There's a lame piano app, but no native YouTube app smh
Retarded troll
I suppose you have a point in that people with an autism spectrum disorder will think the iPad is a digital piano.
This ad also highlights the point that Android devices are still mostly hopeless when it comes to music apps. .
What is it with Apple's marketing? They do this ALL the time where they take a great product with killer hardware and intuitive user interface to do useful things, and advertise it to 4 year olds. I don't get it...the core of Apple fans need to be the techies...not little girls.
It would have been better to just show kids playing on it, students taking notes on it, businessmen using it, and some guy waiting in a train station watching a movie on it.
This ad is just kinda cheesy and hardly shows off the usefulness, portability, or elegance of the iPad mini.
Blame google. They didn't want to relicense for a built in app because Apple wouldn't allow ads and wouldn't share demo info about hits.
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That's where I disagree though...from a pure, hardware and technical standpoint, apple products are superior than the competition...so why is this killer hardware being advertised to soccer moms and not geeks?
I don't mind including the mid-market, but why EXCLUDE the technical consumers, especially when the products include hardware that technical consumers would highly appreciate and the mid-market wouldn't recognize.
t's one of the reasons I was a fandroid for a while because I assumed iphone/ipad were weak, overpriced toys (as a result of these cutsey lame commercials), and then when I actually used one, I realized "hey, this thing is a powerful computer, way more powerful than any android product...
I do agree, sadly, that apple keeps dumbing down their products, and when you go to the apple store, everyone's looking at ipads and nobody is looking at the Mac Pro, which is a beast of a machine and a geek's dream. I sure hope they don't get rid of the Mac Pro anytime soon...it's by far Apple's best product and I hope it doesn't go away because they are selling out to the soccer moms and leaving their core tech. fans out to dry.
Not anymore. There are plenty of phones that blow away the iPhone in terms of raw power, and when the Surface surfaces (pun fully intended) I predict that it will blow the iPad out of the water, if one is looking for a "thing [that] is a powerful computer".
Really?, I was under the impression the iPhone 5 was at the top of the benchmarks.
The iPad has been benchmarking very strong as well.
I believe iOS hardware used to be below the pack hardware wise (still competitive though), but are now, at least recently often at the top of the pack.
It's the walled garden that rubs 'geeks' the wrong way more than anything else in my experience. Apple won't let you tinker and waiting for a jailbreak sucks.
Lol you don't know this.
On topic, I bet I'll be very interested in the 2nd Gen mini - once its jailbroken
Purely musically spoken this ad is a bit of a fraud, because somewhere midway the ad (when the fingers are no longer visible) you suddenly hear extra piano notes (chords) that never could have been played by the two fingers.
He didn't use "autistic" synonymous with "stupid". Autistic people are in some cases not capable of recognizing things like irony, metaphors and similar linguistic devices. So the statement was true. And I can only laugh about the respect thing, sorry.Please show some respected for the retarded and/or austistic by not using them, like gays etc, as a synonym for stupid or undesirable. It's crass and tacky.
I saw the mini today at my local Apple store.
OMFG! The build quality is A+!!!!!
It is an awesome device. Don't worry about the screen resolution. It doesn't take away one bit from the experience.
And when that bad boy goes retina with an A6 chip all hell will break loose next year.
Noticed that too. Where in heck did those chords come from?
I guess Apple assumed musicians wouldn't notice, much like we haven't noticed the long overdue Logic X and a Mac Pro to run it on...
Just sayin'...
Noticed that too. Where in heck did those chords come from?
I guess Apple assumed musicians wouldn't notice,
Aside from the fact that Heart and Soul makes me want to jump out the window of my 15th storey flat, I loved this ad. Adorable.
I'm certain they knew that musicians would notice. But the ad wasn't created for you so they just didn't care.
As for the whole Logic Pro X etc, are you so sure that EVERYONE is screaming for it or are you speaking for yourself and assuming you are so important that everyone would agree with you
What's the message of this ad? I always thought that mini pianos were only good for those who can't afford real ones either because of space constraints or costs. Is that the reason people should buy iPad Mini too?