Watch Apple cheese it up with this 1984 IBM-bashing Ghostbusters parody

While many of Apple’s fundamental tenets — simplicity, focus on experience over specs, and elegant design — have been there from the get-go, the company has changed through the years. For evidence, look no further than this cheesed-up 1984 spoof of the film Ghostbusters.

As you can see, numerous Apple employees use their Mac-powered proton packs to send IBM computers into the trash (Mac trash can icons to be exact). The video is called “Blue Busters,” in reference to IBM’s nickname “Big Blue.” It uses stop-motion animation to communicate just how badly Apple thought that IBM’s desktop PCs needed to be discarded. The video has an audio track that was recorded by the Ghostbusters theme’s singer, Ray Parker Jr., and

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