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Absolutely reeks of inorganic product placement.

Sorry but who exactly are you suggesting is paying him to slag off Apple products but not actually paying him to mention any other brand of laptop?

Linux isn't even a reasonable, statistical assumption to be making in the consumer space. If you slag Apple, in effect you are promoting their biggest competitor - MICROSOFT. He even explicitly uses the phrase "PCs" which most people understand to mean Microsoft devices.

What?

PCs means personal computers, they can run all sorts of OSes. In some cases I would even consider a device running macOS a PC. To jump to him promoting Windows is a bit of a stretch.

You're thinking like someone who has knowledge of computers. That's not who this kind of astroturfing is aimed at.

Surely you jest. Are you seriously not aware of the "Mac vs PC" war? PC = Windows.

IG-11 : You have suffered damage to your central processing unit.

The Mandalorian : You mean my brain.

IG-11 : That was a joke. It is meant to put you at ease.

Not sure how this is related

'Taika Waititi jokes about what writers should be asking for in the next round of talks with producers'

It is right there in the tweet.

And Taika was the voice of IG-11, in case that also wasn't clear.

and directed that episode.

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