Re: Apple Has Really Jumped The Shark This Time

On 2024-05-11 01:56:43 +0000, John McCue said:

follow-ups trimmed to: comp.misc
In comp.misc Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Seems its new ad, showing a pile of musical instruments and other artistic
equipment being destroyed and replaced with an Ipad, has really pissed off
many in the creative community.
 <https://www.computerworld.com/article/2099740/apples-worst-ad-ever.html>

 I saw the ad but did not understand it, then I heard how
people hated it but not why.  I did think it was real dumb.
 Anyway, thanks for the post, at least I understand what it
was trying to say :)  And yes, I can see why many Apple
users were upset.  Many like to be thought of as creative
and destroying the tools they would like to use would be
upsetting to them.

The copncept of the advert is basically that the iPad can (if you want it to) replace any/all of those other objects - you can use the iPad to make music, paint images, do animations, etc.
A true "creative" chooses the appropriate tool for the job. That might be the iPad, it might be one of the many other objects, or it might be a combination of the two (e.g. sketching drawings by hand to then scan into the iPad for cleaning up and completing).
The whiners are simply a bunch of brainless morons with nothing better to do trying to get their 2secs of fame ... people are dying in Gaza and the Ukraine, and all these fools can do is complain about a f'ing advert.  :-\