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Watch Apple's creepy follow-up to the 1984 Super Bowl ad

Everyone, or at least everyone who will read this, is familiar with Apple's 1984 Super Bowl ad. That's especially impressive when you consider that it was only shown on TV once (after the Super Bowl, George Orwell's estate sent Apple a cease and decist letter charging copyright infringement of the novel 1984). Even so, it remains up there with Mean Joe Green and "Where's the beef?!" in the classic...

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