Apple kills Flash
In case you missed it, and danged if it didn’t happen fast… Shirt.Woot! debuted a dilly of a pickle today on it’s newest shirt, featuring our favorite scarlet speedster taking a little nap on the concrete. The culprit? Well, a poisoned Apple. It seems Apple killed Flash. Get it? Or do we need to spell this one out?
Savvy tech-nerds get it. You see, those fancy iPhones, and iPads don’t support the web-based technology Flash, created by Adobe. The two companies used to be like Wally and Hal. Or Hal and Ollie. Or Ollie and Black Canary. But now? They’re like Superman and Lex Luthor, or Batman and the Joker. It ain’t pretty. Sure, both companies have attempted to explain their malaise for one another in wonderfully worded “open letters”, but we comic fans know hatred when we see it. And this situation is like Professor X and Magneto: best buddies turned enemies based on their personal mantras.
While we would have love to slap one of these cotton beauties across our geeky torsos… alas, Shirt.Woot! has already sold out. Faster than Barry slapped Wally back to the co-feature eh’?
That’s hilarious. I wish I’d seen this earlier, I’d have bought one of those shirts in a…well, a flash, I guess.
That's hilarious. I wish I'd seen this earlier, I'd have bought one of those shirts in a…well, a flash, I guess.
Actually FoxTrot beat them to the punch on this one. http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2010/03/21/
OK, despite some geeky cred, I was slow to get it. I’m going to claim it was because Flash is missing his chest logo and I was trying to figure out if the Apple logo was supposed to take it’s place. Or something.So, is there a reason Flash’s logo is absent?
My guess is trademark issues.
Yeah, I thought about that. Could be, although it seems kinda odd. The costume, complete with ear wings and lightning belt/cuffs is clearly, distinctly the Flash. And it would be the logo that is key to avoiding a trademark issue?
Actually FoxTrot beat them to the punch on this one. http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2010/03/21/
OK, despite some geeky cred, I was slow to get it. I'm going to claim it was because Flash is missing his chest logo and I was trying to figure out if the Apple logo was supposed to take it's place. Or something.So, is there a reason Flash's logo is absent?
My guess is trademark issues.
Yeah, I thought about that. Could be, although it seems kinda odd. The costume, complete with ear wings and lightning belt/cuffs is clearly, distinctly the Flash. And it would be the logo that is key to avoiding a trademark issue?