The iPhone.... There's nothing quite like the boring rows of icons you've come to love. It's magical!
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Apple Launches 'Why There's Nothing Quite Like iPhone' Web Campaign
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They'd better do something since they only sold 57 billion of them last quarter.
Apple is getting everybody ready for the next unveiling of the "new" iPhone.
"You gotta have it!"
"You gotta have it!"
So many haters on a Apple fan forum. And so many overly strong opinions on of all things, an advertising campaign. Wow. I'm glad I don't live with most of you. I can only imagine what going to a grocery store or anywhere else with some of you is like. Btw, I've told people myself ever since I've had an iPhone that I think it's magical. To me it really is kinda magical. It may not be for some of you but for others it is. I think so many of you have become entirely too cynical/apathetic. Get over yourselves and whatever it is dragging you down in life and let others have some fun and enjoyment.
It must be a sad lonely life to be one of you (I'm going to every Apple article on the internet and copy and paste my comment that I brilliantly came up with in 1994). Having owned Macs for 20+ years, Have read that exact comment you posted thousands of times, Maybe it's you living in a mirage.
Anyway, Keep posting them, it gives millions of Mac users something to laugh at.
There's that word "magical" again.
They really are running out of ideas, aren't they?
They really are running out of ideas, aren't they?
If I gave you a Turing machine and told you it was way better than your standard decodethesecretnazistuff machine, would it not be magical just because you don't know how to use it?
My badly designed, rushed and underpowered 6+ reloading machine is...erm...magical.
Advertising hyperbole would be less eye-rolling if it weren't for the fact that the platform has been going in the opposite direction. The fit and finish on Apple products has been diminishing for a while now. It might be worse on other platforms, I don't know, but that's still not a free pass in my mind.
It feels weird that my 4s on iOS5 felt like a smoother experience back in 2011 than the 6 on ios8 in 2014.
It feels weird that my 4s on iOS5 felt like a smoother experience back in 2011 than the 6 on ios8 in 2014.
What makes a Great Phone and or Technology Device, common folks without PHD's in computer science or Goofy Geeks can use the device for the intended purpose. By the way, some of the folks you call stupid have PHD's and other degrees, and I would not call them stupid. The point, if a technology device requires your arragorance or expertise it will have limited value to the mainstream user. Apple does a very good job building useable devices for folks you call stupid, maybe that is why they are successful.
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The fact that this ad was published is insane. You can't even read the damn text. Poor job.
Well, it's true that there is nothing like the iPhone, because no one want's be like it software wise.
But this might come as a shocker to someone, but there is also nothing like the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 i have. And i can tell you that it's much more magical than the iPhone aswell as i can roll between pictures in Gallery by swiping the hand to the left and to the right with my hand over the screen. It can even show me pictures by hovering the finger like 1.5 cm over the screen to show the pictures in the Gallery and even accept calls without even touching the phone and so on.
Heck, i can even start to take pictures and record videos with the camera on the Note 4 without touching it by using my voice to.
That's magic.
But do you see Samsung goes around and call their phones for 'magical' which by the way is stupid to say as there is nothing with the word magic on an iPhone that any peoples with an average or higher IQ will believe on anyways?
But this might come as a shocker to someone, but there is also nothing like the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 i have. And i can tell you that it's much more magical than the iPhone aswell as i can roll between pictures in Gallery by swiping the hand to the left and to the right with my hand over the screen. It can even show me pictures by hovering the finger like 1.5 cm over the screen to show the pictures in the Gallery and even accept calls without even touching the phone and so on.
Heck, i can even start to take pictures and record videos with the camera on the Note 4 without touching it by using my voice to.
That's magic.
But do you see Samsung goes around and call their phones for 'magical' which by the way is stupid to say as there is nothing with the word magic on an iPhone that any peoples with an average or higher IQ will believe on anyways?
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There's even MORE idiots that have fallen for Windows commercials, They haven't the faintest idea what a processor or ram is, They just know if they move that mouse thingy and push a button something will happen, In my past years of working at electronic stores, Most Windows are totally clueless about computers beside knowing they can get a bargain store price on the Sunday ads, thats when most Windows shoppers go buy a PC, no hate here, just straight facts.
Oh the hyperbole! Apple, you make amazing products, but your use of hyperbole is quite comical at times. Just don't let it go to your head!
You're not wrong about that. There are many damn good reasons to buy Apple products, but most purchasers know very little about what they're buying. In some ways, that's as it should be, but ignorance is never healthy, even if you don't NEED to know anything to use the device. Knowledge is power!
Are you suggesting ignorance is the reason why 80% of the world uses Android?
I feel ya. You should see my mom use a Windows computer. If the internet is running slow and she clicks on something she try's not to move and stay really steady because "the computer thinks better if you don't shake it".
I think I'm one of the few people who appreciates the word "magical" in a consumer tech context.
What would you call it? There isn't a better word, in English, for what they're trying to say. It doesn't literally mean it's magic (duh) but if you just stop being jaded for 3 seconds and think back a few years, then really think about what we're doing with our handhelds.. It's amazing. Fast, incredibly powerful, empowering and easy to use. You can ask it to do things by voice.(!) Yes it was a steady improvement, but a very, very fast one which a lot of people have missed various steps along the way.
These ads aren't just aimed at us Apple old guard, how on earth do you put into words how potentially special these devices are? (Not just Apple's) We take a lot for granted.
It's like tech marches on and everyone ignores the journey.
What would you call it? There isn't a better word, in English, for what they're trying to say. It doesn't literally mean it's magic (duh) but if you just stop being jaded for 3 seconds and think back a few years, then really think about what we're doing with our handhelds.. It's amazing. Fast, incredibly powerful, empowering and easy to use. You can ask it to do things by voice.(!) Yes it was a steady improvement, but a very, very fast one which a lot of people have missed various steps along the way.
These ads aren't just aimed at us Apple old guard, how on earth do you put into words how potentially special these devices are? (Not just Apple's) We take a lot for granted.
It's like tech marches on and everyone ignores the journey.
Well, looks like inept Cook assembled a group of typical marketing goons fresh out of PR/marketing clown-college to make up for product deficiencies.
2015 marketing rules:
Talk fantastical nonsensical wonderland gibberish
Always include the word "amazing"
Include the word "magical"
I have a better strategy: How about you get back to making superior products, let the products sell themselves, and speak confidently and matter of factly of this product superiority (which is no longer the case with many Apple products, sadly).
Cook prefers inferior product, cost-cutting measures, compromise, and a heavy dose of marketing speak to cover up for the deficiencies.
2015 marketing rules:
Talk fantastical nonsensical wonderland gibberish
Always include the word "amazing"
Include the word "magical"
I have a better strategy: How about you get back to making superior products, let the products sell themselves, and speak confidently and matter of factly of this product superiority (which is no longer the case with many Apple products, sadly).
Cook prefers inferior product, cost-cutting measures, compromise, and a heavy dose of marketing speak to cover up for the deficiencies.
