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Apple Issues Apology for Controversial iPad Pro Ad — Pulls It From TV
Independent Journal Review ^
| May 10, 2024
| Bradley Cortright
Posted on 05/10/2024 12:26:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Skywise
Yep. Made me roll my eyes when I walked by the television and asked my wife what the issue was. (I don’t watch television)
The Left always argues that “it is art” trumps every objection, “Piss Christ” being a prime example.
As a matter of fact, art is often made specifically to be objectionable, as “Piss Christ” was. To provoke a response.
They are such children. Like the ones who do something, then look directly at you to see if their actions are successfully provoking a response.
Apple should have said “It is a commercial. It is art. It was meant to provoke.”
Instead they groveled and apologized.
Pathetic.
The “artists” who complained did so because it was their “ox that was gored”. Which is even more pathetic.
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posted on
05/10/2024 12:59:20 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
To: Red Badger
“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world. Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad.”Nothing says “creativity” louder than the constant use of jargon-filled clichès.
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:02:42 PM PDT
by
HIDEK6
(God bless Donald Trump)
To: Red Badger
I found it offensive - I had to listen to Cher screech through the whole thing
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:04:25 PM PDT
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
To: Albion Wilde; All
Digital media is incapable of replacing the tactile aspect of working with real media.
For a non-art analogy, why do hunters go through all the trouble and expense of deer hunting when they can just buy meat at the store?
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:13:58 PM PDT
by
skr
(Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:14:04 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:18:01 PM PDT
by
NWFree
(Sigma male 🤪)
To: Skywise
Fodder for people who search all day every day for things to be upset by
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:20:29 PM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
(23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: Red Badger
Not a fan of Apple at all. Watched the ad. What was the problem?
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:22:14 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
To: Jamestown1630
The message is that some of the great inventions and achievements of human culture are outmoded.I did not get that was the message. It just seemed like to me they were cramming all kinds of creative stuff in a very thin computer.
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:23:41 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
To: ConjunctionJunction
What’s the controversy?Indeed. the excerpt stopped before it got to that. I can only assume that some porkers took exception to "thin" being a good thing.
Personally, I think some electronics companies have taken this 'thinness' thing too far. I have an ebook reader that I use a lot, and to be honest I'd rather have one that was thicker if it had more battery storage. The thing should be able to be used for 24 hours before it has to be recharged.
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:25:57 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
To: Maskot
Think about it… Items that have been used for centuries in creative pursuits are being replaced by an iPad. Now you don’t have to learn how to paint with brushes, play guitar or piano, or an arcade game. Apple is “cancelling” all the good things that are traditional. Not surprisingThis was not the message I got. Just that they were cramming all kinds of creative things into the iPad. Nothing more. People are looking too much into the ad so they can get offended.
Secondly, for centuries musical instruments have improved as well. I guess the electric guitar destroyed the lute and should never have been invented or the synthesizer replaced the piano and should never of happened. Synthetic paint brushes should be destroyed and only horsehair should be used. We need to go back to using only animals and sea creatures as the source of paint coloring rather than synthetically created paint.
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:28:37 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
To: zeugma
They crushed a piano! Had it merely been just the loser instrument, the guitar, or some other loser instrument like the accordion, it would have been fine. But I have never been more angry in my life. You want to crush an instrument? Crush a euphonium. Or an autotune. Not a Casio or Moog, those are awesome.
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:31:59 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
To: Sirius Lee
Bagpipes are awesome, too.
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:32:36 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
To: Red Badger
The only good Apple ad was the 1984 ad. Unfortunately, Apple is now Big Brother’s handmaiden.
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:33:16 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: skr
I should probably make my analogy more in keeping with Apple’s ad. Why hunt when you can just use an iPad to order meat delivered to your door?
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:39:20 PM PDT
by
skr
(Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
To: PIF
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:42:01 PM PDT
by
sasquatch
(Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
To: Red Badger
What was wrong with it??
Apple, besides creativity DNA, apparently also has big pussy in its DNA too to pull this ad because of crying soy boys.
To: frogjerk
Nobody is saying to create paintings with horse hair brushes. Of course things improve as time goes on, the way it should be. What I’m saying is it doesn’t matter to Apple how good or bad any creative tools have been over the centuries… The iPad Trump’s them all apparently.
Until the power goes out… 😉
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:50:44 PM PDT
by
Maskot
(Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
To: sasquatch
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posted on
05/10/2024 1:51:08 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: Eccl 10:2
>>> I had to listen to Cher screech through the whole thing<<<
Exactly, that WAS the worst part of the ad! 😱
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