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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.
Can't tell if the kid is male or female.
California "thinking" in action I suppose.
No, it's not a computer. A computer can carry out an arbitrary set of instructions. An iPad can not, and will only do those things which Apple blesses.
> an ipad IS a computer
No fucking shit, Sherlock. Parroting that is literally the silhouette Apple intended for you to hold up; by setting the stage of the word "different", their implication of "ipad is better than a computer!" emerges without being needing to be blatantly spoken.
I want to say "it's still ham-fisted and bald" but if you guys are still way fumbling through your "omg ipads ARE computers" kneejerk then Apple's mediocre play is still subtle and clever by relative measure.
Keep up so you can scorn their crude methods with something less mouthbreather.
If your time is so worthless that you're willing to spend a Saturday searching stackoverflow to print to your wireless printer, then by all means, use Linux. Otherwise, use a Mac (or an iOS device). To each their own.
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!
Boo hoo.
If you can't afford a new cable for your USB-A device, or a $3 passive adapter, then you're the one with a problem, luddite.
People whined about the iMac when it ditched floppies and serial ports.
Two years later, you couldn't find a printer or scanner that used a serial port, nor a laptop with a floppy drive.
Get over it. Time marches on.