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Apple Releases New 'iPad is Delicious' Commercial
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'learning'... throws me off!!!
All the rest are adjectives! playful, artful, delicious, current, scientific, MAGICAL... but then they have to throw me off with that one verb in the middle!
My iPad isn't learning... educational or academic would have better choices. I do like the Ad otherwise, and my iPad too.
All the rest are adjectives! playful, artful, delicious, current, scientific, MAGICAL... but then they have to throw me off with that one verb in the middle!
My iPad isn't learning... educational or academic would have better choices. I do like the Ad otherwise, and my iPad too.
No, that would only work for the visible sky. It has a compass, a gps, and an accelerometer that displays the constellations and stars that you have pointed it at. Clouds, ceilings, and the planet don't get it the way. It's called star walk and it works on iPhone too. Really great app.
Unlike the iPhone and iPod touch which remain such a device no matter what you are doing with it, something about the size of the iPad feels right in the hands as a tool. So the iPad disappears when you use it and in its place it becomes a steering wheel for a racing game, or a hardcover book, or a movie theatre. The magic is the way it truly disappears into whatever function you are using it for.
I was skeptical too. Then I tried it and realized it just engenders an affection I've not felt before for a tech device. That's the magic.
Wait, does the iPad have a compass? I can't see how StarWalk would work without one.
You do realize that several people think flash right is magical.
to them the iPad is jesus. and so apple's commercial is appealing to them
Bash religion? Surely not. Mac zealots are 'religious'. No, I don't bash the religious...I just don't accept a religious doctrine's definition of 'God', no matter what book it's written in. Only human arrogance can assume that 'God', or anything beyond the human level of understanding, can be defined by human beings. Have you ever tried teaching Calculus to an ant? Can't be done. I've tried. It's impossible. On the scale of the universe, you're an ant. Even more insignifant in fact, relatively speaking.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand and the bigger debate at issue here than religion...the iPad CAN be defined and therefore is not 'magical'. =)
Agreed! I hate it when a list does that. The iPad is learning. Doesn't really make sense in the same way.
I do describe it as magical to friends and family, and not one person has mocked. Geeks are not the real world.
You may be right about some people having a laugh here, but I think others are quite serious in their righteous indignation about the "misuse" of the word. Geeks have a certain logical and literal mindset that works quite well as they develop tech, and when they find an example in the world that does not fit that logical and literal mindset, they get picky about it. They try to correct the world to make it fit their mindset.
I think that's at least some of what causes this place to erupt every time the "magical" word is used. They keep trying to think of the literal definition they are used to and get upset when they find the world does not think that way. So illogical.
amen to that, i have been waiting for that since April, how much longer do you think? this fall, winter, spring?
Its not so much the use of the actual word 'magical' but of its its abuse and wrong contextual usage.
Quite rightly - there is nowt in any way magical about ANY computer, metaphorically speaking or not .. its hardware, folks. It has no actual feelings .. only your own misdirected ones ...
It doesnt think. It has no 'magical' feelings. No. Really. I know this. How?.
I actually spoke directly to an iPad when I was in the Aberdeen Apple Store yesterday in fact - when I was up there visiting relatives an' that .. and I said "Are you really magical?" Directly, like. To it. An' that.
So there was no way could it in any way be misconstrued that I was aiming my simple question to any other person or product in the Store. Just to this iPad. (And a top of the range version into the bargain)
And its considered response?. No blimmin' reply.
Thats what!.
Well.
I wasn't taking no reply for an answer.
So I thought ... "Who do I talk to?"
I thought ... "Who do I get in touch with?"
I could pay nearly seven hundred quid to reasonably expect to have a civilised conversation with what after all is the top-rank version of this new fangled half-arsed laptop thingy that looks like Shrek's iPod Touch or summink ...
And, I've got pride.
And I am not going to be 'talked to' like that by anyone or anything - let alone an IPad (whether it be top of the range or not)
So I turned to my wife and said "Look - this iPad. If it was really magical wouldn't it be answering my questions in a civil fashion? Cos it clearly isnt"
She agreed. "You're right. Its is a top of the range model of the iPad. Its supposed to be magical. You're not being unreasonable in expecting it to have the decency to expect it to give a civil answer back. You want to see someone about it. Go to the top man ...the Manager"
So I went straight up .. I stormed up. To the Genius counter.
Because, lets face it ... I've got a temper. I'm human.
Without any prior appointment made or owt. I said to the bloke there.
With all the dignity I could muster.
I said: "Is this the way to run a computer showroom?"
You know what bothers me even more? The fact that the descriptive words came AFTER the events they described. I can't explain why, but it just really put me off. It should have been the other way around. Maybe it's because I was watching the video without sound...
That gives me an idea for an app:
It has voice recognition. When it hears the question, "Are you magical?" it replies, "Yes, now quit bothering me while I continue casting spells."
It has voice recognition. When it hears the question, "Are you magical?" it replies, "Yes, now quit bothering me while I continue casting spells."
lol if it was just a hype, it would have died down by now dont you think...maybe your just one of those cats that have a hard time adjusting to new things that come out....iPad is great and have numbers and customers to prove it. Quit hating and go get you an iPad!
I'm also waiting to see how iPad behaves with the iOS4 and multitasking, before buying one. I got so angry with iOS4 and iPhone 3G, completely unusable, that now I want to wait and see.
By the way, anyone can guess which is the sketch application they use in the "art" slide?
Here's to hoping that the web follows Apple's lead and pushes Magical in our faces daily.
Exactly!
Also in this commercial, the term is used in conjunction with images of the sky charting app which at least on one level is conveys the idea of wonder at the natural world and what the heck is wrong with that ?
stargazing can be magical
wonder, excitement, it was a magical evening... etc.
so you killjoys can go take a hike.
what's the name of the very first cooking app? It has the word Delicious and moist and xxx and whatever after...
thanks!
it's called the photo cookbook and it looks lovely! I just bought it
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id374473999?mt=8