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===Relation to Animorphs===
 
===Relation to Animorphs===
  
The caption explains that tech tips from Animorphs are the worst, i.e. the woman is an Animorph, and this was not good advice.<sup>&#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&#93;</sup>
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The caption explains that tech tips from Animorphs are the worst, i.e. the woman is an Animorph, and this was not good advice.{{Citation needed}}
  
 
The title text continues the idea that an Animorph tech support team would be the worst possible explaining that their solutions are always the same. And then it gives an example which references a common occurrence in the Animorphs book series wherein the protagonists uses their ability to morph into animals to infiltrate enemy strongholds. In the example it is an update for {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple's}} {{w|MacOS|OS X}} (a popular commercial operating system), that broke something. The solution is to infiltrate Apple by morphing apples. Morphing into fruit is nonsensical within the rules for morphing (as put forth in the books), since the children can only turn into animals (and not into fruit, like apples). It would also be very ineffective, since fruit can't move on their own.{{cn}} Plus, Apple Inc. has little to do with actual apples, so this is not a good form to infiltrate their headquarters (morphing into bugs or even Apple's employees would be more effective, and is allowed by books' rules). Randall is [http://arthur.wikia.com/wiki/Vegemorphs not the first] to propose morphing into vegetables as an [https://www.amazon.com/Vegemorphs-Fungus-Among-Chris-Steinbach/dp/0061070858 Animorph's parody].
 
The title text continues the idea that an Animorph tech support team would be the worst possible explaining that their solutions are always the same. And then it gives an example which references a common occurrence in the Animorphs book series wherein the protagonists uses their ability to morph into animals to infiltrate enemy strongholds. In the example it is an update for {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple's}} {{w|MacOS|OS X}} (a popular commercial operating system), that broke something. The solution is to infiltrate Apple by morphing apples. Morphing into fruit is nonsensical within the rules for morphing (as put forth in the books), since the children can only turn into animals (and not into fruit, like apples). It would also be very ineffective, since fruit can't move on their own.{{cn}} Plus, Apple Inc. has little to do with actual apples, so this is not a good form to infiltrate their headquarters (morphing into bugs or even Apple's employees would be more effective, and is allowed by books' rules). Randall is [http://arthur.wikia.com/wiki/Vegemorphs not the first] to propose morphing into vegetables as an [https://www.amazon.com/Vegemorphs-Fungus-Among-Chris-Steinbach/dp/0061070858 Animorph's parody].

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