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Apple Promotes iPad Pro in New Ad With 'The Little Mermaid' Musical Spin
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I would think this ad is aimed at switchers from Windows rather than current Apple users.
What is it with you people and your insistence that everything must be one or the other?
I see that I am not the only person who still has a vintage Belkin FlipBlade.
good ad
In a currently unlisted ad on YouTube, Apple is promoting the versatility, portability, and power of the M1 iPad Pro in a fun musical inspired by The Little Mermaid's "Part of Your World" soundtrack.
In the ad, which features the main character using an M1 iPad Pro, Magic Keyboard, and Apple Pencil, multiple users can be seen struggling with their old PCs indoors while hoping that they can someday use an iPad Pro instead. The lyrics and soundtrack of the ad are completely based around The Little Mermaid's "Part of Your World," but the visuals tell the majority of the story.
In one scene, an office employee using an old Windows PC can be seen looking out at a girl using an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard in a park while singing "up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun." The ad ends with all the characters singing "wish I could be, part of that world," referencing the world of using an iPad Pro.
The ad, uploaded on June 4, is currently unlisted on YouTube, meaning only those with a link will be able to watch it. It's unclear why Apple has decided not to make it public or if it plans to in the near future.
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It was not the intent of the ad to say why the iPad is better than a laptop. When Coke makes an ad, they show people who are thirsty drink and enjoy a coke, then say "next time you are thirsty, choose a Coke." They do not go into a lengthy discussion about all of the possible alternatives for slaking a thirst and why Coke is the best choice of all options. Same here. "Ever sat inside tethered to a wall wishing you could work somewhere else? Buy an iPad and you can." This is not the same as claiming an iPad is better than a laptop.
I think you might have completely missed the point. I agree they are more tech savvy. As you can see if you scroll up and read my post, I said as much. I also said that they are less tolerant of BS and want cleaner solutions. Even in your examples of gaming, streaming, etc. young people are demanding and getting tools streamlined of unrelated complexity, so they can get down to actual task they want to do, like gaming, streaming, video editing, etc. Do you really know young people who want to go back to setting physical jumper switches, playing with config files, memory managers, and driver downloads just to play a game like we did in the old days?
I didn't say that that won't be able to operate an HDMI. They'll just be mad if you ask them to. And if you said, instead of HDMI you can just AirPlay your content to the TV, how many young people do you know that would say, "no, it is important I learn the ways of the copper wire just as my forebears did."
There is a lot of nonsense, but I think it is coming from your direction.
Did you watch the same ad that everyone else did? Why do you think that the ad was meant to market the iPad as a worldwide replacement for work computers?
Apple sold you 3 devices, and you think that they should put a lot of effort into making it so that you only need to buy 2 devices from them instead? Are you sure you should be giving them advice?
You missed the point of what I said. You said literally everyone needs a laptop over an iPad. I don't think that's true. You claim that there 100 use cases for things every single person needs to do in their life that they can do on a laptop and not on an iPad. I can't even think of 5.
Everyone needs access to computing in their lives. A surprisingly small number of people need what a laptop can do that an iPad can't.
Darth Tulhu
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This ad represents me EXACTLY.
I'm tethered to a PC all the time when at the office or working from home.
But when work is done, it's iPad time.
iPad in the backyard, iPad in the toilet, iPad in the car (when the wife drives), iPad at the hospital (when we get sick), iPad in bed (when I can't sleep), iPad on the couch, iPad in my kid's bedrooms, iPad at the restaurant...
I bring that thing everywhere, my whole family uses it, we pass it around, huddle around it, etc.
It is really great. I LOVE all the swiping, pinching, drawing, flipping it around, twirling the pencil in between art strokes, the whole bit.
I get more and more proficient with it every day, and fire up my Macs less and less.
I'm tethered to a PC all the time when at the office or working from home.
But when work is done, it's iPad time.
iPad in the backyard, iPad in the toilet, iPad in the car (when the wife drives), iPad at the hospital (when we get sick), iPad in bed (when I can't sleep), iPad on the couch, iPad in my kid's bedrooms, iPad at the restaurant...
I bring that thing everywhere, my whole family uses it, we pass it around, huddle around it, etc.
It is really great. I LOVE all the swiping, pinching, drawing, flipping it around, twirling the pencil in between art strokes, the whole bit.
I get more and more proficient with it every day, and fire up my Macs less and less.
Darth Tulhu
macrumors 68020
I think it is a business decision second, but a user-experience decision first.
The guts of the machine are irrelevant. It's all about how Apple intends the iPad to be used. I get it's not what you Mac fans want, but that is what Apple has decided from the beginning: it sits in between an iPhone and a Mac. For many of us, this is all we need (iPhone/iPad combo).
An iPad is not, and never has been meant to be a pointer-as-a-primary-input-method device, like a Mac is.
iPad software will always be tailored for finger use, because it's a tablet. The form-factor determines the type of software on it, and the iPad was built around touch. Adding precision to a touch-based OS is "easy", and Apple did it.
Adding the imprecision of touch to a desktop OS, to fit it into a device that was already designed for touch from the ground up, and already contains the software to match, is a waste of time and resources (from Apple's perspective).
Thus, Apple will refine and polish iPadOS, add capabilities here and there that make sense, but at the core it will REMAIN iPadOS.
And macOS WILL NOT get touch. EVER. The two OSes will look the same, and "feel" the same, but they won't WORK the same way.
So, if an individual can't stand iPadOS, then the iPad is not the right device for them. Anything else is just wishful thinking.
Darth Tulhu
macrumors 68020
Apple already makes that tablet accessory. It's called an iPad. You can draw on ALL of them.
Think it is self-explaining...
I guess that your body is always hunched over in order to read something on that small display.
Darth Tulhu
macrumors 68020
They do, just not for EVERYBODY.
That has been the crux of most of their iPad advertising: "do you really need a full-on laptop, or will an iPad do?" For me, the answer was the iPad.
Yep, give it up. Apple will never give you want you want here. An Apple version of the Microsoft Surface will never exist.
However, a good alternative is to pickup an older iPad (I bought a refurb 2018 3rd-gen 12.9" Pro for the wife for less than a new Air) and use it as an iPad ALONG with your Mac.
Just grab the best tool for the task at hand, as needed. An MBA and the cheapest Sidecar-capable iPad would be a sweet and portable and flexible dual-screen setup.
I’d agree with you if apple didn’t keep trying to make the iPad like a conventional computer, e.g:
- file system
- multi tasking
- trackpad/keyboard support etc
Are the other family members who use the same iPad aware that you use it in the toilet?
You will get back, neck, shoulder problems and will have a bad posture. That's for sure. 😁
I did. Erm... because they are showing people behind their workplace desktops, gleeing over new iPads? And slogan being "your next computer"? 😆
I get it, it's just a silly Ad.