John, John. OK, dude, behind the sensitive rock star/guitar god front, we know you're a not-so-secret Mac geek. Sure, you jammed out to Message In A Bottle with the Police at Live Earth, but wasn't it just as big a thrill to be onstage for a legendary Stevenote? Wasn't it good, John? Good enough for you?Apparently Mr. "I'm Going To Serenade The Macworld Faithful" has been sneaking around the country with some other company's smartphone. Sure, Blackberry might sponsor your summer tour, and even provide some exclusive photos and video, but we know what kind of mobile device you're keeping in the pocket closest to your heart, with your guitar picks... and its name begins with 'i' and ends with 'one,' if you know what I'm talking about.
*sniff* Two-timing creep. I'm taking all the photos of you down from my locker RIGHT NOW.
Note: Comments have pointed out the striking similarity between this story and Fake Steve's take on the same issue. While I can think of nobody better to flatter by imitation, the deal is this: I wrote this post very early Wednesday morning (about 1:30 am ET), FSJ's post not yet published. My post was published at 11 am ET on Wednesday, and I hadn't read FSJ's post... which is timestamped 6:58 pm, Wednesday 7/11. Even if FSJ's on UK time, that's still well after my post went live. So... let's just go with "great comedy minds think alike" and call it a day, mmmkay? (Much love, FSJ.)
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7-11-2007 @ 11:07AM
Billy K said...
Good riddance. He was (is) an embarassment.
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7-11-2007 @ 11:12AM
essjaydee said...
...thats it..... im burning my memory box.
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7-11-2007 @ 11:15AM
Brian said...
Michael, that was a funny post. Thanks.
On a side note, Mayer's blog is a pretty good read sometimes.
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7-11-2007 @ 11:32AM
karo said...
That is funny.
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7-11-2007 @ 11:39AM
Fred said...
You know he's only carrying that thing so he can have his Sting
ringtones. OW BURN! I'm actually really happy with my iPhone, and
am waiting for the day that I can use my own music for ringers.
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7-11-2007 @ 11:56AM
isky said...
i went to his concert at the hollywood bowl about a month ago. yeah, the blackberry sponsorship was everywhere...but he still came out and did a song with a black guitar that had a big white apple sticker on the front of it.
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7-11-2007 @ 12:04PM
Matt Bland said...
The deal for the tour sponsorship was probably signed before the announcement of the iPhone. He's probably stuck with it and contractually bound not to endorse, or be seen to endorse, a competitive product.
I know John is a big Apple fan. It's just a shame that SJ couldn't have given him the heads up on the iPhone before it was made public.
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7-11-2007 @ 12:13PM
bobvilla said...
Family Guy got it right when they said "That's enough John Mayer"
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7-11-2007 @ 12:37PM
Snowmobile said...
I don't think Steve and John are sleeping in seperate bedrooms just yet, because yesterday I got a mail from iTunes stating:
"iTunes has an exclusive recording from this weekend's worldwide Live Earth concert: John Mayer performing his fittingly titled "Waiting On the World to Change". The breezy funk of the track and Mayer's heartfelt delivery take on extra poignancy in this context. You can get this track alone or pre-order the upcoming Live Earth album and receive the track now."
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7-11-2007 @ 12:45PM
derek said...
NO ONE CARES!!!!!!!
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7-11-2007 @ 12:50PM
Billy K said...
Two words that should never lie adjacent..."breezy" and "funk."
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7-11-2007 @ 12:57PM
ruganlutula said...
So this article doesn't actually report what the headline implies: that Mayer has tried to contact Jobs, to no avail. Instead, it just points out that Blackberry is sponsoring Mayer. Nothing more, nothing less.
Nice way to mislead us. Although you've been doing that for quite some time, now, huh?
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7-11-2007 @ 12:58PM
Juan Pablo Pincheira said...
that's sad.
at least we know he loves apple. but he needs to live too, he needs that level of promotion that blackberry is giving him
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7-11-2007 @ 12:59PM
Michael Rose said...
#12 -- you think I really know if John Mayer is trying to call Steve Jobs?
For your future reference, "X's calls no longer returned by Y" is a humorous way of implying a rift among friends (cf. HBO's Entourage). This post is meant to be funny. Sorry you didn't pick up on the joke.
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7-11-2007 @ 1:16PM
Paul said...
Has anyone listened to John Mayer since his first album? For a "guitar god", he sure is boring.
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7-11-2007 @ 1:24PM
Ryan said...
Oh come on, is Steve Job really that petty? It's not like he just kicked his dog or worse. So he's using a BlackBerry. Whoop dee doo. If he cuts off a friend for that. I'm losing some respect for Steve.
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7-11-2007 @ 1:26PM
andy said...
I'll be catching him in Boston next week, I'll be sure to direct him to this post.
His latest album, Continuum is pretty fricking awesome, by the way.
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7-11-2007 @ 2:11PM
duestown said...
Hear that, Michael Rose? It's the sound of Jimi Hendrix's ghost making plans to smite you for calling John Mayer a "guitar god."
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7-11-2007 @ 2:40PM
Bab said...
Wow, you directly copied this story from from Fake Steve. TUAW has really been sucking lately.
Original article:
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/john-mayer-you-are-dead-to-me.html
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7-11-2007 @ 2:45PM
Raphael Salgado said...
From what I heard, his IP is banned from getting any Mac OS X Software Updates, too. Pity. ;)
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