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What a weird usage of that word…


GP was probably looking for the word "astroturfing":

astroturfing:

> The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event – i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/astroturfing

agitprop:

> Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agitprop


It's obviously not astroturfing since it's a statement from Apple themselves. Astroturfing, if we were talking politics, would be if Apple secretly funded swift user groups across the world to make it appear that people liked the language.

Obviously they don't have to do that, since people love it.


Oh, it is astroturfing to be sure. But I was just having fun with the propaganda inherent in the sentence too.




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