Steve Jobs shills green tea and Sony hardware in Taiwan

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Andy Ihnatko explains what's going on in the image above, which was snapped and submitted to him by a reader in Taiwan.

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This kind of tea is delicious.
relawson

doesn’t look like him. I don’t think.

maybe it is?
- xunker
  
  Taiwanese-localized version.
rollerskater

that article references an Apple Insider one that notes “As demand for the iPad and iPhone has surged in recent years … ” that was good for a LOL.
http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC

I was thinking that it looked like Jonathan Pryce.
David Carroll

Not Jobs. This guy is smiling.
pjcamp

He’s smiling because green tea gives him a working pancreas. That, plus not being evil and all.
BarBarSeven

Man, I know that isn’t Steve Jobs, but whoever he is he has clearly cornered a very lucrative ex-pat market in Taiwain: White guy who kinda looks like someone else!
Astragali

Looks suspiciously like Armando Ianucci to me.