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iPhone advert banned for exaggerating speed
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So what if the phone is a bit slower, the point of the ad was that the connection was faster than the old iPhone, your talking like the ad said it did MMS or something.
Is AT&T always that slow?
As far as I'm concerned that YouTube video is more misleading because it suggests that all networks are as slow as AT&T. Moreover, it seems to suggest that devices out there can do everything the iPhone does instantly. The iPhone has been proven to be faster than Blackberry, its main competitor. I don't really know how more clearly the commercial could have been made. The point was to show off the features of the phone in the time frame of a commercial... They stated network speeds may vary, and honestly if that's not enough for some people who bought an iPhone they shouldn't even have one because they probably don't have the capacity to actually use one. And finally, the point was that they were comparing the iPhone 3G to the old iPhone (3G vs. Edge). 3G IS twice as fast as Edge, maybe almost 4 times as fast in the real world. That's what the commercial is saying...
Forget about the network. Does your iphone open apps as fast as the one in that ad? Can you jump from app to app as the commercial displayed? I know i cant.
Because there are people in the nanny state, aka, Great Britain, whose job it is to get worked up over things like this. They must protect the population!
I wish all commercials were banned. Life would be just that much better. Maybe instead of banning them, they could just relegate them to some channel called the "commercial" channel that people would pay to watch. Like anyone would pay for that channel. Ha! 
I wish all commercials were banned. Life would be just that much better. Maybe instead of banning them, they could just relegate them to some channel called the "commercial" channel that people would pay to watch. Like anyone would pay for that channel. Ha!
If there were no commercials, there would be no tv shows.
Maybe commercials would be more tolerable if there was more gratuitous nudity in them - and I mean gratuitious, not that PBS National Geogrpahic nudity...ewwwww!
Do you own a yacht?
Im working my way up.
But yea, if commercials here in the US were more like the rest of the world then we'd be alot more interested. But noooo, sexuality is evil!!!
I wish all commercials were banned. Life would be just that much better. Maybe instead of banning them, they could just relegate them to some channel called the "commercial" channel that people would pay to watch. Like anyone would pay for that channel. Ha!
I'm sure a lot of people would. That just speaks to the fact that people love to be consumers. They love to be told to buy this or that, thinking that it will make them happy. It's amazing really. Besides, a lot of commercials are really funny, smart, or informative, and sadly they have a huge effect on society. And I guess a lot of commercials also trick people... like the iPhone commercials apparently.
No it wasent, it was advertising the 3G speed of the iPhone, not how fast apps close.
Obviously, with data connections, especially mobile networks, the speed will vary, and it said so in the ad.
I wouldn't single out the UK. The US is pretty bad too "OMG, coffee is hot?! We need to tell people of this new and entirely surprising fact!"
Not specifically. theres no ads on BBC because of public financing, its quite nice.
You like a percentage of your hard-earned cash being taken away to run a bunch TV channels?
It is one of only taxes where you can see the direct results. I really enjoy a lot of the programmes that go out on the BBC TV and radio networks and they are even better without constant advertisements butting in.
So no, I don't mind paying my TV licence, as long as the quality of programming is maintained.
Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross.
Although, I must admit I do like Top Gear a lot!
I hope you are not basing the quality of the entire BBC network on one incident that was totally blown out of all proportions by the gutter press? Of course all of the output from the BBC isn't brilliant, but over my lifetime at least it has been consistently of a higher standard than the output from the UK's commercial channels.
Perhaps you prefer the Sky alternative where you pay a high monthly subscription and still get the programmes chopped up to accommodate the advertisements?
No it wasn't.
It was advertising the iPhone 3G. Its speed, look, colour, size, shinyness, and the speed at which the apps open. That particular advert simply focussed on the speed of the iPhone, but it still (falsly) demonstrated, and therefore advertised, how fast apps open.
True. I didnt even want to argue about this, I dont feel strongly about it at all, I'm just bored
Why the hell do Sky do that anyway? Its weird.
It was talking about how the internet, e-mail etc. was twice as fast because it is through 3G!
and it was greatly exaggerated but NOT obvious to the consumer it was exaggerated
Its common sense - things are almost never exactly like the ads!
Also, dont forget that many places selling the iPhone (including ALL the Apple Stores) have demo phones out for potential customers to play with before making their purchase.