Colbert's top threat of the week: killer iPhones. Solution: buy a Zune.

by Ryan Block, posted Aug 15th 2008 at 10:57PM

Of course, it all seems so obvious now! How did we not interpret El Jobso's true meaning of the iPhone kill-switch -- it actually kills you. We have noted iPhone expert Stephen Colbert to thank not just for this brilliant deduction, but also for sticking up for the lot of us and giving the iPhone 3G a cold staredown -- but not before declaring, "I knew I should have gotten a Zune! They can't kill me... or do anything else." Zing! Clip after the break (iPhone at 5:45).

[Thanks, Matt]

Filed under: Apple

Tags: apple, Culture, iphone, microsoft, stephen colbert, StephenColbert, zune

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Josh @ Aug 15th 2008 11:23PM

Okay, I'm normally one to get more annoyed with the "ZOMG, NOT ANOTHER IPHONE POST!" comment drag than the posts themselves...but this time I couldn't help but chime in.

Really guys? This is blogworthy stuff right here? I think not.

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alex @ Aug 15th 2008 11:34PM

notice the signal bar is at none!!!!!!!!!

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I-phone Is I-sexaayy @ Aug 16th 2008 12:29AM

yes iphone has an airplane mode, quite usefull :)

Wow colbert rocks, he totally killed the zune hahahaha

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jim @ Aug 15th 2008 11:55PM

this post is nonsense. you wasted my reading energy by including it. please stop.

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I-phone Is I-sexaayy @ Aug 16th 2008 12:30AM

Your comment wasted my reading energy.

leave and never come back
Please and thank you

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snowenloe @ Aug 16th 2008 12:36AM

That was funny. Great post considering Sat and Sunday are the slowest Engadget news days, any news is good news I say

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I-phone Is I-sexaayy @ Aug 16th 2008 3:49AM

your village called, they want their idiot back

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snowenloe @ Aug 16th 2008 10:43AM

@ I-phone Is I-sexaayy

Judging by your past posts you are the idiot, nice try though.

FAIL

P.S. The AIr Force is for pussy's.

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I-phone Is I-sexaayy @ Aug 16th 2008 12:46PM

hahahahahahH
Living in your moms basement is pussy :)
Airforce? Nahh it's for men, unlike yourself :)

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AwlAmericanDawg @ Aug 16th 2008 1:19PM

Yeah true, nothing intresting happens on weekends so any type of news would entertain us.

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MacMobile @ Aug 16th 2008 1:25AM

This was insanely funning, Colbert is the best and i deactivated my killSwitch right after

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DiGiC @ Aug 16th 2008 6:02AM

Brilliant twist, had a good laugh at that :)

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kalibar @ Aug 16th 2008 6:45AM

That was funnier than I was expecting.

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plh2034 @ Aug 16th 2008 7:52AM

I feel bad for Jim.
It clearly takes more of his "energy" to think than it does to type

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Duscrom @ Aug 16th 2008 1:34PM

I knew there was a certain level of Zune-hate missing from engadget lately. Go ahead boys and girls, cuddle your iPods and iPhone's to sleep.

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I-phone Is I-sexaayy @ Aug 16th 2008 1:50PM

is there a reason for jelousy?

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snowenloe @ Aug 16th 2008 2:29PM

Learn how to spell you moron. I guess the Air Force will take anyone these days, lol. HAHAHAHA

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YankeeDooda @ Aug 16th 2008 4:26PM

you seem lonely and rather desperate, seeing as you've made 27 posts in one day, and none of them are more than attempted put-downs that make you sound like you're twelve.

grow up, seriously.

or at least make some jokes that are funny.

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Jake @ Aug 16th 2008 3:22PM

Yep. My Zune does nothing all right. As I'm listening to the radio while syncing without any wires (wirelessly isn't a word I just discovered), you can all be killed by your iPods :P

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