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Of course - in the interest of balance, a little might not go amiss
A recent Simpsons episode had a very good mickey take of Apple stores and products, clip here
There that should keep Lee happy
Of course - in the interest of balance, a little might not go amiss
Personally, I'm still laughing about Global Dance TV not running on Macs...
Barts full name is Bartholomew didn't you know.Originally Posted by pmjd
A recent Simpsons episode had a very good mickey take of Apple stores and products, clip here
There that should keep Lee happy
No, his full name is Bartholomew Jojo SimpsonBarts full name is Bartholomew didn't you know.
Why is that funny? For that matter - why is it significant?Personally, I'm still laughing about Global Dance TV not running on Macs...
(Although I suppose that if you can't even run it under Parallels or the like it must be a pretty shoddy piece of coding
Because I'm mean and small souled, I suspect...
Though there did seem to be a significant correlation between being a West Coast Swing addict and a Macintosh user that added to the irony of it not working on Macs.
I love this - a class action law suit taken out by people who believed Apple's advertising. That's funny enough, but Apple's response really makes me laugh. It's essentially: our ads didn't lie, but that no-one in their right mind would have believed their claims about their products.Plaintiff's claims, and those of the purported class, are barred by the fact that the alleged deceptive statements were such that no reasonable person in Plaintiff's position could have reasonably relied on or misunderstood Apple's statements as claims of fact
Oh ha, bloody ha!Personally, I'm still laughing about Global Dance TV not running on Macs...
And maybe on your subsequent post (I'm a luddite, I can't multi-quote) you should have added a
Smug so-and-so.
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Well - having watched the ad, the product can do everything the ad shows... it just can't do it nearly that quickly. Maybe they should ban the "I'm a PC" ads, because none of those people are actually PCs. And, of course, the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads for the same reason (and because PCs aren't nearly that funny). And all the Lynx ads, because you really don't get mobbed by hordes of gorgeous women when wearing Lynx. Well - I don't, anyway. And....
Basically, anyone who believes everything said in just about any ad is nuts. Such is advertising.
Maybe I'll start a class action lawsuit against Shake 'n Vac for a) NOT putting the freshness back into my carpets, but instead making them smell of cheap chemicals and b) creating the most irritating jingle in the history of advertising. Anyone with me?
Here she is (Jenny Logan):
Yeah and wasn't she a pre-cursor to the Desperate Housewive type ladies. I mean, the Shake-'n-Vac chick was one horny minx of a girl - they way she shook the phallus of the vacuum cleaner handle - wow.....enough to make the hairs on your nape stand to attention.
According to Wikipedia:
She also appeared "as a black leather clad police vixen in a mini series of The Two Ronnies The Worm That Turned"
(And she appeared in Roger, Roger - a comdey drama).
So, you can see a pattern emerging. She will probably do Ceroc in due course I guess.
Last edited by JiveLad; 4th-December-2008 at 05:07 PM.
The whole point of the ad in question was that the phone was quick. If the point of the add was the functionality (which other Apple ads are about), then your defense makes sense. But when the point of the ad in question was speed ('as fast as a PC...'), the fact that you can't do it anywhere near as fast is a reasonably fundamental flaw in the claim that the ad was making.
These ads have already been banned in the UK by the Advertising standards authority for precisely that reason; none of the other examples you gave were banned because the claims were not demonstrably false (Lynx, for example, makes the claim that using their products will make you more attractive to women. If you do not have women throwing themselves at you, it does not mean you've not got more attractive, just that the starting point was so low that the improvement hasn't made much difference).
The reason I dislike Apple is not due to their machines, O/S's or their products.
I used to like working on Macs awhile back (was working with G3/4's) and think that their products have helped to push technology forward, for example, the Ipod brough digital music to the masses.
What I dislike about them is the way they push their products. Everyone and their dog seems to want an Ipod or an iPhone even if they are inferior products to many that are on the market.
I also dislike the fact that the owners of them seem to feel that what they own is special and is better than anything else available.
Apple owners are the Tango dancers of the digital world.
You mean we actually are better?Apple owners are the Tango dancers of the digital world.
That's great news!!!!! Folks - you heard it first from Lee. What more evidence do you need?
Learn a few small steps and think your the only ones in the worldYou mean we actually are better?
That's great news!!!!! Folks - you heard it first from Lee. What more evidence do you need?
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