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."

Comments

So what?

[LibertineR]

My friends tell me that an iPhone will certainly increase my penis size, with the only drawback being that I will need one of those fancy Apple carrying cases to keep it in.

SOLD, bitches!

Re:This is tipical for apple

[William Robinson]

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!!!!

Re:No, this is typical for virtually anyone sellin

[LearnToSpell]

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.

Re:Whatever...

[thermian]

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...

Re:No, this is typical for virtually anyone sellin

[denzacar]

I'm hardly defending Apple here, but I think "4x as good" is rather ridiculous.

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.

Re:Beauty treatments

[pzs]

That's a stupid idea.

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The human race is doomed.

Chick?

[TheLink]

KFC?

Re:No, this is typical for virtually anyone sellin

[ColdWetDog]

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.

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.

Re:No, this is typical for virtually anyone sellin

[beelsebob]

Uh

Don't start replies with Uh.

Correct as you are, I can't help but giggle at the irony :P

Re:1 million dollars for reading this post!

[corsec67]

*1 million imaginary dollars

So I can rotate those dollars 90 degrees and they are real dollars?

Pfffffft

[Grashnak]

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.

Re:No, this is typical for virtually anyone sellin

[db32]

Well duh, of course cell phones are not made this way, which is why the iPhone is so superior.