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Earlier today while reading Splorp, a favorite blog of mine, I came across this post. Seems that, buried deep within the help files for Apple's DVD Player is the screen depicted at the right, which mistakenly lists Canada as a U.S. territory. We may share some land mass with our next door neighbors, but that's really where it ends. See a full version of the screenshot in Splorp's Flickr account. Oops.To get an instant map to any address, just go to your Address Book and right click on the address field of any one of your contacts and select "Map Of." The address will then be revealed in Google Maps on Safari. You can do the same if a data detector determines there is an address in an e-mail in Mail.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Al said 8:15AM on 6-21-2005
LOL Wishful thinking on Apple's part?
I've often wanted to be the guy who writes documentation you know that very few people will read...
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Alex K. said 9:25AM on 6-21-2005
who the hell cares? It's just a typo. It's not like Apple is personally bashing Canada on purpose. ONE GUY IN A CUBICLE wrote that documentation, it wasn't like Steve Jobs was doing it or anything.
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random said 9:30AM on 6-21-2005
*looks around shifty eyed* Drat! Foiled again.
I can't believe that Apple, king of secrets, couldn't keep the US's military strategy under wraps.
Nothing to see here. Move along...
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Jeff Kirk said 9:33AM on 6-21-2005
Well, it's about time that we foreclose on Canada anyway. Way to go Apple!
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Dave said 9:35AM on 6-21-2005
I know it's just a typo. I'm not condemning Apple, I just thought it was an amusing error.
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Sacco said 9:56AM on 6-21-2005
Intrigued, I went and chez on my computer to find that contrary to the US version of OS X, my French-Canadian version says Canada, US and its territories (my translation for Canada, ?ats-Unis et territoires des ?ats-Unis)... hum...
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Sam said 10:34AM on 6-21-2005
"Well, it's about time that we foreclose on Canada anyway."
I don't think us Americans should be throwing around the word "foreclose" just now.
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Richard Taylor said 11:55AM on 6-21-2005
There seems to be this abiding feeling among Canadians that the U.S. wants Canada. Americans in truth DON'T CARE about Canada and think of it (when they think of it at all, which is almost never) as ice-bound. This is reminiscent of Britain's "51st state" concerns back in the '60s. Current events to the contrary (God, I hope they're to the contrary), Americans are a peace-loving people who yearn for picket fences, clapboard houses, and home-baked good ol' American apple pie. However, my Canadian friends, should there ever be a run on ice cubes, well...
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w.e. said 11:41AM on 6-21-2005
Hahaha! This is just my kind of humor, and, Alex K, that's why I care. Canada's expected us to try to annex them for hundreds of years. Maybe Apple is finally going to make it happen. Time to buy some AAPL.
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Adam said 1:10AM on 6-23-2005
Canada should sue Apple... Everyone else is, eh.
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Al said 4:18PM on 6-21-2005
Please, please take us over and free us from the socialized dictatorship that those left winged crooks in Ottawa have foisted upon us over the last 50 years. The natural ruling party here has stolen, misplaced and given away billions in taxpayers money over the last 10 years. Annexation is our only hope.
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tnkgrl said 3:06PM on 6-21-2005
Apple's just envious of our health care system :)
tnkgrl (a canadian living and working in San Francisco who is spending more money on her co-pays with insurance in SF than she used to spend out-of-pocket without insurance in Canada for the same meds)
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Dave Caolo said 10:03PM on 6-21-2005
Come on, folks, let's keep it on topic, ok? This is a tech blog. . .
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rampancy said 9:14AM on 6-22-2005
I, for one, welcome our new American overlords...
(Sorry, couldn't resist!)
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Thomas Hugh said 10:38AM on 6-22-2005
Its amazing how the so called intelligent people on both sides of the boarder can act so stupid over a simple typo error that does no harm to any one.
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sherwood Baker said 10:46AM on 6-22-2005
Hey guys, time to take the aluminum foil off of your head. When you outsource your programming to places like India, Russsia, and the Phillipines, what do you expect?
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