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Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com)
Can an iPad replace your computer? It has been the topic of debate for years, with plenty of people advising against it. Apple sure begs to differ. It has been running a commercial in which it predicts a world where a computer is extinct and a child with an iPad doesn't even know what the word "computer" means. Business Insider reports that plenty of people are finding that commercial annoying. From the report: "Does this commercial tick anybody else off?" writes one commenter on a snippet of the commercial that was posted to Facebook. "I want to smack this kid. What's a computer? You know what a computer is you disrespectful smarta--!!" Plenty of other social media posts, some with thousands of retweets, have made the same observation.
_ALL_ads are annoying!
Every ad-writing person, ever: We did our job right!
Adverts work by either appeal or by being annoying. But eventually one does learn to tune them out.. either by applying the brain filter, or by adblocking before it gets to the brain.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
It is so smug and self aggrandizing. The very essence of Apple. Exponential smugness.
I hate to tell you but an ipad IS a computer. Just because the packaging of the computer is different doesn't mean it isn't a computer. Just like your cell phone is a computer. It has a processor, memory, operating system, drive... sound like a computer?
The only possible explanation that I could come up with is if the commercial was supposed to be someone from the future, and they're talking to someone so old that they were from today's era.
But if you're going to do that, you need some flying cars or something to suggest that it's in the future.
As it is now, it's just a free-range child mouthing off to her neighbor.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
It's because the kid acts like an arrogant rich twit who can't look away from his screen for three seconds to have a decent conversation with someone. He looks like a poster-boy for smartphone (or tablet in this case) addiction.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
LOL, Apple just replaced the keyboard/mouse with a touchscreen. That's what an iPad is. It removed access to a filesystem also. It's still a (neutered) computer, no matter what that dumb, brainwashed kid thinks.
All those non tech geeks writing swift code on their ipads because hey, what's a computer?
A computer is a device that is user-programmable, aka you are not restricted to the apps found in the vendor's app store. The iPad is a content delivery mechanism much like a BluRay player (which has games too thanks to BD-J)
That pisses off a lot of Mac users. See the MacRumors forums if you don't believe me. Mac mini was last updated in 2012. It was downgraded in 2014. Apple is on the verge of killing the MacBook Air even if their new butterfly keyboards are crap, they're so obsessed with USB-C that they're dropping USB-A even though a lot of people still ASK for them. Don't like the overpriced MacBook? Buy an overpriced MacBook Pro instead! It's like they think everyone is as rich as americans. Mac Pro? They released a freakin' no-future-upgrade-path of a cylinder tower instead. Would have been cool for a Mac mini, pointless for pros.
Tim Cook really does seem to think iPads can replace computers, including Macs.
But most people with a Mac need to have it, just as PC users need their PC. Whatever your choice of OS, computers are tools to work with, not toys to consume data.
If a stupid tablet was enough, we'd buy tablets!
#DeleteFacebook
Another annoying ad is the Geico ad where the gecko is hosting a meeting in a conference room, and a call-in attendee is speaking at the same time he is. It's annoying when it happens in real life - We don't need to see it in a commercial.
I fail to see how this makes news on slashdot oh wait it's anti apple that might be how
It's not even anti-Apple, we already know Apple only makes toys for the mentally impaired.
You know what's the definition of "mentally impaired"?
Calling the most successful company of ANY type on the planet a "Toymaker for the mentally impaired".
If you try using an Apple toy with anything that isn't another Apple toy, you're going to spend at least as much time as that Linux user trying to troubleshoot it, except you're far less likely to find a way to fix it in the end other than to -surprise!- buy more Apple stuff.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Millenials are why we can't have nice things. This commercial is typical of millenial thinking by ignoring reality and history. Also, I like some Apple stuff, but I'm not stupid enough to think a single Apple product is the best tool for all jobs.
ipads are good for sitting on the john taking a shit, or reading an ebook.
Nobody lays on their stomach in the grass to play with a computing device.
Nobody.
A 'tablet' is actually a 'tablet computer'.
I disagree.
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out arbitrary sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. The iPad is not a computer because it is very restricted/limited (apps are restricted to the walled garden of Apple's App Store for example).
Just because you're successful doesn't mean you don't owe your success to exploiting idiots.
Just look at Trump...
Guess what the best selling beer in the world is? Budweiser.
Obviously, it's the best beer, then.
a "computer" is anything that does computations.
Humans, now and again, are considered computers; in fact a certain National Aeronautics and Space Administration is well known for its employment of human computers.
Pretty sure they made a movie about 'em.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese