Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
We're her potential customers, for pete's sake. Would senior manager/executive at Apple Computing pull a joke on millions of unknown, faceless customers? I think she's lacking business marketing judgement.
Google does it every year, and puts significant amounts of efforts into their rouses.

The billions they roll in tend to suggest it ain't hurting them at all...

(and no, they aren't the only company I've heard of doing similar)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes