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Official Apple iPod Touch Ad (Created by a Student)
apple.com — In an unusual move, Apple will be airing a new television ad that started as a student project, according to The New York Times. The new iPod touch ad will began airing on Sunday.
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- doc99, on 10/30/2007, -12/+68turn out alrite ddnt it!
- lordtyros, on 10/30/2007, -3/+116Are you commenting during a police chase or something?
- sanj0hn, on 10/31/2007, -4/+92No, from an iPod touch.
- santa7, on 10/30/2007, -20/+12If only I could see it, quicktime plugin crashes every single time.
- HonoredMule, on 10/30/2007, -12/+17He's not the only one. If I didn't have an iPod shuffle, the whole chain of Apple-brand malware would never be allowed on my windows box.
- mentor972, on 10/30/2007, -5/+2So, it maliciously changes your registry? I doubt that. It would have made headlines.
- daza, on 10/30/2007, -2/+10Well it slaps its services all over startup, which is almost as bad. The amount of things you need to disable after an iTunes install is stupid. Thank God for Floola. Shame it doesn't work with the new generations, thanks Apple..
- ramsinks.com, on 10/30/2007, -2/+8(msconfig. shhhhh it's secret)
- HonoredMule, on 10/30/2007, -0/+5I especially love having to disable a system service AND kill a startup process AND make sure iTunes isn't running so that my shuffle will charge when I plug it in. In Windows, iTunes + Quicktime both are about as efficient and agile as a 747 is at transporting 3 passengers at a time. Then there's the browser plugin, that chokes and kills Firefox if too many instances run, or just for the hell of it.
- kingkilr, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2Open up quicktime, go to Edit->Preferences->Quicktime Preferences->Advanced and select safe mode in place of DirectX.
- cyberoidx, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/ipoditunes ...
Save as and enjoy- santa7, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Does not help any much more, if it crashes in Firefox it crashes in Quicktime. I have to get a f***ing converter just to see this damn thing.
I've always hated iTune+Quicktime
- santa7, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Does not help any much more, if it crashes in Firefox it crashes in Quicktime. I have to get a f***ing converter just to see this damn thing.
- HonoredMule, on 10/30/2007, -12/+17He's not the only one. If I didn't have an iPod shuffle, the whole chain of Apple-brand malware would never be allowed on my windows box.
- chuckpenzone, on 10/30/2007, -9/+89That agency owes this kid a job! Ad is awesome.
- LeeSoong, on 10/30/2007, -46/+5And the Touch still sucks:
No Add New Appointments in Calendar
No Saving Files
No Cut & Paste
No Adding or Saving Attachments to Emails
Can't type notes into it.
Can not read Work or iLife files, can not read .pdf files.
Can not save web pages or read web page archive files.
No Sun Java - so many web sites broken and wont work.
480i video output only ?!? - what a joke - 1080p minimum standard for current HDTVs.
Can't Record Video, can't schedule recordings, only playback limited formats.
No bluetooth - no bt headsets or wireless syncing with the Mac
No PicBridge photo printing - fill it with photos you can't print anywhere...
No Shockwave, No Flash games, No Real Player codec - say ??? to about 1/3 of the internet video content.
ARCHOS - Still 5 years ahead of apples pathetic attempt to produce a portable multi-media device:
http://www.archos.com/products/gen_5/archos_605wif ...
iPod Touch?!? It DOESN'T Do More than it does do - when it's not busy freezing in the middle of a song, or crashing trying to open web pages, or suddenly stops playing a video and goes back to the main home screen.
What a joke.- Crispuk, on 10/30/2007, -1/+22Get a blog.
- mercurysquad, on 10/31/2007, -0/+24Cannot cure cancer.
- strangewill, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Nah, thats a 3rd party app soon to be deployed.
- comradeTJH, on 10/30/2007, -3/+15You're right with your points. The only problem with that archos thing is - it's f***ing ugly. And huge.
- uhawl, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4And if you read any of the reviews of the Archos 605 WiFi it seems that they are pretty upset that everything comes at an extra cost... From the AV base station ((99.99) to even the web browser (30.00)... and on top of that, their movie download service cost 3.99 a movie to "rent" it and up to 19.99 to buy a movie (sans any extra content, special features or commentaries). Sounds like a money pit to me.
- Trax91, on 10/30/2007, -1/+6Cannot record video? I'm surprised that it has a camera, douche. And you obviously been living under the rock. The iPod Touch can be jailbreak and can install many of the missing features you've kindly listed. Oh and by the way, its an iPod not a PDA nor a smartphone, therefore it doesn't need all those PDA features.
- AndrewWiggin, on 10/29/2007, -0/+5"1080p minimum standard for current HDTVs"
That makes me laugh. Yeah, we all have AT LEAST 1080p, some of us more(??), on our HDTVs.
Oh, and 1/3 of the internet still uses RealPlayer? Or did you write that 8 years ago? - mfelkins, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3I might buy one just to piss you off.
- Zzone, on 10/30/2007, -0/+22The Archos looks great if you enjoy carrying a ***** phone book in your pocket.
- Volatile, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Plus, they aren't good for carrying around anyway. They tend to skip and freeze quite a bit.
I bought one of these things and while I do think they're aesthetically pleasing, I'd never think to carry it around now. I just use it as a small external harddrive at this point.
- Volatile, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Plus, they aren't good for carrying around anyway. They tend to skip and freeze quite a bit.
- Seph7, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Archos still sucks:
Because everyone who actually bothered look at that link got bored with waiting for the stupid heavily flash based website to load.
- LeeSoong, on 10/30/2007, -46/+5And the Touch still sucks:
- corporalclegg24, on 10/30/2007, -32/+24I dont see why they used it without making some parts look better. LIke the hand flipping the words the same direction everytime.
- Saiing, on 10/30/2007, -2/+32Err... because the whole point was to give credit to the student and not take his work and completely change it into some vaguely recognizable, corporate-produced ad. Me thinks you've completely missed the point.
- t.toe, on 10/29/2007, -2/+6Just because you think that would be better doesn't mean it would actually be better. The beautiful thing about art is there's no right and wrong way to do things.
- simplenation, on 10/30/2007, -7/+88it's great that apple gave credit to this kid and didn't try to sue him and steal it. they can if they wanted because they own the rights to their logo and product. i wonder how much he got paid.
- cozmoz365, on 10/30/2007, -3/+30It was a school project therefore not for profit, you can't sue unless someone is trying to make money from using your branding, design, etc...
- tedhead2k, on 10/30/2007, -11/+2That isn't really true, the video was still using copyrighted content. If he's not making a profit, that makes it a significantly smaller concern for Apple, but it doesn't make it legal.
- betterth, on 10/30/2007, -2/+10@TedHead
Please shut up if you don't actually know what you're talking about.
@Cozmo
You are 100% correct. Nonprofit educational uses of copyrighted material are protected under "Fair Use" claims. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use- HonoredMule, on 10/30/2007, -0/+6Not to mention the legitimacy of derivative works, though I can't say whether that applies here...I can't see the ad.
- crimson138, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1you are correct sir
- mariachi, on 10/30/2007, -2/+4@betterth
Incorrect. Fair use covers copyright, not trademarks. The owner of a registered trademark may commence legal proceedings for trademark infringement to prevent unauthorized use of that trademark, which they could have done in this case if the video were published to the world without Apple's consent, educational or not.
Please shut up if you don't actually know what you're talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark - Zarthia, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1We don't know if the vid was published to the world however i did see it on youtube 2 days ago. its possible that the person sent it to apple because the teacher or/and students said it was really good and should try to see if the company would like it or not.
- betterth, on 10/30/2007, -2/+10@TedHead
- tedhead2k, on 10/30/2007, -11/+2That isn't really true, the video was still using copyrighted content. If he's not making a profit, that makes it a significantly smaller concern for Apple, but it doesn't make it legal.
- deanjarvis, on 10/29/2007, -6/+1I'm sure they didn't pay him a dime. That's why corporations love consumer created ads, except for production, it's free. I agree, I'm a huge Apple fan, but they're advertising is pedestrian at best.
- Falldog, on 10/30/2007, -1/+10They gave him a gift card and told him to go buy an iphone for his hard work.
- JoeBaynham, on 11/12/2007, -7/+41. He lives in the UK No iPhone until 9th Nov.
2. You can no longer buy iPhones with gift cards
3. No such thing as an Apple Store gift card in the UK- daizaru, on 11/12/2007, -0/+13I think he was making a joke based off #2
- chillmandan, on 10/29/2007, -4/+1Uh this isn't an iphone commercial.
- tseif0, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2I see what you did there.
- JoeBaynham, on 11/12/2007, -7/+41. He lives in the UK No iPhone until 9th Nov.
- cozmoz365, on 10/30/2007, -3/+30It was a school project therefore not for profit, you can't sue unless someone is trying to make money from using your branding, design, etc...
- reallydigginit, on 10/30/2007, -5/+54Hate to be a dick, but I kinda like the original better.
Nevertheless: The ad rules. The song is catchy as hell and the pacing is damn near perfect. Goes by so quickly it seems like a 15sec spot rather than a 30. Makes you wanna see it again.- Angostura, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2I haven't gone back and looked at the original, but I think I agree - the original seemed rather snappier with higher paced editing.
- franksands, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4I just watched the original, and it has the same pace, but has more info: it shows a Mac + PC scene and that they have 8 and 16gb sizes. But it's a great thing anyway. Kudos to Nick!
- mollerade, on 10/29/2007, -0/+5agree original is better - go nick!
- lrdntwnd, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1I think they want the commercial to be as popular as the product itself. If you watch it enough, you'll want to buy it and if it feels short enough, you'll watch it over and over. Right? Maybe it's a good idea. But I do agree that the original felt a little more complete (if a little long).
- tyywebb, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Link?
- meamog, on 10/30/2007, -5/+2http://youtube.com/watch?v=_SctNJUtBLY
- demodawid, on 10/29/2007, -0/+5http://youtube.com/watch?v=KKQUZPqDZb0
- mrgono3, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/ipoditunes ...
i dont know if anyone else is experiencing crashes in firefox while trying to play the quicktime stuff. just download it
- mrgono3, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/ipoditunes ...
- Apoc, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
or
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/images/l ...
- mavownsyou, on 10/30/2007, -42/+19When is apple going to wakeup to the fact that quicktime sucks and quit trying to force it down peoples throats?
- johnnyutah001, on 10/30/2007, -19/+11i bet you're another one of those linux douches. everything should be freeeeee maaannnnn open source maaannnnnnn
***** off and go use your OGG VORBIS then you blockhead- bbardlbradd, on 10/29/2007, -7/+7OGG is actually superior in a lot of ways. I have no beef with quicktime though, but I can't say the same about anything W.
- dukeochutney, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3i tried ogg a while back and it didn't seem any different to me than mp3. maybe my ears just aren't sensitive enough. still quicktime blows ***** and you can get it for free. its still free crap.
- rexite, on 10/29/2007, -4/+3u can still watch the vid on youtube
- directive0, on 10/29/2007, -1/+5Man, its their freaking website and their freakin' codec. You think they're gonna use windows media or embed a youtube link on their own FREAKING WEBSITE, man?
- atdakore, on 10/29/2007, -2/+5buy a faster computer u noob
- johnnyutah001, on 10/30/2007, -19/+11i bet you're another one of those linux douches. everything should be freeeeee maaannnnn open source maaannnnnnn
- Eugenia, on 10/29/2007, -26/+6It doesn't play on my Windows and Firefox. It works on IE, but not on Firefox (other Quicktime videos don't have a problem on my firefox btw)
- Invalice, on 10/29/2007, -1/+16works for me mate. I'm on firefox.
- championchap, on 10/29/2007, -6/+2Same problem here, least I'm not the only one.
Guess I'll watch it in Opera instead.. - william, on 10/29/2007, -4/+1Same here does not work in Firefox, but works in IE.
- fultonla, on 10/29/2007, -0/+8I'm on firefox...works here
- benguild, on 10/29/2007, -2/+4I'm on Firefox, and the browser crashes every time I load this page.
- william, on 10/30/2007, -1/+4I found out the problem, all you have to do is disable Adblock. Then Quicktime should work.
- chill1217, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1i had crashes on firefox and ie and i don't have adblock. try going into the advanced tab under preferences (in quicktime) and selecting Safe Mode (GDI only), that worked for me
- HonoredMule, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1Worked for me too, after another crash caused a browser restart.
Wasn't worth the effort of debugging though. Meh.- MtheoryX, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3Meh. Your comment wasn't worth reading. Meh. Maybe not even worth you posting it. Meh.
Meh.- HonoredMule, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1Meh, too, eh?
- MtheoryX, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3Meh. Your comment wasn't worth reading. Meh. Maybe not even worth you posting it. Meh.
- HonoredMule, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1Worked for me too, after another crash caused a browser restart.
- rabidbob, on 10/30/2007, -16/+76If the ad had of been for the Zune then Steve Balimer would be throwing a chair at him at this moment instead of using the advert ...
- gcnaddict, on 10/30/2007, -1/+3Actually, J Allard would've given him a lifelong career.
You remember Allard, right? The guy that looks like Lex?
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/jallard/de ... - McInternet, on 10/29/2007, -2/+0And here's Zune's version from last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-AJrnJNZb4
- gcnaddict, on 10/30/2007, -1/+3Actually, J Allard would've given him a lifelong career.
- Tivor, on 11/03/2007, -1/+42I heard about it a few days ago, and I saw it on TV today during the World Series broadcast.
Regardless of what one may think of Apple, that is a pretty sweet move by a big corporation. - Invalice, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2that was pretty good, for an ad
- Shorties, on 10/30/2007, -1/+41I saw the original on Youtube and thought it was OK, but I assumed apple was going to completely revamp it and just use the idea, but wow they just took everything he did and touched it up a little and it looks great along with being completely true to his original, I give both Apple and the guy who created it props on this one.
- icarussmicarus, on 11/05/2007, -1/+36For those wondering, the song is 'Music Is My Hot Hot Sex' by Cansei de Ser Sexy (aka CSS)
- lordtyros, on 10/30/2007, -2/+16lol CSS was one of the preloaded artists on the Zune. They were destined to be immediately deleted.
- PulpAffliction, on 10/30/2007, -3/+2I love CSS in a way that is unhealthy. Lovefoxx is the *****.
- cr3ative, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1*fap fap fap fap fap*
- luag, on 10/29/2007, -6/+14Is this the same one that was on digg's front page a couple of days ago?
http://digg.com/apple/Student_s_Ad_to_be_used_by_A ...- 0xFEEDFACE, on 10/30/2007, -5/+4It's on Digg... do you have to ask? :-D
- JerMe, on 10/30/2007, -0/+14This is the official Apple advertisement, not the original by Haley.
- Xolotl2, on 10/29/2007, -11/+4too many transitions
- InitialDMP5, on 10/29/2007, -3/+2the whole point is to simulate the use of the iPod touch. You touch the screen and swipe and flick etc. Wow....I bet you say "I don't get it" a lot, don't you?
- Xolotl2, on 10/29/2007, -3/+4I have no problem with the use of the swiping, but the ad is mostly black, and the flashes of white hurt the eyes.
- InitialDMP5, on 10/29/2007, -3/+2the whole point is to simulate the use of the iPod touch. You touch the screen and swipe and flick etc. Wow....I bet you say "I don't get it" a lot, don't you?
- placidified, on 10/30/2007, -0/+15im just really wondering, how much did the student get for his work?
- counterplex, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7Might have been nothing more than recognition - which is still a pretty good deal. When was the last time your work was on national TV?
- antdude, on 10/29/2007, -2/+7I can't wait to see it on TV.
- timf, on 10/31/2007, -5/+11What the hell is wrong with you?
- mercurysquad, on 10/31/2007, -2/+8he's the kid
- ramsinks.com, on 10/29/2007, -4/+1Tinny Tim, stop acting like your so cool 14yo behind mommies Dell.
- ramsinks.com, on 10/29/2007, -4/+1Tinny Tim, stop acting like your so cool 14yo behind mommies Dell.
- mercurysquad, on 10/31/2007, -2/+8he's the kid
- timf, on 10/31/2007, -5/+11What the hell is wrong with you?
- RiotOfWords, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3I saw it earlier tonight, I had recognized it from the older story. Congrats to the creator.
- Philluminati, on 10/30/2007, -0/+13*****! I want one
- cyberoidx, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1a *****?
- Xanthan, on 10/30/2007, -0/+42They didn't just revamp the original, they flew the student in to recreate a HD version of his YouTube vid to use for their commercial. I'm sure he got paid and/or free products.
- pedepy, on 10/29/2007, -4/+0thats odd ... im actually prefering the original after viewing it *after* the Apple version
- cyberoidx, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1Yeah, they probably gave him Apple Gift Cards.
No Cash you see.....
- bbardlbradd, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2I thought it was refreshing. I'm tired of hearing old(er) people talk all boringly about cool things.
- Monkeywithacold, on 10/29/2007, -9/+4music is my boyfriend...da da da dada
yeah its catchy. - spambutcher, on 10/29/2007, -13/+6nice ad - too bad I had to restart it 5 times to watch it over a 1.5mbps DSL line...
you'd think with all the super-geniuses at apple - they could do something about how badly quicktime sucks...- eyebits, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4Hmmm...it played perfectly for me on my iPhone. Maybe its your dsl connection that sucks...
- crashingechelon, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1Quicktime works just fine for me. The video loaded up on the first try without any problems. I do have to go with eyebits and say it's probably your internet connection since I have a 6mbps Cable line and it all works well and it played well on eyebits iPhone.
- OptimismPrime, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1lets see here....
Apple related topic - check
comment losely based on the topic - check
statement about how badly an apple product or service sucks - check
I hate to be the one to break the news to you mr, but your digg article seams to be troll infested- spambutcher, on 10/29/2007, -1/+0troll? do a quick search through this thread - you'll find a half-dozen other people reporting similar problems.
Would be a non-issue with almost any other video format. I bet over half the people trying to view the video had a bad experience.
apple makes a lot of great products - quicktime is not one of them.
- spambutcher, on 10/29/2007, -1/+0troll? do a quick search through this thread - you'll find a half-dozen other people reporting similar problems.
- zlam, on 10/29/2007, -3/+3Wonder what the band said? First this kid on youtube makes "fan commercial", or whatever one should call it. Then the big guns from apple wants to use it. And somewhere in the world (Brazil I think I read somewhere) , there's a fairly obscure band(hope it's not me beeing too old and dusty) hitting jackpot. They're probably laughing all the way to the bank by now.
- richardiscool, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2CSS are not obscure.
- sholt, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1They are outside of the Pitchfork/Indie/Dance club scene. Of course, in that scene they're old news.
- richardiscool, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1No they're not, they get airplay on Radio 1 etc.
- DashofPanache, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1No, they are part of the Pitchfork/Dance scene. They had a piggyback hit with "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above," a reference to a relatively popular drum-and-bass rock/electronica band. Pitchfork and the indie scene picked up on it and have added them to their stable of bands that they'll occassionally report on.
- sholt, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1They are outside of the Pitchfork/Indie/Dance club scene. Of course, in that scene they're old news.
- richardiscool, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2CSS are not obscure.
- HUKI365, on 10/30/2007, -1/+11I hate the "fade" to white. Its attention grabbing - but way to "jerky".
- mariachi, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2just like your right hand when you go to bed
- crawf061, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1*wonders how mariachi knows this*
- mariachi, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1I like to watch
- crawf061, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1*wonders how mariachi knows this*
- mariachi, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2just like your right hand when you go to bed
- Matrix_Prime, on 10/30/2007, -6/+2I saw this as last night on TV.
- suriyou, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2Wow, good for you.
- mariachi, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4oh, so YOU are the one who saw it! I was wondering who that was!
- geuis2, on 10/30/2007, -0/+14reflects apple's style pretty well. Good for this guy, hopefully leads to more success for him later. Awesome on his resume, "Sold my commercial to Apple, Inc."
- Ireland, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1His resumé, but he's studying politics :P
- briankeith, on 10/30/2007, -1/+6I'm seriously not an Apple fanboy but, I thought the original was ok. But, oddly enough, this is very close to the original and yet I really, really like this ad. Maybe it's the crisp HD picture, or the Clear sound with bass I can feel (the original I saw was a youtube video, not quite known for video/audio fidelity : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQUZPqDZb0 )... Just watched it again.. it's the video quality that made all the difference. I'm a sucker for HD.
- sengo, on 10/29/2007, -9/+2Ugh, that sucked. Good music, but my eyes were bombarded with strange light, shapes and colours.
- inspireology, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Quite a nice little ad. Congrats to the kid!
- pwim, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4The flashes of white light were annoying.
- shankarganesh, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2.... "will BEGIN airing"
- h0zae, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2Aired at the end of the World Series...
- macwac, on 10/30/2007, -1/+20Great stunt by Apple.. now they will get 10,000 people creating Apple ads and spam digg, youtube and their personal blogs!
- tinkerbelle, on 10/29/2007, -0/+7It was moving a little too fast for each scene to register... but not bad work for a budding amateur!
- faiox, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2I agree. I felt like I was being smacked in the face by all the features. The photos part is on screen for a total of 2 seconds.
- samrum, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3The idea for the commercial is great, but it feels like everything is moving by way too fast.
- Magnolit, on 10/29/2007, -2/+3What's the name of the song?
- Magnolit, on 10/29/2007, -1/+4Ok I got it: CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
- ThreeDee912, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1Heh, it's only been posted over 5 times in the comments and right below the ad...
- rupprupp29, on 10/30/2007, -6/+4What a pitiful year for ad agencies everywhere... during this past Super Bowl, there were at least 2 commercials aired which were designed by ordinary people who won contests. And if my memory serves me right, those commercials were just as good as any other Super Bowl commercial last year.
Now Apple is turning to college students to make their ads?- 0xFEEDFACE, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7Why is it pitiful? If anything, the ad agencies that use consumer-created ads are doing their job: they're establishing a connection with the community on behalf of the company employing them.
It's not that Apple's "turning to college students", but rather that Apple is acknowledging that a consumer has created something worth playing on national TV. I'd say that's a pretty effective company to community connection right there...- OptimismPrime, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Here's someone who, IMHO, totaly got it.
Not only do i totaly agree with 0xFEEDFACE's opinion,
but look at the name! looks like a memory address but..... feed.....face.....i think i have to put you in my friends list simply for the fact that someone with such a witty name simply has to digg realy cool stories - rupprupp29, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1I guess that's a different spin on it. I was thinking along the lines of, these people (ad agencies) get paid to come up with ads and there are other people doing their job just as good as they are.
A good point though - good job of getting their product out but a poor job of actually creating their own commercials.
- OptimismPrime, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Here's someone who, IMHO, totaly got it.
- 0xFEEDFACE, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7Why is it pitiful? If anything, the ad agencies that use consumer-created ads are doing their job: they're establishing a connection with the community on behalf of the company employing them.
- waydee, on 10/29/2007, -7/+1When I see someone searching for uninspired whiney ***** like keane, I know this isn't the product for me.
- macsrock888, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1wow that was really good way more polished than the original just makes me want an iPod touch even more.
- restlessdesign, on 10/29/2007, -2/+4it's cool they're using it and all, but i wasn't too impressed with the concept or the execution.
- exomni, on 10/29/2007, -5/+2Too many big words. Obviously created by a student, some of the slides felt chopped together out of not enough resources. Should improve on it with the company assets.
- nhprm, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Which ***** words?!?!? if that was sarcasm, ok.. but I wanna know which words you thought were big.
Or, do you mean big in actual font size. lol
- nhprm, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Which ***** words?!?!? if that was sarcasm, ok.. but I wanna know which words you thought were big.
- Shenaniganz08, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1It seemed a little choppy ( downloaded the 8.32mb file and it plays fine on the offline player though ???)
Props to apple for doing this- mariachi, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1yeah, it's not so good over 14.4kbps
- Khoji, on 10/30/2007, -1/+8There's a serious mistake in the ad, which is a result of the Apple blinkers everybody involved was wearing: The great majority of the potential customers will have no idea what "Safari" is. That text should be replaced with "Web browser".
- znicket, on 10/29/2007, -0/+4True... but it is a good way to get the name out there. You see Safari there, here and soon everywhere!
- mercurysquad, on 10/29/2007, -2/+3"WiFi" will imply a browser, since there is not much else you would do with it.
- slimdizzy, on 11/09/2007, -5/+3Not much you can do with WiFi other than browse the net??? How bout syncing with your itunes and ***** without going to you mac or pc. maybe a Skype app for it will come out probably. Watch videos from your media server, pics, etc. And I ***** hate Apple and all their products but you sir are just not thinking today. Don't digg me down for saying I hate Apple, its not like im bashing it here or anything. (Right at you fanboys who all you do is digg down anyone who remotely dosen't think apple is king.)
- ShinRaTDR, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1Don't be a bitch about it, you know what he meant.
- slimdizzy, on 11/09/2007, -5/+3Not much you can do with WiFi other than browse the net??? How bout syncing with your itunes and ***** without going to you mac or pc. maybe a Skype app for it will come out probably. Watch videos from your media server, pics, etc. And I ***** hate Apple and all their products but you sir are just not thinking today. Don't digg me down for saying I hate Apple, its not like im bashing it here or anything. (Right at you fanboys who all you do is digg down anyone who remotely dosen't think apple is king.)
- smartratings, on 10/29/2007, -1/+0The ad is great. It makes you want to buy one for sure. I just wonder why some editorial sources didn't like it. PCWorld, ArsTechnica and MobilityToday gave it a lower than average rating: http://www.smartratings.com/review/electronics/mp3 ...
- Zippo, on 10/29/2007, -0/+7Song fits the ad perfectly... I like it.
- chesbomb, on 10/29/2007, -3/+3mcnuggets mcnuggets what!
- qetuo, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2better than the ones apple came up with by its self
- Recyclable, on 10/29/2007, -3/+3Props to the kid for getting it made and stuff, but it's a fairly uninspiring advert :/
- meason, on 10/29/2007, -0/+0I agree. I attend a design school and while it was a nice job, to me, it looks like student work. Awesome by Apple tho and a great feeling for us up and coming design students.
- iguanapunk, on 10/30/2007, -10/+5Buried, for crashing my browser.
- dn11, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2yeah it crashed mine too... and that has been happening with increasing frequency with embedded quicktime videos. but let me take a wild guess... if I loaded the page with Safari instead of Firefox it would run perfectly.......
- OptimismPrime, on 10/30/2007, -2/+3burried, for using a browser or underlying OS that can be crashed by something that works flawlessly on 2 OSes and 3 browsers i tried it on (OSX 10.5 Safari, WinXP Firefox, WinXP Opera)
- Slrarp, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1buried because I use win xp and firefox and it crashed.
also because you spelled "buried" wrong. Perhaps you should use firefox more, it has spell check.- OptimismPrime, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1neither a native speaker, nor having my non-english Firefox on WinXP (being my main browser) giving me the slightest hint of something being misspelled.
could have used the digg spellcheck though.
- OptimismPrime, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1neither a native speaker, nor having my non-english Firefox on WinXP (being my main browser) giving me the slightest hint of something being misspelled.
- Slrarp, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1buried because I use win xp and firefox and it crashed.
- dualityone, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3Fantastic work - and music by CSS which is always good.
- nyrol2, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3I love that this song was used in a Zune commercial as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-AJrnJNZb4- pirloui, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1Wow, that zune ad had bad moral... (didn't like it at all)
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