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iphonenewyorkcity.com — A great 1 minute ad on the iPhone based around NYC.
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- delmarfoto, on 10/11/2007, -28/+11awesome.... i love the hype!
- WhiteIce89, on 10/11/2007, -9/+64I apple New York, too.
- crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -28/+22Anyone have a YouTube mirror? Quicktime and I aren't on speaking terms right now.
- Chicken, on 10/11/2007, -24/+7Great. Lets all get hyped up over an ad. We've never seen ads before.
- TheCount, on 10/11/2007, -16/+5Nice commercial, I'm from NY though, so I may be a little biased. The one mistake that really stood out for me (other than the fact that Apple pretty much avoids using real people in their commercials unless it's mac vs pc) is that he has the iPhone against a white background in the last shot, when Apple likes to place products against a black background to make it pop more... but I'm being picky.
- Sarawanan, on 10/11/2007, -6/+23here is youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zG7mOOHOe9M
- retral, on 10/11/2007, -29/+24Touch screens have been around for a long time on PDAs.. yet no one has ever really liked entering data on a virtual keypad.. It's so much better when you've got a hardware keypad to find your way on without paying 100% visual attention to the phone..
Yeah, bury me now.. - defectDS, on 10/11/2007, -5/+23Heeeeey! I know the song, and now you do to! It's a good one too.
"Young Folks" - Peter Bjorn and John - Scheissen, on 10/11/2007, -21/+6That music sucked.
- Ireland, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2I wonder did Apple have something to do with this ad? Unofficially of course..
PS, that song is in an ad the plays repeatedly here, I flaming hate that song. Love the phone though. - Jawsh91, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3Definitely a good song to listen to.
Definitely not the right song for that ad. - streak, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2Just like in the ad, even with all its LCD touchscreen technology, I fear people really will be saying, "It doesn't have a keyboard!"
- MaceSoul, on 10/11/2007, -12/+8Hmm... Apple users account for 3-5% of computer users yet are able to digg down even the tamest of Apple criticism in here.
They're like the Code Pink of the Internet, sucking all the oxygen out of any conversation with their rhetoric. - bradleyland, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4"Young Folks" is the hot new commercial song for 2007.
- ryaninc, on 10/11/2007, -2/+132For being an unofficial ad, that is one quality production. The video is excellent, editing is excellent, even the audio is great. I'm not even all that excited about the iPhone, and I really liked that ad. :-)
- j4200, on 10/11/2007, -11/+23This is absolutely a great peice of work. I love how most of it is in many different languages and cultures of NY.
Apple fans hold so much zeal. I love it. It amuses me soooo much. In this case its from sure raw talent. Who spends their time putting this much work into someone's product without them paying you a dime? - kernelhappy, on 10/11/2007, -6/+30 j4200 33
"It amuses me soooo much. In this case its from sure raw talent. Who spends their time putting this much work into someone's product without them paying you a dime?"
If I had to guess, a film student. - avatarpalin, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11It's a little more gritty and real than the apple adds tend to be and personally I think thats a great angle to take. Real people in real life talking about this new app, something we have been doing for months now. Although they missed one, the geek telling the non geek friend or co-worker and having him all excited and the co-worker with nothing but a blank stare...
- tehpwnrate, on 10/11/2007, -17/+4Buried as lame. Apple sucks and their phone does too. It's sad that someone wasted so much talent on this.
- streak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The writing sucks. Who would buy a phone that lacks a keyboard? People are elated over a phone without a keyboard? Not just once but multiple times in the ad? We never see how a phone could possibly be used without having a "keyboard". Ridiculous. Stupid. Terrible writing.
- j4200, on 10/11/2007, -11/+23This is absolutely a great peice of work. I love how most of it is in many different languages and cultures of NY.
- xaaronreevesx, on 10/11/2007, -5/+126the iPhone is good for everyone, even deaf people.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/11/2007, -2/+69That was a tad ironic, I have to admit.
- AngryBacon, on 10/11/2007, -5/+33They could have been mute.
- nreynolds, on 10/11/2007, -7/+61@ angrybacon
yeah...mutes have TONS of uses for a phone too. - TheNeonNinja, on 10/11/2007, -10/+0@angrybacon
And that makes it less ironic? - Antimatter3009, on 10/11/2007, -9/+6Well ya see, it's not *just* a phone, it's an iPod, and, uhh...screw it I'm not watching it again to get that list.
But it's really small! Smaller than this even!
But the screen, it's so big! - Sarawanan, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17There are other uses for an iPhone than to make calls. You could check email, surf the net, listen to music (if mute) and various other activities.
antimatter beat me to it... - jennamalia, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Most modern phones support TTY, so yes, they are useful for deaf people.
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Marlee Matlin admitted to having a cell phone on the Tonight Show. She calls up people and yaps at them all the time, and she doesn't have to worry about them talking back.
- dRuNk3nIrIsHmEn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2text messaging?
edit: damnit, smeagel said it below me
- Lumiras, on 10/11/2007, -9/+41There shouldn't be anything unofficial about that...Apple should put this on TV
But...yeah, the deaf guy...doesn't make much sense- GreySpec, on 10/11/2007, -16/+10The deaf guy does make sense dumbass, it's a internet terminal wirelesly at your fingertips. Ever heard of Telecom (or whatever its called) that deaf people use for typing phone calls. no more need for that service.
- smeagel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40Text messaging, watching movies with subtitles, looking at pictures, checking email...there are lots of things to do on that device without the ability to hear.
- Lumiras, on 10/11/2007, -16/+2@greyspec
***** off - Lumiras, on 10/11/2007, -14/+6yes, you can also do all of those things on a much cheaper device as well
- Gutterpunk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11@lumiras : Are you trying to tell us that the only reason to buy the iPhone compared to a cheaper device is because you can talk into it?
You might want to rethink that... - zero_bit, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11Every deaf person I know owns a sidekick. It has changed the way we communicate-- no longer being bogged down by a TDD unit and a receiver. I am looking forward to the iPhone a great deal.
- iomegadrive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+8Don't think just cuz you made the commercial you get a free one now!
- Dou6, on 10/11/2007, -40/+6Quicktime can go ***** itself just like PDF can. Yes we know you are super cool, and used a mac to make it...big whoop.
- Wickedboss, on 10/11/2007, -8/+19Relax , breath , relax and breath... Now go to Apple Store...Everything is gonna be ok now...
- eschompthis, on 10/11/2007, -9/+17whats next a appleTV commercial with a blind man.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8its still a phone yeah
but its also uselful for web based comunication by text
yeah thats right
deaf people can read they may not hear
but they can still IM people on it - nreynolds, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2ok, but I'm sure they can get something else to do that stuff for much cheaper that doesn't have a phone or mp3 player in it.
- KyleMistry, on 10/11/2007, -12/+3"Hi, I'm a Mac."
"What's that?"
"I said I'm- I'M A MA- aw, the hell with it." - dragon76, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4When I was in college the only computers the blind students could use were the Macs because they had text to speech and speech recognition. This was over 10 years ago.
- superkendall, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Hey buddy, I have a hint for you - those voices you hear while you are browsing Digg? They ain't real. So a deaf person browsing the internet can do so pretty easily even without all the voices telling him what to type.
- davepascoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1>ok, but I'm sure they can get something else to do that stuff for much cheaper that doesn't have a phone or mp3 player in it.
sorry if this comes as a shock to you, but so can people who aren't deaf. so what's your point? you think "they" shouldn't be allowed any of the limited supply so that there's more for the "normals"?
- Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8its still a phone yeah
- Paranoidmarvin, on 10/11/2007, -18/+5Does anyone in NY speak english??
- stormgren, on 10/11/2007, -5/+20The black woman with the African accent was.
- Sarawanan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12and those 3 guys before her
- zulfy26, on 10/11/2007, -15/+5They should have subtitled the 3 dudes before the african woman. I couldn't understand them. Just like I can't understand rap music.
- defectDS, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31Jamaican fun of me Jamaican accent!?
- luet, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4There are a lot of immigrants in New York... same with Toronto. I mean almost all immigrants to North America came in on Ellis Island. My grandparents did. And my grandparents, like most immigrants, usually speak in their original language with each other. Would you speak german all the time if you lived in germany? No.
Anyways, hi defectds! I remember your wii controller concept. - thespanielator, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6If you say "Beer Can" it sounds like a Jamaican person saying bacon.
- jimsf, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4Who is the music by? Cool ad.
- LesterWallace, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8peter bjorn and john
- higherness, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6For real, the song's called "Young Folks."
- vacuum2440, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28yet another example of the $400 million of free advertising for the iphone...
apple is really lucky to have such die hard fans because im pretty sure most of the "advertising" ive seen for the iphone has been from excited customers/news/people like this...just amazing- eastmanweb, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Actually, this ad wasn't made by an Apple fan. It was commissioned by Apple and is targeted to the NYC market. It will be on the air shortly.
- ThankTheCheese, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1@eastmanweb
state your source please?
yeah. i didn't think so.
- leftfield, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Man, it's gonna be tough not to laugh when everyone is talking about that spread your fingers to enlarge an image and all I can think about is "spread the taco". Thanks Kevin.
- tanveer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Here's the catchy song they used: (Awesome video as well)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0
Stuck inside my head ever since I first heard it trying out jeans in fitting room at H&M!- Dhalgren, on 10/11/2007, -7/+5H&M: Huge and Monstrous? Is that the new Big & Tall?
- baseball1332, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0YouTube mirror would be awesome...
:-) - arcologist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4The song is "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John, a Swedish trio. The newest album is incredible. Just saw them in Calgary, they're on tour right now, but just went through North America.
http://www.last.fm/music/Peter+Bjorn+and+John
http://www.peterbjornandjohn.com/ - MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Your right it is an ad for the iPhone. Great work guys! Two thumbs totally up doods.
- chowmein, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Okay.... but does it make phone calls?
- ReallyChili, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5SS-S-S-S-S-S-S-SPAM
- etjrowe, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1The page crashes firefox on my PC.
- Unbathed, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1"Crashed" is the natural state for your PC.
- allenu, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Nice ad. I hope you guys got paid for it.
- qpdb, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4you know apple is going to hire one of those guys now
- skellener, on 10/11/2007, -18/+7Misleading "ad".....they forgot to post the $500 & $600 price tag and 2 year requirement by AT&T at the end!!
- drzeus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Had they claimed that it would be "affordable" or something like that, then I'd agree with you, but they didn't mention the price at all. That's not misleading.
- mace2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Seriously, I saw that Mercedes Benz ad and guess what? It costs more than my Kia! What a rip-off. Misleading.
- djdole, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2Wow that's impressive!
To think there are apple fanboys out there with talent enough to do stuff other than troll Vista & Linux threads for flame-wars!
Oh yeah...and that iPhone video is impressive too.
// I kid! I kid!
/* (Kinda) */ - civperc, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4Who else besides me DOESN'T like trying to have everything under the sun in one device? The iPhone is cool, kind of - but I honestly prefer my devices to be separate.
- schavira, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Kills Camino when opened.
- HeatVision, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Well produced ad, but I don't think it's a good ad for the iPhone.
It doesn't have the energy that the iPods+iTunes commercials have, the humor of the "'I'm a Mac" ads, or the sleek simplicity of the real iPhone ads. There's nothing in the ad that make me desire an iPhone or think the iPhone is cool, despite how catchy the"Young Folks" song is. - bonkeykong, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Well I hope they got paid for that.
- ryanwritescopy, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0A fantastic example of design by comittee, when the comittee happens to be made up of salesmen. Horiffic.
- fokoko, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Wonderful. Diverse. A great example of targeting...well, the world
- 450bigblock, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Diversity these days really just means singling out a few select races and religions, with the occasional handicap person thrown in. It's really not diverse at all. But diversity falls under the umbrella of political correctness, so you're not allowed to criticize it.
- kmb1794, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2OMG I can't wait until people are recreating the sign language of spelling out "I Phone" on youtube.
- martoon, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1it would have been good if the music was kind of in tune
- yujie, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2They need a Hitler version like the xbox live one
- angle45media, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0I really doubt that this ad was produced for free...apple know the importance of viral marketing and I'm sure they hired some agency and gave them creative carte blanche to recreate the whole "diet coke/mentos/youtube" thing but with the iphone....
or it could be some film student's spec...
regardless the video was dope- eastmanweb, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1You are correct. This ad wasn't produced for free. It was, in fact, commissioned by Apple for the NYC market and will be on the air soon. The reason it's on youtube is simply because someone downloaded the Quicktime video from the producer's website, but that wasn't Apple's idea.
- twrife, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4Honestly that commercial sucked.
- MaceSoul, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4It took 5 people to make that crap?
[massitve bong hit] "dude, let's get a DEAF person to hype the iPhone." - ofenza, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1No portuguese, the 7th most spoken language in the world.... thanks.
- KoZo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2That was a really nice ad.
- yoadrian, on 10/11/2007, -5/+5your telling me Apple tries to rep popular languages in NY and doesn't include even 1 middle eastern language? I guess taxis drive themsleves huh.
- Billions, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Valid point, but remember it's not an 'official' Apple ad... Apple had no real hand in it. It's a 'spec ad,' ("speculative ad") something people fund and make themselves, to show their own skills and abilities, with hopes of getting more paying work.
Another example of a 'spec ad' is last year's hugely watched unofficial VW ad where the car-bomber blows himself up inside the car, with no damage beyond the interior of the car - it was so well done people thought it was real, and VW eventually asked that it be taken down as it was not how they wanted their image portrayed. - krolls, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Billions spot on, CHIAT/DAY (ironically since they handle the apple account) put together 2 Segway ads that were not commissioned by Segway.
- Billions, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Valid point, but remember it's not an 'official' Apple ad... Apple had no real hand in it. It's a 'spec ad,' ("speculative ad") something people fund and make themselves, to show their own skills and abilities, with hopes of getting more paying work.
- specialK16, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4"It's Huge!!!"
You mean the iPhone itself, yeah it is.- Billions, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Funny guy... Wait until you hold one. My girlfriend mocked one up at her work out of tape and printouts at actual size... It's a nice scale for a gizmo, and thin as well.
I hope I can handle the touchscreen aspect, specifically the lack of any tactile buttons. I'm really not a fan of touchscreens unless you're looking right at it - I used to try that with my old SE P800 and always had to look at the phone to make sure I was hitting the correct 'button' for dialing or deleting a voice mail... No more feeling and knowing you've got your finger on the '7' button while you hold it up to your ear.
Same reason those old Sony 'Remote Commander' programmable TV/AV remotes without buttons kind of sucked - no real way to know where your finger is pressing without looking.
Someone needs to develop a layer with a matrix of small pixel-pillows in it that can fill ever so slightly with a fluid or air so you can have tactile clues as to where your fingers are, but can still change when the visual on-screen buttons change.
Maybe next version?
- Billions, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Funny guy... Wait until you hold one. My girlfriend mocked one up at her work out of tape and printouts at actual size... It's a nice scale for a gizmo, and thin as well.
- MatchStick, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5ok, usually i keep my loathing of Apple internal, but this a disgusting perversion of the "I heart NY" slogan. Don't EVER associate ***** Apple with my beautiful home town (spare me the "big apple" bit). This is blasphemy...keep your Crapple in pansy-ass San Fransisco.
- porkdork91, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Seriously, I couldn't re-word it any better.
- krolls, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Great ad, these guys are obviously talented. The ONE issue I had is that i felt that the whole thing seemed a bit dark... there was to much light/dark contrast
Dont get me wrong however, great concept, great execution, this sucker is ready for network - arctic, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3iPhone, with it's remarkable 2 hour battery.
- Gigamesh, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0that is a really kewl ad, way better then the actual iphone ad's i say. although you can see in parts it is just lacking a little fine tunneing.
whats the name of the song by the way??? - superkendall, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3That's an excellent ad, almost as much for New York as for the iPhone. Makes me want to go back for another visit.
Just great stuff all the way around. - porkdork91, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1and you also get to recharge it 3 times a day!!
- sirnoucamp, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0excellent ad. i can not wait anymore
http://www.sharewealthwithyou.com/
Stanley Ng - unknownunknowns, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Thanks for ruining that song for me.
- unknownunknowns, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Also, I hope Peter, Bjorn, and John sue the ***** out of whoever made this.
- gokeyword, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0Agreed. It's such ***** they were using that song. It's not even appropriate for this ***** spec commercial, much less legal. I encourage everyone to Flag it for Youtube for removal. DIGG ME DOWN ***** APPLE FANBOYS
- gokeyword, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0Agreed. It's such ***** they were using that song. It's not even appropriate for this ***** spec commercial, much less legal. I encourage everyone to Flag it for Youtube for removal. DIGG ME DOWN ***** APPLE FANBOYS
- beggersfunk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I love the Ad not beccause of iPhone. Wonderfully made.
- Nova79, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0One thing Mr. Jobs never showed us is how to turn it "ON".......there has to be a "BUTTON" to turn it one, any ad shows it on all the time. It can't just be on still in the the box before you buy it.
I'd like to see that same ad have someone ask the other person,
"Well that's all cool.....but how do you turn it on?
Next person says...."Ummmmmmmmmm......just.....ummmmm.....dance like the people in the iPod commercial guess?
And so the 2 began dancing their hearts away not knowing how to turn the iPhone. Just one of the mysteries of life. - Vireo3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1wow, apple is supposed to be cool technology, wtf is with that corny commercial.
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