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Oops: Apple's Latest Billboard Features Phallic Design
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All the designers with the true Apple DNA left. This company is now fully ran by marketing. It shows.
Ok Apple is cooked now
Apple has a new 'Shot on iPhone' billboard design that combines iPhone photography with iPad sketches, but as one Reddit user noticed, the result is decidedly phallic.
The billboard was shared on the Miami subreddit earlier this month, and highlighted by the Miami New Times earlier today. The design features a photo of a shark along with a cartoon scuba diver that has an oversized finger because of the perspective, leading the Miami New Times to wonder "Did Apple Put a Giant Phallic Symbol on I-95?"
The billboard is above Miami's I-95 freeway, and it is around 15 feet in length, so it hasn't escaped the notice of motorists. The cartoon is part of Apple's Shot on iPhone, Drawn on iPad series that features creations from eight artists. Up close, the shark, scuba diver, and octopus combo are clear, but it's a little hard to tell what's going on from further away.
Apple's billboard has been up for over a week, plus the design has been shared on Instagram, so Apple may be planning to ignore those who see more than a simple scuba diver in the drawing.
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To those who say we all have dirty minds, not only is that phallic, but that octopussy is getting some, eah?
That's the thing. Which people?
Where's the C-level person to give final approval on what gets released, and own it when things go sideways?
It's 2025, if anything it was intentional and all parties involved were aware. Cuz who would care?
I wouldn't even have noticed. Some guys see s** everywhere, which says more about them than about Apple, honestly.
I'm a bit disappointed that MacRumors stoops to reporting such nonsense.
I'm a bit disappointed that MacRumors stoops to reporting such nonsense.
its amazing that even after you pointed this out, the posters on this forum continue to make it as if it was an apple created ad.
I really don't care what people see, but it's just an ugly ad to begin with. Those colors on a billboard... Bad.
At least the octopus on the finger isn't purple!
At this rate, and by this selection method, the palm beach billboards may display the full posterior bookmark.
This particular choice kind of seems like a weird AD for an AT&T partnership (just on the iPad part of it).
I can't imagine selling cellular iPads is a big important thing for them.
I can't imagine selling cellular iPads is a big important thing for them.
