Poor old Apple Computer Inc can’t do anything right these days, and nothing works the way it should: now fans of the Mac are outraged at the fact that although Apple has a multimillion- dollar marketing tie-in with the Tom Cruise movie Mission Impossible, whenever Cruise uses his PowerBook laptop, it comes up with a command line interface rather than the Macintosh interface and the Apple logo is not seen – and it’s said that when Cruise and his team are planning a break-in at the CIA, their computer expert insists that they must have Thinking Machines laptops, whatever they may be; to compound Apple’s woe, the Mission Impossible Web site it has set up leads some visiting Macs to crash – still, Apple is in good company because by all accounts of the movie, it is not the only one treated with contempt – audiences that expect their thrillers to have internal logic and to make sense in their own terms, rather than simply an enormous body count, will also end up feeling very short-changed.
