Nokia slaps Apple with backhander during iPhone event - CNET

Nokia takes a look at the colorful iPhone 5C and sees, well, itself. It has to tweet what it sees. Then its UK arm decides to mock the gold 5S. September 10, 2013 11:53 AM PDT Aw. How sweet. (Credit: Nokia/Twitter) Your level of whelmed after Tuesday's Apple event might depend on your level of loyalty. The folks at (Micro)Nokia in the US, however, were moved to paroxysms when they saw the new iPhone 5C. They racked their brains as to where they'd seen it before. The mirror, that's where. More Technically Incorrect Texting and driving woman ends up in lake Apple's new iPhone 5S and 5C ads are colorful (and not) Jimmy Kimmel pitches the iPad Mini as the new iPhone Apple: No more things? Jimmy Kimmel: I'm behind 'twerking girl on fire' video So out went a tweet that offered, quite simply: "Thanks, Apple." Was (Micro)Nokia sincere in its admiration of the pretty iPhone 5C with the plastic back and joyous colors? Was it grateful that Apple was still the finest, most innovative phone creator on the planet? In a way. For accompanying the tweet was a picture of a lot of joyously colorful Nokia phones and the headline: "Imitation Is The Best Form Of Flattery." Gaining spirit from its American cousins, the good people at (Micro)Nokia UK decided to join the Twitter partisanship. So it tweeted: "Real Gangsters Don't Use Gold Phones." Accompanying it was an image. Oh, take a look below. Of course, this was all in good humor. MicroNokia has its own little challenges ahead, such as finding a way to raise its market share from the micro level. One can't help feeling, though, that these tweets expressed some relief that Apple hadn't surprised anyone at all. Not glittery. (Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGb-VlC-e_Pcad3dctAg8LUy4azMA&url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57602272-71/nokia-slaps-apple-with-backhander-during-iphone-event/

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