Apple Debuts New Poetry-Themed 'Your Verse' iPad TV Ad

[SirLance99]

This is how the normals do it

 

[Robert Leonard]

Might want to take a look at this link. Just sayin.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Bias is a fact of life. Another fact is that Apple choreographed every second and every word of that piece and chose to place fools and Christians together.

 

[Fattytail]

Bias is a fact of life. Another fact is that Apple choreographed every second and every word of that piece and chose to place fools and Christians together.

You're missing the point. Confirmation bias is looking (unconsciously or not) for and interpreting things in a way that supports a predetermined conclusion. You are clearly looking through Christian-tinted glasses and finding something that very likely isn't there. Should we also be concluding that in the preceding few seconds to the shot you refer to, that Apple is making some commentary about "the faithless" and those who hikers through the Himalayans? :roll eyes:

 

[Robert Leonard]

You're missing the point. Confirmation bias is looking (unconsciously or not) for and interpreting things in a way that supports a predetermined conclusion. You are clearly looking through Christian-tinted glasses and finding something that very likely isn't there. Should we also be concluding that in the preceding few seconds to the shot you refer to, that Apple is making some commentary about "the faithless" and those who hikers through the Himalayans? :roll eyes:

I have found something that is there - the reality that Apple chose to create and run a commercial that contains a statement and image conflating "the word fools and an image of a cathedral". A first year editor could have caught the inappropriate association. You have assumed that it is all just an accident. Not sure why you think it is an accident. Bias perhaps?

 

[vpro]

So true.

This is how the normals do it

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These ads are so sensational and "feel good" crap, just sell the darn over priced gadget and call it a day, if ads were just a millisecond long and just an image of the eye pad air that would be enough. These ads are still too long. I can't wait for that day when all ads are no longer 30 seconds but rather zero seconds

 

[TogetherinParis]

Hey! I wrote that!

Huddle up!
Wow. Isn't it nice to hear your own words melodically cadenced by Robin Williams and on a TV commercial! Deja Vu all over again.
The text was written when, after I contributed the unattributed poems for the project (cave solo was originally for flute), I heard that the project ended with one of the kids committing suicide. I patched the bit together, in a bid to turn the story away from chosen death's permanence. So permanent, so ending, so what?
So when you hear it, I know all the real hubbub is gone and almost nobody will ever see this, but if you do, YOU do, then remember that suicide is always a bad idea, an empty useless nothing and no way to go.