Apple, the company that brought you the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, has a new creation: Cupidtino. But don’t start ripping apart the couch cushions looking for $100 bills just yet. Cupidtino isn’t a gadget; it’s an online dating site! Cupidtino is for Mac users only. Because love means never having to right-click.
Before you ask, Steve Jobs does not appear to have a dating profile, so surrender that fantasy now. And I know a lot of you are already in love with your iPhone – you hold it close all the time, gaze lovingly into its sky blue applications, check in with it to make sure the trending topics on Twitter haven’t changed since you last looked. But now you can access thousands (maybe millions by the time you read this) of other Mac users who feel the same way. Just think, while you’re snuggling up with actual flesh and blood (that sounded more gross than romantic, but you get where I’m going), your iPhones can sit side by side on the coffee table. It’s like a double date without the awkward conversation.
I joined Cupidtino with the name DebbieCake. The layout is simple in design – similar to the way Twitter looks. It’s easy to browse other users once you join up and the services are free for now. What I dug was the no-nonsense profile. Unlike other sites that make you fill out a whole questionnaire about favorite colors, greatest fears, number of freckles in weird places, Cupidtino is more hip: You fill out 4 boxes: “What I Do,” “I Became a Mac When,” “Cool Facts About Me,” and “You’re My Type If.” It’s all short answer so you get to sound like you with no annoying boxes to check. There are extras (Favorites, More Details, My Gadgets) so you can get a better sense of someone once you’ve scoped their avatar and status bar. Right now there aren’t settings to narrow your search, but Cupidtino promises there will be lots of extras in the future. I mean, these are the guys that made it possible to pour BEER out of a PHONE. (I’m not saying they’ll make it possible to pour beer out of your date, but that would be AWESOME). Plus, they have an option for making your first date at the nearest Mac store. Is there a more romantic setting for Mac Geeks than a sea of glowing apples and the lulling click of keyboards? And if you dig each other you can always hit the closest bar for an iCocktail. That’s not a thing, but um, Steve Jobs — it SHOULD be.
Cupidtino, with it’s fun, user-friendly layout and Mac-geek charm is a hip alternative your traditional dating site. It may not seem PC to exclude PC’s, but owning a Mac is a choice. So is owning a PC – like when I made the choice in 6th grade to wear my pink t-shirt with puffy paint unicorn heads all over it and black lycra biker shorts and white keds with baggy socks pushed down and when the lights went off for the slow song I found out for the first time that those puffy paint unicorn heads were GLOW IN THE DARK and I had to wait for them to fade like I’m still waiting for that memory to fade…. Um, you get it: Choose Mac. You can slow dance with Steve Jobs in your mind, but with Cupidtino, maybe you can stop being a sad Mac and finally find someone to say iLove you to.
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