XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2024-05-10, Chris Schram  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 10 May 2024 14:33:50 -0700, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-05-10 14:30, Andrew wrote:   
   >>> Jolly Roger wrote on 10 May 2024 18:33:42 GMT :   
   >>>   
   >>>>> I found the ad visually stunning on one level, but pretty creepy on   
   >>>>> another. Overall, not the best way to tout the iPad's artistic   
   >>>>> versatility.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I usually tune out Apple advertisements during their announcements   
   >>>> (and I generally avoid watching advertisements in general anyway). I   
   >>>> was indifferent to it when I watched it again, and I don't take anyone   
   >>>> claiming to be offended by it very seriously. It's just an ad.   
   >>>   
   >>> Given all your statements about Apple come from Apple advertisements,   
   >>   
   >> LOL!   
   >   
   > Well, now that Arlen has entered the room, I suppose this conversation is   
   > over. So I guess It's now OK to broaden the discussion, and eventually   
   > drag it far off-topic.   
   >   
   > In an online article commenting on the recent Apple ad, it was hinted that   
   > videos of various objects being crushed by a hydraulic press has become   
   > some sort of social media meme, perhaps a logical successor to "Will It   
   > Blend." Perhaps I lead a sheltered life, but I have not viewed other such   
   > videos. That would make Apple's ad a humorous (?!) parody of an existing   
   > meme. I'll bet the committee that dreamed it up had a great laugh.   
      
   I mean other companies have made similar commercials for many years.   
   Strangely, the internet didn't melt down over them. But this is Apple,   
   so...   
      
   > I'm really overthinking this, but the more I overthink it, the concept of   
   > crushing traditional creativity tools to splinters and goo, before   
   > compressing them into an iPad, seems not the very best way to advertise   
   > the iPad's creativity tools.   
      
   It's a light-hearted advertisement, and nothing more. People reading too   
   much into it is exactly how we got here in the first place.   
      
   > So Stephen Colbert's parody is a parody of a parody of a social media   
   > meme. My brain hurts!   
      
   I think Social media is nothing without parodies.   
      
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