-bwTonight 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:

funnyemail

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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5 Responses to “Funny email from Apple”

  1. Tony Meyer says:

    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?

  2. Tim says:

    Good question. Maybe they want to track more exactly the number of people who need / prefer plain text?

  3. Tony Meyer says:

    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 ;)

  4. Nicole says:

    I dont get it.

  5. Tim Gaden says:

    OK, it’s not very funny, I admit. The joke is Apple sending an email that its default email client can’t render properly.

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