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New iPad Commercial (Apple Gives a Nod to Newton with New 'What is iPad?' Ad)
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You do realize that just you posting about the ad defeats what you just said. This entire thread is chatter around the water cooler.
I knew someone would bring this up. Just as much as you would like Apple to stop using the word "magical" many of us would like for people to stop trippin' about it. Let it go, it only advertising, it's not hurting you.
If we really want to go that way, we could start a huge wine thread about General Magic and how they totally dropped the ball on inventing the World Wide Web and then screwing the marketing by limiting promotions on the Magic Pad.
Been told those are quite a collector item now.
I like the ad, it's informative. I get people asking me all the time "So why is this iPhone thing so good?" or "Why did you get a Mac?" and "Your iPhone is so thin! (it's an iPod Touch)", people have no clue about what Apple stuff is, and they also kept asking me what the iPad is, and this ad could help them a lot
Years before SMS? GSM networks started in 1992 in various European countries . While some very early handsets (Motorola 3200) did not support SMS the Nokia 1011 released in 11/1992 could both send and receive SMS. For several years SMS was a free(!) service.
Wikipedia tells that SMS was virtually unknown in the US for a long time, but that does not mean it did not exist.
But you ar right, not to put such a service on the Newton was a missed opportunity.
Christian
I like it. Nothing like real life scenarios to help showcase the iPad. Maybe this thing will start selling now.
Please say you're being sarcastic.
Great ad, not trying to be too hip and really gets you excited about the possibilities of the iPad. I thought it struck just the right note, hopefully they'll do more along these lines. Although I've never seen a whole screen full of web page thumbnails in iPad Safari, they just turn white when the RAM can't cache it, which is about after two or three of them.
LOL.
Its actually very good. If you turn on pen input on osX it seems to be the exact same text recognition.
Did you see the bit at the beginning where the passenger on the Moped was holding it under their arm while they were driving?
Would you seriously hold a $500 device under your arm, without any protection, whilst zooming around streets???
Oops sorry Apple, I forgot... The iPad is magical! All hail iPad
Would you seriously hold a $500 device under your arm, without any protection, whilst zooming around streets???
Oops sorry Apple, I forgot... The iPad is magical! All hail iPad
And then what??
John and Jane Q. Public get intrigued enough to stop by the Apple store this weekend. They play around with the display model and say... Yup, wrap us up one of those. In fact, make it two, we'd both like one...
AND THEN WHAT? Does Apple really have enough in stock to handle this? Are they just creating even more demand that they can't handle?
I've been wondering at the lack of ads but assumed they were waiting to get supply worked out, but I don't think that has happened, has it?
John and Jane Q. Public get intrigued enough to stop by the Apple store this weekend. They play around with the display model and say... Yup, wrap us up one of those. In fact, make it two, we'd both like one...
AND THEN WHAT? Does Apple really have enough in stock to handle this? Are they just creating even more demand that they can't handle?
I've been wondering at the lack of ads but assumed they were waiting to get supply worked out, but I don't think that has happened, has it?
Wow, the guy doing the voiceover on the Newton commercial sounds really enthusiastic and upbeat. Like Steven Wright on valium doing a commercial for hernia operations. "Cut! Steven, you don't sound pessimistic enough. Think Eeyore. Think 'I hate this product and I want to die'. OK? Aaaand roll..."
And I've still got a Newton. It was way ahead of its time. Light years. Sure it had some issues out of the box, first model, but it tried to fly before it was ready perhaps... I've got one of the later models.
It was so much better than the rest of the world... It was the Betamax...
It was so much better than the rest of the world... It was the Betamax...
Yes, it is Peter Coyote. My wife says that they should have gotten Sam Elliott. He could sell the pants off your grandmother... Coyote is the voice of LinkTV.
Unless you had a huge pocket the Newton wasn't going to fit, not even the OMP. It was rather bulky; but I do agree it was ahead of its time and a shame Apple didn't continue to develop it. The 2K series had a pretty good set of features - keyboard, slots for memory and modem, decent HWR. It really needed to slim down, get a color screen, and smaller slots - all of which eventually became achievable but Apple (Jobs) had already killed it.Now a NEWTON, I would BUY. A Newton can fit in your back pocket. An iPad needs a bag. That was the nail in the coffin for me.
...sticking with my iPhone because I just don't want to lug around this big huge thing.
The Newton was a decade before its time - it was an incredible piece of technology, and with ads that good, I'm surprised they ever went away.
Nice to see some different advertising. But holding that iPad with one arm on a moped with no case or protection at all for it is just asking for trouble!!!!
Haha! Yep, this one jumps the shark in the first few seconds. That girl is definitely on her way to hang out by a waterfall with her model friends where someone will shoot beautiful photographs that will end up in Steve Job's keynote iPhoto!
I'm surprised that the ad didn't mention about music.....either about internet radio stations or the iPod/iTunes.
I think they can get out of this on a technicality over the definition of "website". One could argue that a "website" is a site on the internet that is composed of "web standards". Any site that contains something that isn't a "web standard" isn't, by this narrow definition, a "website". So, any site containing Flash (or any other entity that is not part of a "web standard") isn't a "website".