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Still less dystopian than the vision pro with a dad running around his kids with a walled-garden-camera-helmet. Once may have been a mistake, twice means there
by baq 3y ago
Still less dystopian than the vision pro with a dad running around his kids with a walled-garden-camera-helmet.
Once may have been a mistake, twice means there's some psychopath marketing VP at the helm OR a joker trying to see far they can go before somebody actually watches ads they're doing before they go live.
- amelius 3y agoTwice means this is really the company vision, not just a bad marketing officer.
- chongli 3y agoThere is no vision. All I’ve seen from Apple since Steve died is continued momentum in the same direction.
- k7sune 3y ago“What’s a computer?” Should count as one too. But back then we just scoffed at the idea that an iPad can replace a computer. Now somehow we are offended or even terrified by the same absurdity that an iPad can replace a real musical instrument.
- portaouflop 3y agoI am both offended and terrified at the idea that an iPad should replace my computer
- z500 3y agoI feel like people were very much offended by the "what's a computer" ad too, at least on Reddit.
- infecto 3y ago"psychopath marketing VP" - how do you build such a narrative?
- morbicer 3y agoPsychopath? Perhaps a stretch. Soulless? Absolutely. Probably not just VP but whole department if no one raised the voice and said guys, maybe people won't vibe with this.
- UncleMeat 3y agoI think there is a third option. Deliberate outrage. People yelling at each other on twitter over your ad is free marketing. Tons of it.
- TheJoeMan 3y agoI was giving them the slight benefit of the doubt for that one, the VP can consume 3D photos and they hadn’t released the new iPhone that can take those photos, so it was more of a derived situation to get the plot to “you can rewatch rewarding 3D movies you took”. I do agree the test marketing groups are not providing good feedback about secondary interpretations…