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Apple Expands 'There's More to iPhone' Campaign With New Videos
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Apple is promoting a false sense of privacy. Technically, Apple does monetize its customers by selling access to them. For X billion dollars, they made it convenient for Google to be your default browser search service.
Personally, I think the risks haven't been adequately identified. I'm more concerned about hackers than targeted advertisements. And I'm also more dubious of the tech companies who made this environment possible and want to sell me a solution.
Amen. It's naive to trust any tech company's Siren Song.
Personally, I think the risks haven't been adequately identified. I'm more concerned about hackers than targeted advertisements. And I'm also more dubious of the tech companies who made this environment possible and want to sell me a solution.
Amen. It's naive to trust any tech company's Siren Song.
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That is called anonymity, not privacy.
Seems like people don't really care about privacy, they just care that google is making money and they don't like it.
Baking privacy into the entire Apple experience is what makes iPhone the complete package that nobody else can compete against.
Times change. It’s a different market with different competition. They’ve adapted accordingly. Privacy is big talking point right now.
Lol, just watched the ads. They’re clueless like most of the things they do imo.
Who in the hell is interested in seeing a phone getting dismantled when you’re in the market for buying a new one.
You should at least expect it’s safe in handling your data. Nothing new to show to or compelling reasons to get it. Only irritating noises. Apple has become irritating noise.
Hmm, I have mixed feelings about these. They are great points, but they are more about Apple itself as a brand (privacy focused, environmentally aware). Even the remote erase thing is not iPhone specific, but more of a feature of iOS and iCloud.
So I'm not sure what Apple is trying to do here.
So I'm not sure what Apple is trying to do here.
lmao all ads are self promotion - it's an ad.
Apple does have billboards. I've seen huge Apple posters in MRT stations in Singapore. I've also seen Apple billboards in highways during the shot on iPhone campaign.
Billboards do present a challenge. You cannot measure their effectiveness accurately. Digital ads, on the other hand, is highly measurable.
this boggles my mind. I'm pretty damn critical of many decisions that Apple's executives make. I don't think anyone on these boards doubts that. And some probably ignores me and considered me a "hater" (even though i'm not).
but what do you expect? these are commercials... for a product. commercials are completely utterly normal and expected mode of advertising for a product / service and has been that way since the day street criers yelled on the corner advertising services.
there is nothing wrong with commercials... except maybe for the sheer amount of them we get inundated with everyday, but to hate on a company for promoting something they are trying to sell is just ... bizarre.
Actually, the pressure is on Samsung. Samsung is giving free TVs as gifts when you order the Galaxies in some markets. Samsung is so pressured that they are actually making competitive products, the Galaxy Mxx series, to compete with the Chinese.so Samsung S10 pressure is working
Should their ads be dissing Samsung and showing their products???
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High res cameras aren’t as good as smaller size sensors with larger pixels.
But if you want to have “spec bragging rights” that’s how android tries to compete.
While I agree with you about explicit opt-in required for data collection and advertising tracking, unless your devices are some how magically different than my device, we absolutely have a mandatory opt-in policy. in fact, it's illegal not to for data collection from Canada.
Both Android and iOS phones during the setup process explicity ask, or warn you that by using the device you are opting in and that if you wish not to, stop then.
The fact there aren't good alternatives that don't datamine us, isn't Apple or Google's fault. there have been a couple attempts to create a phone OS that did not participate. Do you know what happened to them? They died. Nobody cared. (well, I did, but they were so barren in support from third parties, they might as well have been stillbirth)
BBOS10, FireFox OS, Ubuntu Mobile. they weren't half bad.
Gotta love all the Apple haters on this forum. Their obsessiveness over them is truly hilarious.
More like, lol, you think you know about marketing better than Apple, the most profitable company in the world.
Apple made $60B in profit in 2018. #2 was $23B.
Tell me more about how Apple doesn't know how to market their products.
Apple is not a nonprofit. They make ads because that drives revenue. Normal business practices.
Yes, all ads are pretentious in that they try to make a product or brand more important than it likely is.
All ads are self-promoting by definition. Did you have a point?
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so Samsung S10 pressure is working
Android with it's unsafe store, security holes, and selling personal data? Nope. Not working at all
The logic is a) that they should not have/collect my data and b) that the ad tries to imply that your data was safe.
It about being aware of the differences between “with natural ingredients” and “from natural ingredients” where you forget that “natural” can mean ugly things over discussing that wording difference.
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