Apple Online Store Gains New Toys Ahead of the Holidays, Now Offering Barbie and Skylanders

[Alimar]

What about G iJoe?

 

[Bubba Satori]

Is Apple now a toy company? Very sad.

Now?

 

[AppleScruff1]

Now this is innovation.

 

[SgtPepper12]

Historically the fuller figure was always the norm.

Not really.

 

[SeattleMoose]

Historically the fuller figure was always the norm.

Ah yes...a porker history revisionist.

 

[Gym Hellwig]

Barbie is actively trying to drag girls down in STEM, and she's pretty good at it, too.

 

[J InTech82]

sounds like a little devil's advocate comment. would healthier slimmer girls feel a bit differently about their bodies as compared to societal/toy-maker executives' mass marketed depictions directed at corn-syrup guzzlers of today? yeah, probably (and we can then debate teachers vs parents vs government), but regardless, barbie specifically is the worst of the bunch as far as this goes. def not in line with apple's brand and message.

And that's where the parent needs to come in and do their job. Sadly this day in age a lot of parents think that iPads, iPhones, etc are a better substitute then actual parenting.

 

[Gym Hellwig]

If you think that's an example of misandry, you're are immensely uneducated in the matter.

Yeah, it's completely different from barbie. COMPLETELY. Don't ask why. It just is.

 

[RayDonovan]

What the hell? Who is actually allowing this nonsense to go ahead?

Steve must be fuming!

 

[inscrewtable]

Not really.

the only evidence we have is Art through the ages, and if you check it out, you'll find it's a 'yes, really'.

 

[iososx]

Barbie? Steve would never...

Apple's looking rather desperate, not for revenue, but their unstoppable need for attention, perception as a cool company, and a distraction from the buggy iOS 8.

 

[diipii]

Yet another new low for Apple.

 

[Olivier Giround]

At least on the games front it wasn't until the late 80's before they were common household items.

Wrong.

Pong, Atari and Intellivision all began in the '70s.

 

[diddl14]

What's the problem?
Of course you need to 'draw and push' innocent future gizmo zombies into the fifth circle of Cupertino.
Besides, there were children at Jonestown, too.

No problem, just sounded evil..

 

[redscull]

for some, parents can indeed be the problem. for others it's a personality trait.

some folks who get showered in love and sound guidance from birth onward feel nothing but despair and isolation. look at siblings with their vastly different outlooks and mental issues/abilities, etc.. kids are as varied and different as adults are - the notion that they're all tabula rasa until they hit puberty is a farce, imo.

You're right in the sense that, for some kids/people, no amount of good parenting would make a difference. But, those are hopeless cases and irrelevant to this topic because, again, not Barbie's fault they are broken. Blaming Barbie is an irresponsible action to hide either bad parenting or an unwillingness to acknowledge that someone is genetically damaged.

You can't sugar-coat and white-wall-pad the whole world, only small pockets of it. And that's where you put those people; you don't take Barbies/etc away from everyone else who can handle toys/fantasy just fine.

 

[reboot81]

I'd never buy that for my kids. A non-sexist doll like Lammily yes, but not something that unreal as a bimbodoll.

https://lammily.com/

 

[c1phers]

Osmo and MiP Robot, I just found gifts for my nephews for Christmas

 

[charlituna]

And I'm glad they sell movies and comics with male super heros that have enormous pecs and rippling abs so that boys can feel bad about their puny arms.

This. It's up to parents to talk to their kids and parent them. It's the parents test let the kids eat the junk food, play video games all day. It's the parents that don't explain to kids that Barbie etc are an exaggeration not an ideal.

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LOL so Apple is trying to be Radio Shack now?

Nope. Cause at Radio Shack you get parts and make your own toys. Not get them handed to you ready to go.

Appke perhaps should be more like Radio Shack.

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Is Apple now a toy company? Very sad.

Some folks have been saying that since the first ipad. Only they use the PC term "consumption device"

 

[SgtPepper12]

the only evidence we have is Art through the ages, and if you check it out, you'll find it's a 'yes, really'.

If you cherrypick a few pictures by a few individual painters you could come to this conclusion, but while the typical female figure definitely was fuller than today's models, they definitely were fairly slim. But I don't see how that would change anything. It's still unhealthy and I still would never teach our kids that it's a wise idea to aim for this kind of figure. I just don't think it really helps anyone. It's kind of short sighted to think that.

 

[Tech198]

k... this is why i never go to the Apple Stores....

There is a toy story right across the corner anyway...

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Oh please not the Barbie Computer Engineer...

OMG NO!!!

PLEASE NO!!!

I BEG YOU!!!

 

[bbeagle]

Umm, the story is about Barbie. No "guy dolls" in the story, so I made no sarcastic crack about guy dolls.

Boy dolls AND girl dolls are the same. Both are not 'natural', and both are not representative of a normal person. So, no reason to talk about GIRL dolls being not representative.

The real issue is with girls themselves. They need to understand their own body image is okay and not try to compete with barbie dolls. Guys seem smarter this way. Most don't try to compete with GI Joes, or the Incredible Hulk or chop off their weiners to look like Ken.

 

[0098386]

Wrong.

Pong, Atari and Intellivision all began in the '70s.

But they weren't common. The NES was the one to come along and create the modern console market (65 million systems)
I can't tell if you're just being pedantic because they were "the first home consoles". Intellivision was sold only in the US and had 3 million sales, we'd call that a flop now. The 3rd Console Generation was when they became common household items. Surely you know this?