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Apple Debuts Four New FaceTime Ads
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If there are 'troubles' with the infrastructure, why not wait until those 'troubles are dealt with' before rolling out the feature? Wouldn't FaceTime be far more successful if we were all able to use it over 3G without any troubles rather than this staggered approach to saturating the market with a new slant on an old idea?
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Ohh my God. She is holding the phone the wrong way according to Jobs. How can she even receive a signal?!!
Ohh my God. She is holding the phone the wrong way according to Jobs. How can she even receive a signal?!!
Dude, please don't speak ill of the dead. These poor actors were all gunned down shortly after filming, by request of SJ, for making him look obnoxious and hypocritical.
Oh dear...
These cheesy adverts make me want to kill myself. Thank god they won't be playing them over here
These cheesy adverts make me want to kill myself. Thank god they won't be playing them over here
I can't believe I'm responding to your rather unlettered comment, but here goes:
The idea is that Apple has made an open standard for video calling that can be implemented in phones, computer software and more. You just naming off video/audio codecs means nothing and doesn't really help much at all.
Smile - Dad is away on business and daughter just got her braces. Rather then ignoring the subject for a week while he is away he breaks down the wall early.
Meet Her - Grandpa lives out of town because dad relocated for work or went away to college and stayed in that city.
Big News - I got nothing.
Haircut - That isn't one of those life changing moments. If you feel like you need a face to face conversation over hair, its time to move out of the stone age.
well isn't this a cheesefest! kind of corny...anyway cool concept, love the fact its a feature but this is false advertisement because it is choppy and audio is usually never in sync.
Once again, the geeks on this board are closed- minded enough to think that apple is trying to market to them. Apple already has you. Of course they don't advertise multitasking or gyroscopes - normal people don't care about that.
They are marketing to people who need a little push and spend money - younger adult women seem to be the demographic here. Smart move; younger adult women make household purchasing decisions but aren't uncomfortable with new tech.
I think the ads are terrible, but Apple isn't marketing to me since they already own geeks like me.
They are marketing to people who need a little push and spend money - younger adult women seem to be the demographic here. Smart move; younger adult women make household purchasing decisions but aren't uncomfortable with new tech.
I think the ads are terrible, but Apple isn't marketing to me since they already own geeks like me.
I don't really like these commercials. I mean maybe in 5-10 years everyone will be video conferencing like that, but not now. I don't think FaceTime is a huge deal right now, until it is compatible with more devices including Macs. If they really wanted to push FaceTime and progress everything, they should've priced the iPhone 4 a lot more aggressively, even though the prices have been standard in all generations basically. Families aren't going to be able to get their hands on iPhone 4's like that.
And the 'Big News' commercial blows!
"Honey, I'm pregnant."
-"No way!"
And the 'Big News' commercial blows!
"Honey, I'm pregnant."
-"No way!"
Very good ads, rather happy to see these!
But the Think Different Campaign is still my favorite
But the Think Different Campaign is still my favorite
I don't think Apple "waits" for anything. If they know it's a good product/service they go with it. Wifi isn't the most portable connectivity agent but it does offer fast down/up speeds. Plus I thought a lot of skype 3G calls get dropped...
And I don't like the ads.
Well, I should get packing because my mom (who lives out of state) loves seeing my hair when I get it done. She loves seeing how my style is evolving.
I used to describe it. Next, I took pictures each time at the salon (every 4-6 weeks). Now, she gets her iPhone 4 this week. We'll be able to facetime so that I can show it to her in motion. I think it's awesome.
I concur. I work in business development. My experience has been that most of my colleagues, and clients (successful business people over the age of 55...over 70 even) all have iphones, and are extremely tech savvy. They seem to embrace technology and see the value in it from a business and productivity perspective. These are the old dudes you see walking out of the Apple Store with 27" Imacs.
facetime
How long do you think we have until porn finds its way into iphone 4 and we hear about facetime sex? What will they call it? Sextime?
How long do you think we have until porn finds its way into iphone 4 and we hear about facetime sex? What will they call it? Sextime?
Really!? Are you being a troll or are you just so completely out of touch with technology that you are sincerely asking?
In short, if you are in a place with WiFi, you can use Facetime (or Safari or any other technology that uses WiFi) to communicate with anyone any where in the world who is also on their own WiFi. How do you not know this?
And Wifi does not count against your data allowance, 3G does (luckily Facetime doesn't use 3G data yet.) So it costs nothing.
Jeeze the hating trolls are out today... every page with someone saying "they're holding it wrong" even though it wouldn't matter since it's using WiFi and not 3G (and no matter how I hold my iPhone 4, I NEVER get the dropped 3G signal bars, and I will be uploading a video shortly to prove it.)