It was a great ad for people who already hate Apple - perhaps it was aimed at Blackberry users and Android users considering defecting.
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It was a great ad for people who already hate Apple - perhaps it was aimed at Blackberry users and Android users considering defecting.
By who?
Again generalizing!
Your post paints you the same color as those who want to criticize.
OH, you never saw a cubist painting portrait or never heard of Quantum Mechanics.
: Boring!
I haven't read any other posts, apart from your reply. I'm sorry if you misread my tone. I'm not criticising the advert, but the sticklers on this site who apply strict logic to competitors adverts but never to their favourite brand.
And why did you link to QM and art, what has that go to do with my post?
So you have not tried them then. Sour grapes? You can buy a pair even if you don't have an iPhone 5. I bought a pair for my 4S for those time when I don't want to use my on ear Kliplich headphones.
They give me more bass than the the ones the 4S came with originally.
Why don't you go troll somewhere else?
If i fail to understand your sarcasm i am sorry. Looks like i did!
Why you ask?
"I guess the laws of physics are more like general guidelines"
QM disregard any law of physics before it, even Einstein did not fully grasp it, although some experiences he participated in showed the path to it.
As for the art, people were furious about cubism, at its time just because it pays no respect to Italian art.
I guess i took words figuratively, that is why i failed to understand your sarcasm.
You clearly meant that others will unlikely think the same, be as bold?
I wasn't attacking anyone. I was simply saying that if you find the latest crop of iPhone 5 ads condescending, my opinion is that it's more of a personal issue than an issue with the ads themselves.
You obviously don't have the ability to look at something objectively?
I thought these ads were pretty good.
I have a question for some of you in this thread which is, why do you come here and post negative comments in every single thread? Is it a hobby for you? Does it make yourself feel better about your lot in life or your purchase decisions?
You can love android or blackberry all you want but go do it somewhere else. I don't go over to crackberry or android central and troll like you do here so why not just give it a rest and find a different hobby? Try doing something positive with your lives and be content with what you have.
I have a 4S but I am willing to admit point that the iPhone 5 has over the 4S. I am content with what I have and I can be happy for those who do have an iPhone 5 and are enjoying it.
Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.
I have a question for some of you in this thread which is, why do you come here and post negative comments in every single thread? Is it a hobby for you? Does it make yourself feel better about your lot in life or your purchase decisions?
You can love android or blackberry all you want but go do it somewhere else. I don't go over to crackberry or android central and troll like you do here so why not just give it a rest and find a different hobby? Try doing something positive with your lives and be content with what you have.
I have a 4S but I am willing to admit point that the iPhone 5 has over the 4S. I am content with what I have and I can be happy for those who do have an iPhone 5 and are enjoying it.
Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.
This entire thread is hilarious!
When Apple creates an ad that shows off the simplicity and gorgeous design of its products, it is criticized for not advertising features. When Apple creates an ad that shows off the great features of its products, it is criticized for not advertising emotion.
There are so many iPhones out there, and everyone knows what it is. Apple doesn't have to convince anyone that the iPhone is beautiful or simple, most people already know that. What's wrong with Apple focusing on a handful of kick-ass features that you won't find in the competition?
These ads stick.
When Apple creates an ad that shows off the simplicity and gorgeous design of its products, it is criticized for not advertising features. When Apple creates an ad that shows off the great features of its products, it is criticized for not advertising emotion.
There are so many iPhones out there, and everyone knows what it is. Apple doesn't have to convince anyone that the iPhone is beautiful or simple, most people already know that. What's wrong with Apple focusing on a handful of kick-ass features that you won't find in the competition?
These ads stick.
Not the same.
I don't like these ads. Thry aren't the same, simple, calssy, talk about apple Ads. They are taking on the tone of every other ad now, sarcastic digs at other providers. The old VO talent added such a sense of lifestyle to the old ads. That being said just because they worked for Apple before doesn't mean they would work now. It seems they are taking the old Apple guy Vs. PC guy approach again now that they are in such high demand. For their sake I hope there right. But the Steve Jobs days are officially over. I hope they're new direction gravitates to more brilliance as opposed to more mainstream.
I don't like these ads. Thry aren't the same, simple, calssy, talk about apple Ads. They are taking on the tone of every other ad now, sarcastic digs at other providers. The old VO talent added such a sense of lifestyle to the old ads. That being said just because they worked for Apple before doesn't mean they would work now. It seems they are taking the old Apple guy Vs. PC guy approach again now that they are in such high demand. For their sake I hope there right. But the Steve Jobs days are officially over. I hope they're new direction gravitates to more brilliance as opposed to more mainstream.
thumb one, not sure why they went on about common sense, are they admitting phone manufacturers that had 4" 16:9 screens before them were right? everyone is left handed and has the same size hands? why not show a female hand too?
But wll it blend?
2 days..and still nothing from Mr. Dickson???!!!!
I want to see if it blends!!!
2 days..and still nothing from Mr. Dickson???!!!!
I want to see if it blends!!!
I don't adore that ad. It's really, really cheesy. That's the one ad out of these that I don't like. It's just insulting for Apple to act like I don't know how super-basic physics works.
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Supposedly, the black iPhone will blend better than the white one.
I purchased the Mid-2011 27" iMac but later in the year so it came with Lion, previously they were still being produced with Snow Leopard preinstalled. At that point I was pretty excited because I didn't want to pay for the software upgrade. So I pulled it out of the box and started to use Software Update to get it up-to-date and it was incredibly slow downloading the updates (literally hours over my home internet connection which is nowhere near as slow with my Mid-2008 (pre-unibody) MacBook Pro), then after about a week of installing, updating, then using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, I had sporadic crashes while trying to save work. Then another crash, then another and more after that, every time losing the work I had done. I did a Google search for incompatibility issues with Lion and found that most people had some success after doing a fresh reinstall of the OS (after just having spent HOURS updating the first time), so I knew there wasn't a physical disc in the box when I unpacked it, so I had assumed that Apple had installed it on an invisible partition on the drive, so I restarted the computer while holding down the alt/option key and sure enough there was a Recovery option. I selected that and it prompted me to DOWNLOAD IT FROM THE INTERNET. A WHOLE OS, ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME!!!!?!? So I didn't have a choice, it was either that or pack everything up and lug it through a mall to an Apple store. After an entire day of downloading Lion and I mean that literally, it took the better part of 8 hours to download and install the OS, which I'm assuming I would have to do again, if I ever had anymore problems.
To make a long story short, because I'm actually tired of recounting the experience and typing at this point. I reinstalled and everything was still the same. Lion and Mountain Lion are different than Snow Leopard in every imaginable way as far as convenience is concerned. Apple does not provide any physical backup of the OS for starters. I know you can download one from the App store and make a USB key, which I was thinking about doing before Apple Care told me that I would have to pay for THAT copy of Lion. The only "free" copy I get is when I use the recovery partition to download it. I've both talked to Apple Care and Apple employees at the mall and both have confirmed it to be the case, so don't try and dispute it by saying that it should be so, because I thought it was BS myself and tried to find a way around it and couldn't. So that's one of the primary differences. I enjoy having a physical recovery backup no matter how bad Apple does not want me to.
Updates are slow in Lion on my mac, since I've downgraded back to Snow Leopard with the Recovery OS disc I bought from Apple Care for $17.99 (THE BEST $17.99 I'VE EVER SPENT), updates are normal.
There are no more hangups or crashes while saving my work in any of my Adobe products.
All of the extra BS that Apple has added to make the desktop experience more like the iPhone and iPad are now gone and my computer has gone back to being a computer and ceases to annoy the s*** out of me every time I try and download a YouTube video and can't find the activity window.
In finder I can turn off the little previews but still get the detailed information about the file, which under Lion would hang up my computer if it was a video file.
Basically, my computer with the 32GB of RAM that I got from OWC is acting like a computer with 32GB of RAM and not a $3,000 POS now I've gone back to Snow Leopard and I am more than willing to never update the OS because it's the best that is ever going to come out of Apple for now on.
I deleted Front Row using AppZapper because Apple can't make iTunes categorize movie files as TV shows, even if you change them manually, they show up as 'Untitled' in Front Row. Apple should spend more time on working out the bugs in iTunes than adding unnecessary features like Launchpad. That's what the Dock or the Applications folder in the dock are for. Same amount of clicks to use both (Applications Folder/Launchpad) even less if have the application pinned to the dock. Sorry that you like the OS to be more iPhone like, but I do not. It's frivolous fluff/bulk I don't want added to my computing experience. Full Screen Apps are annoying, especially when you start a movie and it does that retarded animation of sliding over into another screen. I'd like to know what idiot thought of that. Why not just have it go full screen in the existing space, rather than having a useless transition animation like that. It's pointless bulk. Period.
Snow Leopard is not only faster than Lion and Mountain Lion with an SSD and 32GB of RAM...it's faster. Period. No fluff, just a streamlined computing experience with no slow downs or irritations. Gettin' work done...fast & efficiently. After having Snow Leopard on this machine, I can go back to saying "it just works" and not feel I'm saying it ironically. Also, I'm sure if Steve Jobs had anything to do with Lion, it was minimal at best. At that point, I'm assuming Tim Cook had already been running things behind the scenes before it was officially announced that he would be taking over. Steve Jobs was probably spending most of his time trying to find an alternative to dying. A person like Steve Jobs did not have a defeatist attitude and I'm sure that even if the medical professionals told him that he only had a slim chance he was spending anything and everything he had in order to find alternatives. Besides, he was the one who had to get up to shower in the mornings and see his self wasting away and quietly have that image in his mind all day at work. I doubt he was thinking about Lion and whether or not LaunchPad was a revolutionary idea. I'm sure he was thinking about his wife and kids and what they would do without him instead of micromanaging Lion or having any kind of relevant input. See the point. Don't blame Lion on Jobs, I'm sure Lion was just the beginning of the Tim Cook era. Which I am in no way impressed with. Everything that's come out has been adding fluff upon fluff instead of making things that "just work" and horrendous marketing.
Apple turned the corner on being a platform for content creation and somehow became the platform for content consumption (I'm assuming because it's more profitable) with the iPhone and now it's designs are starting to suffer from it.
Agreed!!
People like to bitch, especially when they only see their viewpoint.
All the ads are fine and explain the user friendliness of an iPhone
and some features new to iOS 6.
The thumbs and smaller but bigger are more for insiders, i.e. people who already have iphones or follow tech blogs.
Singly out one ad over another also misses the point . These will run at different times and channels etc.etc. and the idea is "saturation" i.e. eventually people will see all 5 ads and get a good picture of the iPhone 5.
To all the doomsday posters here, I wish you had a chance to create and make an ad and then put it on MacRumors and read the comments. The book a session with your shrink if you couldn't take it.
Actually with YouTube you could, but you are probably too lazy or just plain NOT creative.
So, if you don't create anything and just consume, you'd be smarter to shut up!
You cannot get stupider ( lacking common sense, that is ).
Did apple say - how super-basic physics works?
What they meant is think outSide the box ( law of physics ).
English is not my mother-language for your acknowledgement.
I have a question for some of you in this thread which is, why do you come here and post positive comments in every single thread? Is it a hobby for you? Does it make yourself feel better about your lot in life or your purchase decisions?
These are...quite bad
They set a completely different tone to the usual Apple ads. They lack emotion and seem to be playing up to this whole rivalry Apple and Samsung fanboys have going on right now.
How does the light and panorama and ear bud play up to the rivalry? Even in the thumb one they try to explain why it's taller, not wider... Too much explanation in the ads, that's the only difference..
I'm not sure if you understand the ads or my comment fully, then. They act like one dimension of the iPhone getting bigger and the other getting smaller is magic and defies the laws of physics.
If you buy .... say... a property or a ranch, sometime you go there just to be there... And feel good about it. You don't usually go to others ranch and say how rubbish it is...(unless you are jealous). Now which category do you fall in?
The first advert just leaves Apple looking seriously arrogant. The physics advert was incredibly cringworthy and horrible. Truth be told, they all sucked.