Apple Superbowl Ad?

[splashman]

Sarcasm? Which part?

Originally posted by howtoplaydead
This is a speculation site, what are you nay-sayers who insult rumors doing here. look at the address bar, understand where you are. this site is a huge grape vine, just a place for gossip, and we enjoy it.

Who's "we"?

I have no problem with rumors, no matter how crazy. You and many, many others cross over from "crazy" to "pathetic" when you actually believe Apple should be basing their marketing strategy on your latest pipe dreams.

Need some help understanding?

GOOD: "I think Apple should release a 20th-Anniversary G5 PowerBook, 7.2 Ghz, 3mm thick and 11.6oz, dual Superdrives and 20-terabyte RAID, 4-month battery life and free FCP, all for $799."

BAD: "Apple is an idiot for not giving me me all that."

Yeeeesh.

 

[Snowy_River]

Originally posted by Krizoitz
He said it was going to be a great YEAR, we aren't even 1/12th of the way through it and people are allready saying that nothing is going to happen. Get a grip.

Um, last time I checked, as of today we are about 32 days into the year, which is 8.77%. Compared to 1/12th, which is 8.33%. So, in fact, we are a bit more than 1/12th of the way through the year...

That said, I think that I agree with you. This is the 20th anniversary year. Hopefully, this is more than just advertizing fluff, like "year of the laptop"...

 

[Snowy_River]

Re: Sarcasm? Which part?

Originally posted by splashman
Who's "we"?

I have no problem with rumors, no matter how crazy. You and many, many others cross over from "crazy" to "pathetic" when you actually believe Apple should be basing their marketing strategy on your latest pipe dreams.

Need some help understanding?

GOOD: "I think Apple should release a 20th-Anniversary G5 PowerBook, 7.2 Ghz, 3mm thick and 11.6oz, dual Superdrives and 20-terabyte RAID, 4-month battery life and free FCP, all for $799."

BAD: "Apple is an idiot for not giving me me all that."

Yeeeesh.

I think you missed the point of his post. He was saying that this is a rumor site, and people who are expecting everything to be as it is laid out in the rumors are in the wrong place. In other words, I think you actually agreed with him...

 

[reedm007]

Originally posted by Snowy_River
Um, last time I checked, as of today we are about 32 days into the year, which is 8.77%. Compared to 1/12th, which is 8.33%. So, in fact, we are a bit more than 1/12th of the way through the year...

Okay buddy, 2 things:

1. this person was doing what many call "a rough estimate", based on the fact that we finished 1 month and there are 12 months in a year, so 1/12th of the way. No it's not exactly 1/12th, but for heaven's sake man...

2. If you're being caught up in technicalities of exact decimals like that, you might want to remember that this year is a leap year, so we have 366 days... 32/366 = 8.74% not 8.77%.

But believe me, i don't care I just hope you were trying to be funny or something...

 

[performand]

there was another apple superbowl ad!

Hi!

Didn't anybody else notice: There was another ad from Apple during the Superbowl. In fact, it was a sublimal message hidden in all the other ads! When you re-assemble the hidden words and letters, you get a personalized message from Steve Jobs saying:

"Because 2004 isn't 1984
it is not like 2004.

Expect something really big to happen
TOMORROW!

Or the day after tomorrow.


Or the day after that day.


Or any other day this year.


Or maybe even in 2005.

Whatever.


Something REALLY BIG is coming your way.
You'll be excited!


Or not.


And please spend all your money on iPods and iTMS, so that I can afford to make a new computer.

Thank you


Yours, Steve.


P.S.: It will be really amazing, believe me."




There's no doubt about it: This message is clearly there! I've watched all the ads over and over again.

 

[skidoo]

Superbowl halftime

Justin Timberlake lopped of the wrong cuff. He was meant to pull the left one, revealing the apple logo on Janets left breast. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

[SiliconAddict]

Re: What a waste of time!

Originally posted by skidoo
Apple disapoints again!
Apple is a lazy, selfish and mean company. This is the reflection fromthe Lazy, selfish and mean CEO. Good one Jobsy, GOOD ONE!
I'm off to buy an XP machine.
PFFFFFFF.

You, my friend, need to stabilize your mental attitude. For god sake it its not the end of the world if they didn't do any spectacular for the superbowl. You are going to go out and buy an XP system because of a rumor that never happened. Wow. And I thought I was a fair weather fan.

 

[SiliconAddict]

Originally posted by splashman
Roger that.

Oh come on. Don't tell me the potential tie in to the Panthers didn't occur to some of you guys!! I just had the ball to say it out loud.

 

[howtoplaydead]

Originally posted by aswitcher
Nicely said...
so we wait and hope it won't be too much longer...

that wasn't sarcasm, was it?

I say this because what else can we do other than go and rally over at cupertino, i think rallying in cupertino is a much more 'pathetic' method of waiting, in fact, I think it's a little sick if you do that.

 

[howtoplaydead]

Re: Sarcasm? Which part?

Originally posted by splashman
Who's "we"?

I have no problem with rumors, no matter how crazy. You and many, many others cross over from "crazy" to "pathetic" when you actually believe Apple should be basing their marketing strategy on your latest pipe dreams.

Need some help understanding?

GOOD: "I think Apple should release a 20th-Anniversary G5 PowerBook, 7.2 Ghz, 3mm thick and 11.6oz, dual Superdrives and 20-terabyte RAID, 4-month battery life and free FCP, all for $799."

BAD: "Apple is an idiot for not giving me me all that."

Yeeeesh.

I'm was as content as the next guy when Apple release the original TiBook or the G5.

I'm just expecting something more now. I think this was supposed to be one of those places where Apple was supposed to release something. The cube was released with perfect timing, even woz was there and a big deal was made ove it. Yesterday was supposed to be one of those moments.

 

[JJTiger1]

Re: SuperBowl 2004

Originally posted by JJTiger1
Gentlemen, Start your televisions !!!

Official Pregame in just a few minutes.

=-=
JJ

Ok. It's Over.

Klidesdale replaced by a donkey: stay tuned for another flavor of beer.

No news from Apple.

Software Update: nada.
=-=
JJ

 

[kangaroo]

my 2 cents

-in general--worst sb ads i've ever seen.

as for the itunes/pepsi ad - h o r r i b l e.

 

[grafikat]

Re: Re: SuperBowl 2004

Originally posted by JJTiger1
Ok. It's Over.

Clydesdale replaced by a donkey
JJ

Just to show you, even Bud thinks bud drinkers are Jack***

Definately a bad batch of commercials...even the Pepsi ad was lacking... Only Apple update is a Security patch this am

 

[Mac Dummy]

How many times during the Superbowl did you see it?

I only saw the ad played only once during the game (it was in a commerical break during the second quarter). However, I didn't watch the pre-game coverage and CBS might have run the ad more then, I don't know.

 

[Snowy_River]

Originally posted by reedm007
Okay buddy, 2 things:

1. this person was doing what many call "a rough estimate", based on the fact that we finished 1 month and there are 12 months in a year, so 1/12th of the way. No it's not exactly 1/12th, but for heaven's sake man...

2. If you're being caught up in technicalities of exact decimals like that, you might want to remember that this year is a leap year, so we have 366 days... 32/366 = 8.74% not 8.77%.

But believe me, i don't care I just hope you were trying to be funny or something...

Well, yes, I was trying to be funny. If I really wanted to take it too far, I could point out that a year is actually 365.25 days long (we just add a year every leap year to make up for loosing a quarter of a day the other three years). So, therefore, also taking into account the fact that it was about 31.75 days into the year when I originally posted, so

31.75/365.25=8.69%

But, seriously, the point that I was trying to make was that his rough estimate was wrong. He stated 'we aren't even 1/12th of the way through' the year. The basic rough estimate would be that we are 1/12th of the way through the year, as the first month had already ended.

So, that was my point, and I decided to have some fun with it at the same time, because it was a silly point...

 

[wdlove]

The Pepsi/Apple commercial was OK, was hoping for a greater notice for Apple. I wasn't really expecting Steve to run a commercial, but still diappointed.

I guess that Apple only had one awesome commerclal under theri belt. The time has past and so they have missed out on a fantastic opportunity. With millions watching, they could have really demonstrated what today's Apple is about.

 

[invaLPsion]

Bring on the First Quarter Losses for Apple. This will be a disaster........

 

[DeepIn2U]

Stats

I wonder of all of you Na sayers about the ad will still buy Pepsi bottles just to get a free download?? Even if your not drinking it yourself (ie. Coca Cola fans; I hate the moniker Coke makes me sick thinkin' of the drug).

Also I'm very surprised that this kind of promotion wasn't saved until the late Spring/Summertime as perception (maybe my own) would estimate pop drinkers drink more pop in the Summer than in the Winter. Does anyone know what the stats are for consumption of pop consumed per quarter or per season for particular softdrinks?? After hearing comments of the ad on CNNBC nothing of this nature was even mentioned, hmm???

Wish I did live in the USA at this present time JUST for those downloads.

Personally, the ad seemed to be a wannabe 1984 ad in the scrolling text part, and it looked pathetic. However I do understand that it was geared to a particular target market though.

PS I do hope that the next software update feature mentioned is the ability to place voice calls over IP to cellular phones. In particular I think this could work in an ad for Apple's iChatAV , SonyEricsson phones (like they did in the past along with this company), and Cingular Wireless. Then the Video part can be part of an ad later in mid 2005 when numbers of 3G subscribers in the US (EDGE) for carriers like Verizon Wireless as they already invested Millions $$ for their continued current upgrade on that CDMA2000 EV-DO upgrade.

 

[verb]

iPad

I know nothing about this, but the huge delay in updates makes me think that Apple is preparing something big and new. The only "brand new" product that was in the rumor mill was that tablet PC device that would run inkwell. Perhaps that device is going to be the next big thing for Apple.

Would anyone buy it?
(let's assume G4 1Ghz, 12" LCD, Airport extreme, firewire 800, USB2.0, pen-input)

 

[Snowy_River]

Re: Stats

Originally posted by Prom1
I wonder of all of you Na sayers about the ad will still buy Pepsi bottles just to get a free download?? Even if your not drinking it yourself (ie. Coca Cola fans; I hate the moniker Coke makes me sick thinkin' of the drug).

Also I'm very surprised that this kind of promotion wasn't saved until the late Spring/Summertime as perception (maybe my own) would estimate pop drinkers drink more pop in the Summer than in the Winter. Does anyone know what the stats are for consumption of pop consumed per quarter or per season for particular softdrinks?? After hearing comments of the ad on CNNBC nothing of this nature was even mentioned, hmm???

Well, if you think about it, this promotion is, for Pepsi, about getting more people to drink their product. What time of year do people drink less Pepsi, and therefore need a bit of encouragement?

 

[pdrayton]

Re: Stats

Originally posted by Prom1
Does anyone know what the stats are for consumption of pop consumed per quarter or per season for particular softdrinks??

Surprisingly, the age group targeted by the promotion (same age as those you saw in the ad) have a steady consumption of soft drinks throughout the year. Cold weather doesn't diminish the quantities drunk.

In a related topic, the highest per-capita consumption of ice cream is in wintry and bitter-cold Boston. Go figure!

 

[iTisch]

Originally posted by Snowy_River
No kidding... I'm finding it amazing how volatile this thread seems to be. Could it be continued cross-atlantic negativity, do you suppose?

Peace.

Well, those times should be over, don't you think ? Well, i HOPE they are over - leave the politics to the politicians (in that case ...)

Cheers & hope you all enjoyed the SB (AD or noAD)

 

[reedm007]

Originally posted by invaLPsion
Bring on the First Quarter Losses for Apple. This will be a disaster........

I suppose a $2.5 million superbowl ad would have improved this?

 

[reedm007]

Re: Re: Sarcasm? Which part?

Originally posted by howtoplaydead
I think this was supposed to be one of those places where Apple was supposed to release something. The cube was released with perfect timing, even woz was there and a big deal was made ove it. Yesterday was supposed to be one of those moments.

But whatever gave you the idea besides a german rumorsy site that there might be something? Apple certainly gave no indication. They haven't had a superbowl ad in years since HAL. They've been promoting the heck out of iTunes/Pepsi deal all over their pages and the ad that will run for that... I'd say Apple strongly hinted there *wouldn't* be anything in this superbowl.

So I'm not sure why you think yesterday was supposed to be one of those moments? Normally Apple announces brand new products in 1 of two ways:

1. Trade Show
2. Special Press Invitations to a special "event"

Yesterday was neither of those. I've never seen Apple announce *any* product in an ad campaign, outside of the original Macintosh in 1984, which just revolutionized the world. Unless Apple was going to come out with some mind-blowing revolutionary new product (which would be impressive, as nobody's heard an inkling about this, and Mac OS X work seems to be continuing in a fabulous evolutionary fashion), a Superbowl ad doesn't seem to make too much sense to me. It costs a LOT of money, and, frankly, I wasn't impressed at all by yesterday's ads, and I feel that virtually every company wasted millions of dollars on those ads. It seems the only worthwhile thing to spend money on for a SuperBowl ad is to launch a brand new amazing thing, which nobody succeeded in doing very well.

So, my point here is: There was no real reason to expect anything from Apple. And don't expect any crazy new products out of the blue on a random Tuesday -- Apple will set up some sort of event for that type of launch. All we get on Tuesday's is incremental updates to existing products, often times all we really want anyway.

 

[Krizoitz]

Re: there was another apple superbowl ad!

Originally posted by performand
Or maybe even in 2005.

And please spend all your money on iPods and iTMS, so that I can afford to make a new computer.

To me this post demonstrates two things

1) People are suddenly assuming that because Apple doesn't release their products now NOW NOW (tauntrum anyone) that they never will

2) Suddenly people think that Apple only works on the iPod and forget that its a major way for Apple to increase brand awareness and become more and more profitable which is good for the company as a whole.

Seriously, anyone who thinks Apple is just going to sit around and not try and come out with great new computers has been asleep since Jobs came back. This isn't Sculley/Amelios bloated visionless Apple. This is Steve's we have great inovative stuff and we are going to keep doing it.