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What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like
Barence writes "To demonstrate just how misleading the latest (and now banned) iPhone television ad really is, PC Pro has recreated it using an iPhone 3G and a Wi-Fi connection — with laughable results. Apple was forced to pull the advert today after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) decided it exaggerated the speed of mobile browsing. 'In the 30-second clip the iPhone is shown loading a webpage, finding its current location in Google Maps, opening a PDF from an email and finally taking a phone call. The ASA concluded that the iPhone cannot do what was shown in the mere 29 seconds afforded in the advert, ruling that it was misleading.' Try it for yourself and you'll undoubtedly agree."
SOLD, bitches!
Well done ASA. Now go after adverts that gave me impression I could get hold of a chick in 30 seconds if I use their products!!!!
hilarious
Are you as awesome as your resume paints you to be?
I'm even awesomer! I left off all the parts about how I can play drums, my massive Spawn toy collection, and my mad pepper-growing skillz.
Haida Manga
I don't really think I can drive 60mph on a sheet of ice like I see in BMW commercials all the time
You can, its just the ending that would differ somewhat from the commercial. More crunching sounds for one thing...
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
That would make me a Porn star in Japan, you insensitive clod!
'Well, actually, RedBull helps temporarily restore wakefulness when experiencing fatigue or drowsiness.'
And he used wifi instead of Apple's lightning fast 3G network!
You're HIRED!
Quite right.
It was 4.86 times faster, cooler and better. In the PC Pro video it looked like celebrities in one of those "with&without makeup" slideshows.
De-glamored and like just another mobile phone. Which nobody really needs.
Not at all like something hand-sculpted from pieces of the true cross and philosopher's stone by (female) virgins gently rubbing their pelvises over the aforementioned imaginary artifacts.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
On the other hand, it's pretty easy to guess that you couldn't fix a light in another building from your phone. And that a Citroen C4 doesn't transform into a dancing robot
Noooooooooo!
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
That's a stupid idea.
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The human race is doomed.
KFC?
Son, if this is how you think a good cell phone is created... well, lets just say you appear to have a few serious issues that would be best dealt with in long term counseling.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
A whole new meaning to "We're big in Japan"
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
Don't start replies with Uh.
Correct as you are, I can't help but giggle at the irony :P
So I can rotate those dollars 90 degrees and they are real dollars?
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
NO! YOU're HIRED!
Of Code And Men
You forget that those burgers are paid professional models (I mean, take a look at their buns!) Do they have to be taken up close? And those bottled drinks...do they always have to glisten with small drops of sweat?
I heard some of them were real bitchy divas too...
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
and I'd thought transformers was a documentary!
Everyone around me is getting iPhones. How can you guys that buy the smartphones/iPhones and afford the usual 30+ monthly for the data plans?
I mean, no one has told me this but if you are in fact getting laid because you have an iPhone, I will certainly get the iPhone and data plan. Can anyone confirm this?
Until then I'll stick with ebaying my phones.
There advertising is deceptive. As mentioned above, yes you do go to Wendy's and get a shitty looking burger compared to the picture, but it's still food and your not buying it for looks.
If they said my Junior Bacon cheeseburger could download 5 pdfs and browse google maps while uploading pictures all at the same time and it didn't. I'd be a little pissed.
iPhone are neat but I hate the way there the new Moto Razor.
It is the norm where we live because we don't have that great bastion of truth and justice, the Advertising Standards Authority, looking out for us.
The free market: free to lie, cajole and generally misrepresent but hey its freedom so it must be good. Any sort of regulation would be bad and most certainly unAmerican. The ASA smacks of socialism to me.
Support Apple's right to say whatever they want!
ok I need more coffee - this post didn't come out the way I intended....
I can do all those things on my iPhone 3G and at the same time drive my car at 100 mph over twisty mountain roads while an exhausted super model runs her hand over my ultra smooth face (which I shaved in one stroke with my 9 bladed razor) and tells me how great I shag since I started taking Erectzor.
Anyone who can't is a pansy.
Life needs more saving throws.
I have an iphone and a supermodels hand on my cock right now. There are no mountains near me though, I am so not cool.
Maybe they went to McDonald's, instead.
I doubt it. We did the same thing, hoping that they would go to Wendy's...
Well duh, of course cell phones are not made this way, which is why the iPhone is so superior.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.