Apple Releases New Santa-Themed Ad for iPhone 4S and Siri

[Cougarcat]

Well there are over 7 billion people in the world.

There are 2 billion children in the world according to this article from october.
Eliminating the "naughty" children and the fact that usually more than one child living at a household, Santa should have much less than 3.7 billion appointments.

Maybe his elves are suing him for poor working conditions, and he has many lawyer appointments.

 

[charlituna]

The big S is going to be slammed with international data usage.

Nope. North Pole Cellular doesn't charge roaming fees

 

[Nicken]

Apple at it's best.

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

Boy I sure hope Cleveland won't be 14*

Thought it was a cute commercial when I saw it earlier.

Oh and the "sequences shortened" part, maybe Siri2.0 won't take so long.

 

[Kentochan]

So that's how Santa does it all

 

[Mev75]

But it's not 4G!!! Why would anyone want one?!

because 4S is better than 4G...

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

Who cares about "4G" anyways. Everyone I know that has it never uses it and keeps it disabled. I'd rather have stable technology then battery draining and spotty connections.

 

[jared_kipe]

Maybe Santa can restore Siri's service to my phone.

 

[dvkid]

Siri can't read email...

and hear an email from Mrs. Claus reminding him to "go easy on the cookies".

That'd be a text message, not an email.

 

[adamtj11]

14 degrees cold ? what? try living in Ireland for cold.

Edit: Forgot you Americans use Farenheight.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

How odd that Apple would be putting so much emphasis on advertising a "beta" product.

 

[Glideslope]

Nice.

Steve is gone and they are still on focus.

 

[snowburnt]

anyone notice how Siri says million when it displays billion? Gonna have a lot of disappointed kids.

 

[chairguru22]

well if santa uses an iphone 4s... i gotta use one too..

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anyone notice how Siri says million when it displays billion? Gonna have a lot of disappointed kids.

no... Siri says billion...

 

[MacAddict1978]

The commercial only covers 18 mins 11:23 to 11:41 I think.

I'd normally say you have to much time on your hands, but thanks for taking the time to spray some troll-a-way on the OP for us

Why does Santa have an American accent if he is from Finland?

Depends on what version of the Christmas tale you want to tell... the real one... of the one kids care about for the past 100 years about a magical man that lives in the unpopulated north pole.

I don't think people want to see Santa as a rotted corpse in a commercial, so why comment about his voice? The real Chris Cringle would not be pretty at all.

3.7 billion children in the world?

Just because Santa skips your house, doesn't mean he skips everyone else's <g> Do you think kids watching have any idea Santa wouldn't visit them when they're adults too? Don't post on anything Christmas if you need to be so literal. It's a make believe holiday thing that's fun... enjoy it for what it is. We all know what it isn't.

Some of Apple's recent ads have been terribly cheesy, but it's ok for this one to be - it features Santa Claus! You can't have a heart warming Christmas commercial featuring Santa without some cheesiness.

I hate the iPad ads. It's the voice over... I feel like any moment Sally Stothers will jump out of the iPad with starving African children and ask for 39 cents a day... they have that serious feel in the voice over and music, no matter what app they might be showing off. Apple is always at it's best when they're having fun in an ad, or being really creative.

Speaking of Sally Strothers, with inflation these days, if she were still asking for money for starving kids, how much a day do you think she'd want? A buck or two a day?

 

[entropys]

Hmmmmm, green cookies

I wonder what ingredient makes that biscuit green and puts a smile on Santa's face?

 

[MacAddict1978]

There are 2 billion children in the world according to this article from october.
Eliminating the "naughty" children and the fact that usually more than one child living at a household, Santa should have much less than 3.7 billion appointments.

Maybe his elves are suing him for poor working conditions, and he has many lawyer appointments.

Already said it, but it has to be said again. GO AWAY GRINCH.
It's christmas... none of it is real... it's fun and make believe... The ad does a great job of selling features to an adult on a grown up product.... but they did the whole santa thing to get kids excited.

I hope you and the other literal people don't have children.
"Son, that's not real. There are x miles from here to the north pole, and reindeer don't fly... and he'd have to travel at x speed while crossing a locomotive at 2pm at this gps coordinate, and then find a worm hole if he would be here by March on a sleigh..."

How many people even know how many people are in the world, much less kids?

 

[j_maddison]

Haha, brilliant. Hopefully they'll release a UK variant.

If only it worked properly with British accents! In it's current incarnation, it's next to useless

Great add though

 

[MacAddict1978]

That'd be a text message, not an email.

Interesting catch... though, we know Siri is getting a nice update soon with additional functions... maybe it really is an email... "Siri, let me know if Mrs Claus sends me any email today."

Siri is going to really just get better and better

 

[notabadname]

Excellent

Very creative and enjoyable holiday commercial. Nice way to highlight the many Siri features while entertaining the audience.

 

[Rot'nApple]

There's going to be a lot of dissapointed kids if Siri 'cannot connect to the network' that night!

Somebody must be on Santa's naughty list!

Merry Christmas...
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[DeepIn2U]

Why does Santa have an American accent if he is from Finland?

^ Santa is created by the Germans actually; the whole Santa Clause concept is from some german novelist I think.

Awesome ad! WAY better than the smartass Samsung ads..

Speaking of which, do they really think they'll switch iPhone users to Samsung by insulting and attacking them???

^ Apple at one time thought the same way with Business users; remember the Lemmings commercial?

 

[yomibro]

Great commercial for the holidays

 

[Colpeas]

3.7 billion appointments... Huh, that's gonna be a tough day, Santa

 

[Cougarcat]

Already said it, but it has to be said again. GO AWAY GRINCH.
It's christmas... none of it is real... it's fun and make believe... The ad does a great job of selling features to an adult on a grown up product.... but they did the whole santa thing to get kids excited.

Woah there. Did I say I didn't like the ad? No. I love it, I think it's great. I was just responding to some people who thought that the 3.7 billion number was inaccurate, and it turns out that it is. But so what? It's a fun ad.