What is there to say about a cheap immitation apple product. Only that it is a pale immitaiton or that it reminds you of all the good things in the absence of the real thing?
Stephen King said that
"Each life makes its own immitation of immortality."
The apple as an icon and as a metaphor is immortal and so it lives on beyond us and beyond the very disposable plasitic packaging.
The marketing Director of Pepsi, Mr. W Bill Monro said that "Imitation is the sincerest form of collective stupidity.” And in that view I wasted my four dollars, but is it valid or is he downgrading the value of mutual concensus? It's also been said wisely that mutual concensus is truth. If that is so, then he can be disregarded as he disagrees with us.
John Stuart Mill said that "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. " Immitation is one of those fruits and on that topic he is heutral or mum. The oldest quote is that immitation is the sincerest form of flattery (or some phrase derivation thereof) If that is so, this cannot be so sincere as this slice of pie was mediocre and as Paramahansa Yogananda once said "Most people imitate others. You should be original, and whatever you do, do well. " In corollary poor imitation is an insult. Which seems to reccomend the real thing more than any other.
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