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Late Night TV Pokes Fun at iPhone 5 Mania

This has nothing to do with the iPhone or Apple fans or the intelligence of the people interviewed. Give them any product and tell them it's the new version and ask what they think while pointing a camera at them. Then do the same experiment without a camera and see what they say.

As with Jay walking skits, they only show you the "funny" parts and not someone who is not intimidated by a camera and a filming crew to say their honest opinion.

This is a skit on a comedy show. It shouldn't be representative of anything except that.
 
it's like all the stupid people back in the day who called every mp3 player an iPod (which used to get me mad but now I don't care)
 
I am sure the reaction will be the same if you give them a S3.

Now, to be fair, I am sure some people will have noticed that this wasn't an iPhone 5. But that's not what they wanted to show on TV.
 
Comedians making fun of how good the new iPhone is are making free advertising actually. And showing how quickly ist was sold out makes more poeople realise there is a new iPhone out. Free marketing. Great. :D
 
lighthouse_man said:
This has nothing to do with the iPhone or Apple fans or the intelligence of the people interviewed. Give them any product and tell them it's the new version and ask what they think while pointing a camera at them. Then do the same experiment without a camera and see what they say.

As with Jay walking skits, they only show you the "funny" parts and not someone who is not intimidated by a camera and a filming crew to say their honest opinion.

This is a skit on a comedy show. It shouldn't be representative of anything except that.
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But I suppose that's my problem with it. All too often these days shows like Leno, Kimmel, and to a lesser extent Conan have made these skits that blur the line between fact and parody.

If you think back to the heyday of SNL, they did parody and satire. But their satire was done with caricature characters, and absurdly ridiculous "documentary" style films that left no doubt that, while there was a satirical edge, they understood that reality was something short of their skits.

These types of films create an illusion that everyone you talk to on the street is stupid. In this case stupid enough to believe that the phone they're being shown is different from the one in their pocket. And they do it with editing, a technique that is unfair to the real world, and diminishes the comic value of the skit, in my opinion. The fact of the matter is likely that 90% of the people they approached either had no interest in participating, knew that the phone was the same one they were carrying, or at the very least said it looked the same.

What they broadcast was the edited version, and to me it's the equivalent of someone using iPhoto to completely alter a photo of a sunset, then representing that it really looked like that when they took the picture.

It was mildly amusing, but not hilarious, because the editing takes away any connection to reality, while implying that it is real.

At least the old Candid Camera show let us see one or two people who didn't fall for the joke. That means that the producers of that show felt secure enough at least to poke fun at themselves just as much as the people they were trying to pull the pranks on.

This new flavor of mocumentary comedy doesn't do that. Instead it seems to imply something is true, and thus worthy of satire and ridicule, while using the power of the edit to quash any chance of the viewer knowing otherwise.
 
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This is really no different than that Samsung ad that found the dumbest iPhone users on the planet and put them head-to-head with a trained Android user, and made them compete to do inane tasks in front of a camera. Of course, the iPhone user didn't know how to do what they'd spent the whole morning teaching the Android user to do.

As I pointed out then, the tasks could be done with an iPhone, in many cases I would argue better, though the tasks were all pretty stupid as it was. They just didn't put the smart iPhone users in their ad.

Most users of every product are dumb, because most people are dumb. Most people become dumber when you stick a camera in their face and have a celebrity interview them. You can do this sort of thing with every product, and edit to get the same results.

Calling people dumb is usually not a good way of getting them to use your product.
 
blackhand1001 said:
Why should I care, its not my money. The simple fact is they could put out a phone thats worse the last one and people would still line up on launch day. Its a cult.
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Your simply envious. It's a natural reaction. You are not who you want to be.
Someday you will find yourself. The path is simple once you understand. :apple:
 
WoW

This thread is amazing. Nothing but jealous rage, insecurity, self doubt, ignorance, and insecurity.

There will be well over 60 million 5's sold by Dec 31st. There are roughly 875 posts in here. Let's say 70% are negative. That is roughly 360 members if we take each post as an individual. Most being Sept 2012 registrations. It's a joke.

Oct will see the iPad mini, and the new iMacs. If you hate Apple fine. But please know, there is nothing your going to do to stop it.

All this venomous drainage in here is simply Self Abusive.

"The Assimilation Continues". :apple:
 
Why do all of you people think this particular comedy is about the iPhone? Did you even pay attention to it?

This is about people, using the iPhone as a foil.
 
errrr....folks, you all need to lighten up. Step away from the glow of your macbooks, put away your iphones and turn off your apple tvs and come up from the basement and socialize with real people.

the iphone 5 is basically an iphone 4s with a bigger screen and faster processor. It's like saying sony coming out with a faster laptop with a bigger screen as being the innovation of the year. Oh, don't forget the faster network card.

Yeah, I'll get the iphone 5. But because my iPhone 4 is getting a little slow since each iOS update makes the phones a bit slower (probably done on purpose to make you buy new phones). And no, I won't cream my pants once I get the iPhone 5 like most of you here.

Hmm, come to think of it, nevermind, stay in your basements. =)
 
aurichie said:
Honestly I think most ordinary consumers wouldn't know the difference. Many don't even know the model number they have in their hands. It's just iPhone to them.
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I think that maybe these are the kind of people who Apple was worried would go into a carrier store, see a Samsung android phone, and ask to buy it because they can't tell the difference.

I think (not a lawyer), that this is what the trade dress suit was about.
 
MkNuII said:
It's not just Apple fanboys. It's Apple, Android, Samsung, Toshiba, Twix, Manchester United, Boca Juniors, it's <insert name of brand here> fanboys.

Most people think they always know more than they actually know. Although my text could by a contradiction since I'm saying I know that people think they know but they don't, but since I'm saying MOST people I'm generalizing and creating an exception for a large number of people that when they talk, they know, and when they don't know, they stay silent. :p Confused? :confused:

It's any fanboys, not just Apple. There's always a "love this brand group" and always a anti-brand group :p It's the natural path of things :)

It's thanks to people like these (on the video), that I understand why Apple thinks people get confused and don't distinguish between Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy.

They'll probably use a similar video to prove their point.
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I almost got the ***** kicked out of me by a Manchester United fan for wearing a David Villa shirt in London.
 
0dev said:
Not really true, HTC is quite a cool brand these days.
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LOL. No.

Brand "coolness":

Apple - 10
Samsung - 3
Motorola - 2
Nokia - 1 (at least some type of counter culture cool)
HTC - 0

Sorry, but that's the on-the-streets reality of it. With that said, I'm selling my iPhone 4S and buying an unlocked/unbranded Galaxy Nexus. They're down to $350 now (obviously because the new model is probably coming out sooner than later but still). Now, the Galaxy Nexus is a decidedly UNCOOL phone. But with a cute case and stuff, it's passable. And I'm ready to try something different.

But cool? LOL. No. And I'd still say the Galaxy Nexus (probably the most UNCOOL Samsung phone) has a hair of coolness that only the HTC One X might have.
 
Yes, yes, very droll

Ha ha. They found 5 people to make a funny television skit. And I must admit, it is funny. But lest anyone try to make fanboi generalizations...

How many dozens of folks did they try this with? How many of those said, "Hey, wait a minute. This is just a 4S, stupid! It even says so here on the back!" How many of the rest said, "iPhone 5, huh? Looks the same as the 4S to me."
 
pandamonia said:
Hahahahahahahahhahah

typical iphone customers.

Apple knows this.

Hahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahhaahhahahahah
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No, just the worst of the worst chosen by the producers of the Jimmy Kimmel show. iPhone customers know this. You do not. It's okay, we all need people to work in fast food. :rolleyes:

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rdlink said:
But I suppose that's my problem with it. All too often these days shows like Leno, Kimmel, and to a lesser extent Conan have made these skits that blur the line between fact and parody...

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Very well said.

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ConCat said:
Just a tip: When you separate the numbers with a space, it makes them look like separate numbers, separated by a comma. Consider: $117,445,324,221. I had to reread that once.
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I moved on and didn't get what the heck he was trying to say until you added the commas in. @_@
 
verniesgarden said:
I'd like to know how many people they filtered out of the video for going "umm no this is the same iPhone jackass" notice they only show the same 4-5 people over and over.
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To be fair, that's a major US city (NY, NY, right?). Just getting people to stop and talk to you on the sidewalk is an achievement. (Even if you've got a camera and mic.)

But even then, yeah, they cut all but the ones that work together to create the funniest 'bit' for the show. I mean, "video on the back"?! Really?
 
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Apple should use this in their next round of defense against Samsung's copying.

"See, it hurts us because people are morons and they can't tell the difference between the two!"
 
markie said:
LOL. No.

Brand "coolness":

Apple - 10
Samsung - 3
Motorola - 2
Nokia - 1 (at least some type of counter culture cool)
HTC - 0

Sorry, but that's the on-the-streets reality of it. With that said, I'm selling my iPhone 4S and buying an unlocked/unbranded Galaxy Nexus. They're down to $350 now (obviously because the new model is probably coming out sooner than later but still). Now, the Galaxy Nexus is a decidedly UNCOOL phone. But with a cute case and stuff, it's passable. And I'm ready to try something different.

But cool? LOL. No. And I'd still say the Galaxy Nexus (probably the most UNCOOL Samsung phone) has a hair of coolness that only the HTC One X might have.
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Um, HTC has the most coveted Android phone with the One. Now, that is an exception to their historic rule, and we don't know if the One is a changing of their fortunes.
 
Irishman said:
Um, HTC has the most coveted Android phone with the One. Now, that is an exception to their historic rule, and we don't know if the One is a changing of their fortunes.
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The One X is a nice handset, but regardless, HTC and cool do NOT fit together. They've tried. And the One X is nice. But still, when I think HTC I think:

1. business phones
2. terrible battery life
3. hideously ugly Android skin
 
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