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New Apple Watch Ads Showcase Messaging, Fitness, Maps and Apple Pay
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I like train and cycle and ride. Simple and to the point. The other ones were cringeworthy. The Apple Pay one was not clear. Nor the singing one. The date one was a total fail.
Fun fact: In the Date commercial, Lake bell is dancing with her husband, Scott Campbell. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/25/lake-bell-baby_n_6047166.html
That date commercial, wow. This is a whole new level of pathetic.
I do, which is why I didn't mention having to enter a PIN.
Had to sign using Discover and Apple Pay just the other day on a $6 purchase. I also ran into a store once where I had to give the clerk my DAN for a >$50 purchase (as well as sign).
I was watching Friends on Comedy Central (here in the UK) on Sunday and almost every ad break had the iPhone 6S ad. I don't think I've ever seen an Apple Watch ad on TV, despite Apple having made tons of them.
Lake Bell is a gorgeous actress who has done some TV and movie work with modest success. And Scott Campbell is ... well... he's her husband.
Instead of focusing on the product, they seem more afraid of other commercials, so they have to be super unique/weird to distinguish themselves.
This is called lack of confidence in a product. The product should speak for itself.
As I mentioned, three of the ads were fine: the exercise one, the siri map one and the biking one. Pretty simple and straightforward. The others were confusing/messy/awkward/embarrassing.
And some of us have been using Apple products since 1978, yet we are not always going to be positive on the company.
You're doing it wrong. Those things are not efficient at all. For the iPhone, you pay a lot of money, get a lot of functionality.
Then you get the watch (see, you need the iPhone first). You pay a lot of money, for almost zero added functionality. You can bring your iPhone by itself and you can bring a paper map by itself, but you can't even bring your Apple Watch by itself. It just screams redundancy.
Spot on. I have a Dell Venue Pro 8 tablet and it's a nightmare for myself and other users in regard to running Windows 8. No, it's a total pain to get Win10 for it. It's not automatic and Windows is still a complete h-e-l-l. I would never recommend Windows to anyone and I tried to give them a chance (yes, have always used Windows at work and had a Win Vista and Win 7 laptop.)
I've rarely had any real issues with OS X. The only one that stands out is when you could not eject disk images and that was a bug and many, many years ago. OS X is pretty rock solid (on the whole).
I love ChromeOS and have a Chromebook, but we know there are some limitations to it (depends on a person's needs and it's great a a second laptop).
Windows is a travesty. Sorry, I tried to use their PCs and it's just a mess at one point or another. It's not all bad, but for the everyday user...god forbid you get a problem. As for massive fail with OS X - it has never happened to me or anyone I know and the Apple store is available to help.
I agree with the premise, and the promise, of the Apple Watch. I was just banking on my own anecdotal evidence, to say that the ripples made by the Watch seemed to be quietening down, at least outside the tech echo chambers of SF, NY, LA etc.
Good point. Though I would only do that in certain situations (i.e. the more alone the better) but yeah, that does give you some hands free features. Thanks for the reminder
Seriously. People seem asleep when it comes to the "reality" of reliability and service.
Doesn't anyone here own MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR THE MAC? 2011? It literally needs a security update literally every other week.. Has anyone here EVER tried to CALL ADOBE for support? Plan on a one to two hour wait if lucky. And good luck with the "out-sourced" support they offer
(( . Ever made a purchase with Dell? Used their financing?Some of you Apple bashers either 1) are full of it or 2) Never get out much 3) just find the smallest details to bash Apple.
These ads -- yea that's the topic -- are fine. It's dumbfounding how so many here believe they are entitled to expect Apple to make all its ads appeal to everyone in its ONE BILLION CUSTOMER BASE -- let alone the want-to-be tech heads that frequent these forums.
These ads will do their jobs for the market and people they are targeting. Period. For the naysayers -- apparently your not the target and that means the ads are doing their jobs. Face it you wouldn't buy the watch anyway -- even if Apple targets you with the most brilliant ad. Do any of you *THINK" at this point -- after 6 months of on-sale data they have no idea whose buying and liking the Apple Watch??
Yea right.
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Quieting down? Do you really really think that Apple expanding its availability to retailers like Best Buy and Target is because it's a failure? If so you really think Apple will be able to contain the truth of failure now that it's out into the wild? Highly doubtful.
But.. I do think the reality is is that the watch is a totally different retail item. It's no phone. It has no subsidies yet. And I'm certain that their availability at Target and Best Buy will amount to a happy holiday season for Apple Watch. Why? The most common gripe out and about is PRICE. These stores take STORE CREDIT cards - plus reward programs - especially Best Buy -- who said yesterday the Watch was in fact selling well there.
Is this device a blockbuster. Hell no. Should it be? No. It's not a mass appeal item at all. Why ? It's an early adopter item first of all. Second -- the mass market is not ready for a computer on its wrist... But they will be.
LOL!
Lets get this straight, late 20/early 30 single mom probably with a failed marriage is on mission to engage into some random intercourse. She is carelessly dancing with a potential partner and then she gets "OH.. yeah my baby is OK" interruption moment and then she just goes on. Its clear as a day that her baby was the last thing on her mind. Responsible mom would first call up to make sure her kid is ok and then go on and relax knowing her kid is ok.
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Geez, the negativity in this discuss thread is overwhelming! Come on people, start seeing the lighter side of life, will ya?
A couple of my co-workers have them, a guy at the grocery store I go to wears one and told me he loves it and I have occasionally spotted them on random wrists (male and female). I think the Apple Watch will be like the Apple TV, starts off small with a handful of people getting them, then after a few years, starts really gaining momentum. Only this time, the stereotypical "tech geeks" and "Apple Fanboys" are not the only ones getting them. This time, people who don't fit those stereotypes are also getting them.
Hey, I'm not being negative. I said the guy in the dance commercial is hot didn't I?
Neither do I, but I think the point is that the people in this forum are reading WAAAAAY too much into a 16 second ad spot.