I HATE APPLE

Finally a replacement for "Lemmings" as the worst Apple ad ever.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 4:12 PM (yesterday)

Apple agrees...

https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-it-missed-mark/2559321

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/technology/apple-ipad-ad-crush-apology.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crush-ad-criticism-1235895327/

lol

I hate apple

In fairness, if an apple critic made that ad, I'd be thumbs up, so really can't fault apple for coming up with it first.

rip https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-it-missed-mark/2559321

“In fairness” are you really putting the customer on equal footing with apple corporation

Fourteen years ago, many members of another community I was involved with saw the iPad as a huge innovation. For me, I felt that it was simply a consumption device to sell more content from the App Store.

I win.

Conclusive

I hate Apple and I don't think I've ever bought any of their products, but I can see what they were trying to do with the ad and it's actually quite funny how literally it sums up what the smartphone is right now, culturally and technically. I'd say it's a bad ad because it provides no illusion, just an uncomfortable brutal truth. Making music, films, pictures, drawing... what isn't done on the iPhone ?

I barely touch an actual laptop or desktop outside of work and do pretty much everything at home on my iPad. Tablet good imo

Don't feel like scrolling up to see if the following two things have already been mentioned:
1) the fact that there is no default installer so you have to use something like
homebrew
2) the fact that there are often old or acient versions of things there by default, especially bash, but even Pythoon

Heh at misspelling

It’s quite terrifying how even a small amount of tinkering can lead to a proliferation of multiple unpatched instances of pythooon across one’s Mac.

lol

You speak from personal experience?

I'm working on a project called Typhoon, I'm going to suggest any python bindings be called pythoon

I have an iPhone 5C in a drawer that I thought I might do something with. Like, turn it into an iPod, or use it as a backup burner or something. But it's stuck on iOS 10, won't show up on my Mac when I plug it in, and won't let me login to iCloud because iCloud requires at least iOS like 15 or something. I just want to use it as a dumb device, I don't even want any iCloud or phone functionality. Really lame! By the way i LOVE how small it feels in my hand. Almost miraculous.

What color 5c do you have

blue

Oldest one I have is a 4s, heavy af

My 4S plays the role of DJ Flan, a music repository in my car glovebox whose shuffle play picks are sly and mercurial

> By the way i LOVE how small (the iPhone 5c) feels in my hand. Almost miraculous.

My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini that I bought refurbished several months back, which I bought because it's only slightly larger and heavier, yet is reasonably up to date and runs the latest version of iOS. The follow-up 13 mini was the last of the Apple small phones (same size but a bit heavier than a 12 mini). My ageing eyes don't care for the smallish screen though, and I'm having way more difficulty typing on the small keypad than on the larger phone it replaced - odd since I don't recall having that problem with the first-gen SE I had a few years back, which is the same size as a 5c or 5s. I'll probably go back to a larger phone when the 16 ships presumably this autumn.

Yeah the keyboard feels very cramped.