Apple iPhone – Banned!
26 November 2008 by SilkyPrepare to have your mind corrupted in ways you’ve never before thought possible – yes, it’s the banned Apple iPhone advert:
Apparently, the above ad was misleading for “exaggerating the speed of the iPhone 3G”.
Shocking.
In their defence Apple said:
“No, but what it was, right, we were saying “It’s, like, fast when you compare it to the old way of browsing the Internet on a phone”, yeah?
You know, we were saying “The iPhone 3G is metaphorically this fast compared to someone shouting a load of zeros and ones down the phone at you, yeah, and you having to interpret them using an etch-a-sketch that your operating with your teeth”, right?”
I was having to paraphrase there a bit but you get the gist.
Anyways, even when taking into account the fact that if you have an iPhone 3G you’re so pleased with yourself that you don’t care if it’s not as fast as the advert implies and if you don’t have an iPhone 3G you could give a monkeys even if it does connect to the “interwebsitenet”, the ASA saw fit to ban it.
So, shame on you, Apple.
Shame on you.
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(14 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5)
5Responses:
Mike Empuria
Said on the 27 November 2008
I’ve always wanted an iPhone but after reading this I now want an etch-a-sketch. Must be nearly Christmas.
blibble
Said on the 27 November 2008
Is that all we get? Just one ad critique after about two weeks of me checking back on this site? Thought you hired some new staff.
Silky
Said on the 27 November 2008
@Mike, have you been a good boy this year?
Sorry, Blibble, I will try harder…
J Lightning
Said on the 20 April 2009
This is for all of the iphone adds really…
An invention for the lazy.
Which isn’t as new as they think it is. It’s been done before children.
Invented by people trying to take over our lives.
Narrated by a fucking twat who makes me change channel everytime it comes on.
And the music, oh the fecking music…
mike
Said on the 3 October 2010
im suprised people can afford iphone 4, are we still in a credit crunch or do people dnt seem bothered to waste the price of a desktop computer on a phone i think the credit crunch is fake like the moon landing