Google's "iLost" Motorola ad faked an address to "lose" iOS 6 Maps(appleinsider.com) |
Google's "iLost" Motorola ad faked an address to "lose" iOS 6 Maps(appleinsider.com) |
It does look like the city understands the alternate name, not that that'd help you when you're out looking at street signs: http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/at/f1.jsp?submit=true&house_nbr=3...
Only the name of the city of Sapporo is written in kanji as you suggest.
>So why would anyone actually be "looking for 315 E 15th" in New York? The only reasonable reason would be to locate an actual address that does exist in Brooklyn
I'd be really surprised if Apple is checking whether particular street numbers are assigned when it is finding their location. That seems very dependent on iffy data. In fact, I just checked it, and it will gladly locate an address past the last number on a street, and just put the number at the end. (If you get really crazy with the number, it will say 'Approximate Location') Google does the same thing.
Know why that is on most cell phone ads?
Because other manufacturers complained of deceptive practices in advertising when Apple would talk of how easy (and quick) it was to do something on the iPhone compared to other phones...
I do love the anti-Apple explanation you have concocted from thin air though. Plausible enough that some might buy it. However most on HN won't buy it because they aren't 12.
And, no - the 3GS was targeted for a class action:
http://www.wireless-weblog.com/50226711/the_iphone_3g_class_...
"Twice as fast at half the price"
The venerable 37S acknowledged that, as a result, the 3GS ads started including that phrase.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1328-apple-iphone-ad-sequence...
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/30/siri-la-suit-fake-ad...
But nice pro-Apple shilling to make me sound like the bad guy.
-- signed, an iPhone 4, 4S, iPad 3, 2G nano, 160GB classic iPod owner.
Sorry, you're altering to your entire point from start to finish with this 'minor' correction? Had you actually said "Sequences shortened" I wouldn't have replied. However you didn't. You said: "Sequences and screen images simulated" a different phrase that appears in ALL commercials that show a screen on camera.
> But nice pro-Apple shilling to make me sound like the bad guy.
Two ways to look at this:
1. Either you intentionally lied, so you're just a prick trying in vain to save some face.
2. It was a genuine mistake, in which case bravo on this humble concession.
Granted, I can see your point, definitely.
The next sentence in my original post, though, referred directly to my intent: complaints that the ad deceived as to how "easy (and quick) it was to do something on the iPhone" versus reality.