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Apple Begins Running iPad Mini 'Piano' TV Ad

Mak47 said:
The ad is designed to tell the 99% of the population that don't read tech news that the iPad mini exists. That's it, and it does it well.
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I thought 99% of the population couldn't afford anything? 😉

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iSteve-O said:
There's a lame piano app, but no native YouTube app smh 😡
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There is a native YouTube app. If you ever really used YouTube, you'd know about it because they kinda shout it at you when you visit YouTube.com on an iOS device.

Apple even gave it some special privileges, to my surprise, allowing it to take over the position of the YouTube player. That is, if you view a YouTube video in Safari, it takes you to the app to watch it.
 
Without the wide bezel, the iPad Mini looks almost widescreen! But of course we know it's not.
 
Oh jeez, even these tech nerds lingering on internet forums doesn't get it?

This ad means that iPad mini can do exactly what an iPad bigi can do.
 
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faroZ06 said:
No. Trust me, not everyone does. I went to an Apple store once and saw a lady poking Safari on the dock of an iMac, complaining that the computer was not loading it. Seriously, she wasn't kidding.
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That's clearly a lady who DOES know what an iPad is. (But not an iMac.)

Way to disprove your own point by showing that even the world's most ignorant woman still knows what an iPad is.

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Blackberryroid said:
Then show more apps! Of course the keyboard application will stay the same for even a smaller screen, how can you redesign it?

Then that leads me to a confusion where I have no idea if the iPad mini does exactly the same thing as the large iPad.

If they showed more apps, I'll be more certain that it does exactly the same thing.
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The last time I watched a Coke ad they showed people drinking it in a park.

I got really confused. Can I drink Coke in a restaurant? Can I drink it with tacos? Or what about hamburgers?

The confusion I suffered from that has caused me to swear off all sodas. Because, really, who can tell how to use them with such un-specific ads!
 
faroZ06 said:
I thought 99% of the population couldn't afford anything? 😉

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There is a native YouTube app. If you ever really used YouTube, you'd know about it because they kinda shout it at you when you visit YouTube.com on an iOS device.

Apple even gave it some special privileges, to my surprise, allowing it to take over the position of the YouTube player. That is, if you view a YouTube video in Safari, it takes you to the app to watch it.
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There is no native YouTube app for iOS 6, which the iPad Mini runs.
 
Fantastic ad. Reminds me of the piano scene from the movie "Big." Which, I'm guessing, is intentional.
 
Blackberryroid said:
Then why advertise? If someone knows what an iPad is, I'm pretty sure that someone is familiar with apps. And apps means a lot of things. Including digital piano.

That means that this video is targeted to people who doesn't know what an iPad is. And with the video, I'd think that it's a digital piano.

Good work advertising, Apple. Instead of showing the key features of the iPad, making it look like a digital piano is more important. The digital piano isn't even a built in app.
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Don't worry, your wife will love the dual core Tegra 2 chipset!
 
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.
 
How did conan get his hands on the commercial a week early? Apple posted it Nov 2 and i Just saw the commercial today on TV. But Conan posted his skit on Oct 25.

Check it out: http://youtu.be/iJtS8201qNc
 
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faroZ06 said:
What?? Haven't you seen the 1984 ad? That ad was so good that it deserved a spot in my signature.

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I don't like it. The fingers look too animated/fake. I'm pretty sure it's just a green screen effect, and they didn't do a very good job of hiding it. It looks totally fake.

By the way, you can connect Bluetooth and wired keyboards to iPads. Can you use them in Garageband for iOS the same way you can use them in Garageband for Mac, as a musical keyboard?

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No. Trust me, not everyone does. I went to an Apple store once and saw a lady poking Safari on the dock of an iMac, complaining that the computer was not loading it. Seriously, she wasn't kidding.
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mmm...she atleast knew its a computer she was poking at 😛
 
NOV said:
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.
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I know thats weird, its like the guy playing it had more than 2 fingers. /sarcasm
 
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Morod said:
When MacRumors first loaded for me, instead of the iPad commercial I got this:

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That's a YouTube error.

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Small White Car said:
That's clearly a lady who DOES know what an iPad is. (But not an iMac.)

Way to disprove your own point by showing that even the world's most ignorant woman still knows what an iPad is.

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The last time I watched a Coke ad they showed people drinking it in a park.

I got really confused. Can I drink Coke in a restaurant? Can I drink it with tacos? Or what about hamburgers?

The confusion I suffered from that has caused me to swear off all sodas. Because, really, who can tell how to use them with such un-specific ads!
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I rarely LOL because I'm a guy in my 30s, not a 14 year old girl on Facebook, but that made me LOL. The perfect combination of sarcasm and point. My favorite kind of post.
 
dethmaShine said:
Everybody knows about the iPad.......Everybody is familiar with Apple; and they are just using it to their advantage......
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Agreed! Unless they've been under a rock for the last 10 years or so.

Blackberryroid said:
Then why advertise? If someone knows what an iPad is, I'm pretty sure that someone is familiar with apps. And apps means a lot of things. Including digital piano. That means that this video is targeted to people who doesn't know what an iPad is. And with the video, I'd think that it's a digital piano.....
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To my mind, the gist of the ad is, that the smaller iPad works just the same way, and is just as versatile, fun, capable, .......... you fill in the blank, as the larger one, but just a bit, um....smaller, and therefore probably a bit cheaper. No words required.....Brilliant advertising. Kudos to that advertising agency!
 
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Windlasher said:
EVERYone knows what the IPad does.
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You would think, however I have run into some people (that are not ninety) that really know nothing or very little of what the iPad can do, shocking I know, how do they miss these things.
 
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