Apple's New iPad Ad, "Crush": Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?(hollywoodreporter.com) |
Apple's New iPad Ad, "Crush": Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?(hollywoodreporter.com) |
Not my cup of tea, but everyone wants to shame everything nowadays. It's so easy to do virtue signaling by bashing, instead of creating.
There's been times in my life when any of those objects would have been nice to use.
That was my reaction too. The destruction. Also bothered by how sloppy/messy it all was. It reminded me of those horror films/TV where an atrocity is being committed and they play a cutesy song.
I felt sad at the end. I wouldn't have traded all those things (life, real memories) for a single computing thingy (where we do not engage life but watch others).
Now, it is Apple's turn.
Holy shit! No, I didn't feel that. It felt like it was trying to say the first thing.
I am a huge proponent of humans over technology. I fall on that side of essentially every topic. But this is just a cute/stupid ad for a tablet. The reaction to this appears to be negativity for the sake of negativity.
Maybe is not right there now, but eventually we might finally build some version of "The Internet" box from IT Crowd.
It appears that your feelings were hurt for some reason that escapes me. I do not know how to respond to that.
To me it looks like a combo of CGI bits and real bits.
> To me it looks like a combo of CGI bits and real bits.
On second look, it's entirely possible that they were asking that... I had read so many really defensive comments on other sites from Apple users about this ad, that when I saw this comment, it felt really snarky to me.
Your comment made me reevaluate it from a different perspective. It's like a night and day difference. So odd that I no longer see the snark. It seems like an honest question now.
Thanks for this.
To /u/pockybum522, sorry about that. Sometimes when the brain is exposed to a bunch of negativity, it begins to filter in a defensive way. I'm usually on guard for that. I failed this time.