Motorola suggests Apple's iPhone is feminine in latest TV spot - Page 5

Deceptive, sure. Liars, no.

Typically american to dumb it down to some macho BS. It's about usability and not hormones.

A rose by any other name

Perhaps they need Robin Williams to give it some life.

Yeah, everybody talked about Vista, too. Doesn't mean squat.

He's snarky, yes.

Smart? I'll leave that up to you to decide.

Who said anything about that POS? You prove my point. Thank you.

Looks like someone is trying to usurp Teckstud as the most bigoted poster on this forum. Its not easy to be as farcical and hostile as him but you are off to a roaring good start. Welcome to AI and keep up the good work.

I don't want a case, it becomes bulkier. Don't bother trying to find other ways to back up your point, its bogus.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up. It's getting hard to distinguish between parody and reality in this case.

Good first post, btw.

I wonder when Motorola's coming out with the limited 'Michael Bay' edition?

Nuff Said!!

I can't let this pass.

No serious feminist groups came to Sarah Palin's defence on her claims of sexism at all actually.

The way it went was:

- Sarah Palin is ridiculed for being the idiot that she is.
- Sarah Palin screams "sexism!"
- Sarah Palin's Republican operatives and a few right-wing female "personalities" join in.
- Serious Feminist groups remain silent.

Next they will be using swift-boat tactics ... Moto is getting desperate for sure.

I would say instead of a "great ad from start to finish," that it's perhaps a very "well done" ad from start to finish.

I don't think it's can't really be called "great" simply because it's negative, it mentions the competition more than it does it's own product, and it purposely isolates and denigrates a large segment of the target audience for smartphones. That's just not smart.

As much as my jaw dropped a bit when I first saw it, it doesn't *really* offend me that much. There's nothing wrong with Princesses, or vagina's in my book.

I also think it kind of backfires for that reason alone. Half the people watching it will be men and many will have the intended reaction. What the creators of this ad are just not seeing, is that the other half of the audience will see it in a completely different light. This ad actually makes me want to go out and buy a white iPhone, and I think a lot of young girls will see it and have the exact same thought.

I'm pretty sure there were no women in the room when this ad was thought up or decided upon.

Unfairly speaking in general terms, yes, but take a look around (the world) and add some self criticism maybe? A trend??? But hey, sorry for going there. Maybe a too seriously taken, or???

I concede to your point. The ad in and of itself is good, but the larger picture is that they are desperate for even going there, which is not good for the potential longterm growth of the platform.

I wonder if Verizon approved this ad since they seem to be the license holder for Droid under Lucas, not Moto or HTC. If Moto tarnishes the Droid brand for Verizon and their other Droid devices this may an expensive problem for Verizon.

To me it only shows how desperate companies can get to try and steer people to their inferior products.

When someone tell me that I'm not masculine enough because of my phone there's something wrong.
I laugh at them and don't buy from them anymore, as simple as that.

What they have to do is change those marketing decision makers "SUITS" at Motorola
they have no common sense clue as to what people are really looking for or need to make
their day to day chores easier.

They think slapping a touch screen and make a flashy trendy ad campaign it's good enough for users to make a decision.
They missing the whole point but let them live in that ignorant world.


IT"S THE GOOD EXPERIENCE PEOPLE, THE EXPERIENCE.......



I remember about the Samsung Instinct campaign that I was part of "They called it the iPhone Killer"and
they spent MILLIONS of dollars in advertising, paying well known spokespersons to say that they use one etc..... and they fell short to deliver as expected.

When people started using it, trying to download a webpage and saw that it worked like any other Windoze smart phone they returned it or didn't bought it.

FAILURE.

Moral....
Instead of taking the shallow easy approach,
study it for real and ask yourself the question:
Would I buy it myself?


Eventually someone WILL come up with another innovative HOT product BUT
in the meantime Apple did the right homework and had a short and long term plan.
plus they have a BIG lead in the consumer market awareness that Apple=Quality and it's hip.


GO APPLE>>>>>>>>>

I couldn't agree more......

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

j.

Why yes actually I do- all the time. You obviously don't.

Very good commercial for the Droid. There are plenty of people out there who are going to gobble this kind of stuff up. In a sense, aesthetics and image are the same sort of thing that drove many people to buy iPhones; this is just a different audience buying for the same reason.

I don't want one of the pieces of junk, but this is good advertising.

Most bigoted poster? Really? You could have fooled me with your history and you know exactly what I'm talking about. You even had to remove the post- REMEMBER?

Lame ad, but pushes some buttons. Why not.

Droid too will flame-out (like the Pre did) as yet another wannabe-but-couldn't-be-iPhone-killer. They're getting their 15 mins of fame for a couple of quarters.....

Teck, it isn't about Sol or what he might have said at some point.

This is about what happens to a thread every time you invade it with your trolling. Not only do you have next to nothing to contribute with your 5-10 word-max sentences, you revel in constantly baiting everyone to respond to them. In other words, you come here to troll. It's cute at first, but after a while it's the same thing - one liner sentences with a "laugh" emoticon designed as nothing more than bait.

Being a contrarian because you have something meaningful to say is one thing, but being a contrarian just to troll and provoke everyone here is entirely different. It's trolling. Read the forum rules and guidelines:

http://forums.appleinsider.com/guidelines.html

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4. Ad-hominem attacks of forum members will not be tolerated. We understand that things get heated, but it helps to maintain a modicum of respect for the membership. Attack ideas, not people. Be open-minded and try to help foster meaningful discussion. Yes, meaningful discussion is possible if everyone respects each other.

This one's particularly characteristic of your contribution:

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Scud missile? Soviet Cold War era technology?

How condencending are you? I'm attacked left and right and don't bat an eyelash. And if I can say in 5 words or less my point and don't have diarreah of the typing like you and your buddies- so be it.
AT least I don't spit out 50 points of links to fanboy garbage every other day and my posts don't read like I should have a pom-pom emoticon hooked on the end of them.
Talk about yourself please.

And finally - there is nothing in the AI guidelines that I am violating.

I don't think an ad that offends a lot of its prospective customers can be described as great. Did the ad agency pull creatives from their beer accounts for this one?

If you're female and you see this ad, you'll probably think "So Motorola's telling me I'm vain, shallow and dumb if I get an iPhone". In what planet is that ever a winning pitch?

They could have gone all-American and used "Patriot Missile." It's the obvious choice. Certainly, they were going for a generic missile name, but there's a lot more than scud to choose from that are in the public consciousness. Take Sidewinder, for example. Or Trident.

Moto thought scud was no big deal - it's a famous name afer all, and I doubt very many would even notice. Just something interesting to point out . . .

I think that's OK with Motorola.

I think Motorola has just given up on the females and the gays and the straights who like great design and ease of use. They just can't compete with that--the iPhone is too good.

So they're trying to go after an (untapped?) market: straight guys and closeted guys and perhaps lesbians who like to show off how macho they are. Because those people probably aren't really into iPhones: they think they're too femmy.

Closeted guys are often the most homophobic because they are trying to distance themselves from their fellow gays. And yet they're really gay inside, so they know how to come across with great one-liner, homophobic remarks.

You probably know people like that.

Exactly!

I think Moto's ad is effective, but in the wrong demographic. People who buy into the marketing line that personal appeal is directly tied to the aesthetics of the things they own generally aren't in the income bracket to be able to afford high-end devices requiring expensive service plans (i.e. good analytical skills generally go hand-in-hand with higher salaries -- nepotism and lineage aside).

The genius of the iPhone design is it appeals to both men and woman.

If they haven't given up, they might as well now. The ad is offensive.

It was this way from launch. The whole ad campaign has been geared toward a teen male demographic from day one.

The funny thing is that the phone is a retro design that would appeal to older males. Who probably are now less inclined to buy this phone given the ads make them look completely stupid.

"Is that the Droid? What are you 16? Get a frigging blackberry or iphone".

Actually yeah I could see an NFL player with a white iPhone. Nothing wrong with white it happens to be one of my favorite colors and yes I'm 19 and I'm a dude and no I'm not gay. When I got my iPhone I wanted white but it was not offered for the 8GB model, everything is black these days so white is different and black quite frankly is boring. Different does not equal feminine

pwned.

So if the perception is that this phone is geared for 16 year old boys that's probably not a great one for smart phones.

Amusingly, the droid phone I've played with the most is owned by a grrl.

Very interesting:

http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2009/...phone-pho.html

The majority of Mazda Miata owners are men, yet it is still very much labelled as a chick car because it has a very sizeable female ownership.

So buy a white case for god's sake! I really don't understand all this whining for white.

Wow, what a rip-off.

I guess that photo is pretty iconic. Amazing image.