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Ellen Feiss: Not a 'Real Person' After All
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
November 22nd 2002
Feiss interview doesn't suggest she's 'switched' at all.
Apple's most famous 'Switcher', Ellen Feiss, has given her long-awaited first
interview - to the Brown Daily Herald.
Feiss, whose popularity has spawned a lookalike contest, as well as a slew of
websites, including EllenFeiss.net, has been coy about fame, eschewing interviews with
the big guns of the late-night talk circuit, Leno and Letterman. But she has an agent
just the same.
In the interview, Feiss reveals she got the Apple ad through her friendship with the
son of the ad's director, although she claims ignorance of the terms of the deal. She
does own up to getting an iPod, however ("It�s like the coolest thing ever.").
Feiss also says she was close to a movie role with the Farrelly Brothers, producers of
films such as There's Something About Mary. She stays away from newsgroups but was at
MacWorld in July, where she was spied by a number of eagle-eyed attendees. And she met
Steve Jobs [We're assuming the iCEO didn't insult her or share stoner stories]
And, yes, she says " I was on drugs!"
But there's more: "I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication...That�s why my eyes were
all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me."
Analysis: The most serious thing to come out of this affair is that Apple's 'Switch'
ads are about as genuine as Microsoft's. Is Feiss a 'real person'? No, she was a
friend of the ad director's kid. She doesn't even say she uses a Mac. "Hey," said the
director, according to Feiss, "we need a couple more people."
The media - and users - were erroneously led to believe by Apple that the switchers
were for real. That these were unsolicited comments from people who had switched.
But, like every other firm, Apple has merely paid a bunch of actors (amateur and
otherwise, presumably) to push their products which, in many cases they may not even
use.Cynicism is clearly no stranger at Cupertino.
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