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How is this different than the "Think Different" Jobs era ads with Einstein and Martin Luther King? Or the giant American flags waving over every car lot? Or
by jwiley 8y ago
How is this different than the "Think Different" Jobs era ads with Einstein and Martin Luther King?
Or the giant American flags waving over every car lot? Or pictures of veterans learning to walk again on an add for Prudential insurance?
This is a very old marketing game, and I'm sure whatever qualms the team creating it had, if any, were overruled by the need to make it rain and get bonuses and keep all of us engineers employed.
"Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack."
- bredren 8y agoI too thought of this campaign. Fwiw, I do think Apple and Google are different today in how they handle consumer privacy. That includes how information collected on minors or new adults is used. I also do not think Apple would use historical figures in this way anymore.
- village-idiot 8y agoThey don’t need to anymore.
- bitmapbrother 8y ago>Fwiw, I do think Apple and Google are different today in how they handle consumer privacy. So we're conveniently going to ignore how Apple violates user privacy by handing over their cloud data to the Chinese government? It goes both ways. If you're going to be a proponent of user privacy then don't be a hypocrite and bend over to the Chinese government. Apple clearly values their Chinese profits over the privacy of their Chinese users.
- bassman9000 8y agoA study released this week in the Journal of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics found that 95% of the most downloaded apps designated as “designed for families” in the Google Play Store contain some form of embedded advertising. Because of this. Because some line has to be drawn.