Silly reactions like that only make me think creatives are a bunch of crybaby wimps. Chin up and be a man! It's an ad made for shock value. If anything, it worked by waking sleeping people up and capturing their attention. Capturing attention is the aim of any great ad. It clearly succeeded. But had it been something more soothing to fondle the delicate sensibilities of those ever complaining creatives, it probably would have only worked to put them all to sleep. And people would have then complained that Apple isn't exciting enough. In the end, the moral is clear. PEOPLE NEED TO ZIP THE LIP AND STOP COMPLAINING! That alone would make this world a vastly better place.
The cognitive disconnect that it takes to write a post complaining about people complaining is astounding.
But interestingly, you complained about my complaint, and here we are. You did nothing to stop the cycle. And now I am complaining about you. That is why I spoke truth. Complaining is a disease like cancer that is hard to kill. But it should nevertheless be our goal to at least try. My post makes a step toward that. Yours does not. So there is the most glaring disconnect of all.
I understand the complaints. It's not about the actual destruction of the objects; that it's CGI is immaterial. The symbolism is at question: the replacement of traditional analog tools used by creatives with the iPad. It's not just, "You have a choice, this is as good as what it's replacing," but "The time is over for these tools. They are being replaced entirely." I get the existential crisis that message could trigger.
I don’t get that at all. I get “you need all of these things to do what an iPad can do”. It’s like “An internet browser, a music player, a communication device, a camera, a tape recorder, a video camera, etc… all in one device, Introducing iPhone.”
If one of offended by this commercial knowing it’s CGI, then one is offended at the idea of the iPad replacing them. That’s their prerogative. I can agree with that, but I don’t have to like it.
Horrible ad, I hope they bury it ASAP. Totally the wrong image for Apple - destroys all the tools creative people use and love? Good god, pompous as hell too!
The crusher was supposed to be extreme. But not truly destructive. It was more an almslg of all these creative/educational/recreational things into one product. It nailed the message.
If these softies can’t handle this, I’d hate to see them during a Michael Bay, James Cameron, frankenheimer, Nolan, Snyder, etc. movie.
It’s a conceptual message, not an attack on anyone’s creative process or disrespect for legacy creative tools or equipment. The obvious implication is that the iPad Pro incorporates all that historic goodness. I guess we’ll be seeing plenty of revenge “Will It Blend?” YouTube videos featuring the new iPad Pro. Or maybe people could just lighten up.
Or maybe people don’t have to like something that Apple created. This was done in poor taste.
The form and the function is always one.
An iPad is just a tablet. It’s not a music making instrument — it’s not a drawing tool, and so on. It can emulate such features but it will never have the ideal form of any of them.
It takes you further and further away from humanity.
Can you imagine if this generation of easily offended people had seen rock stars smashing their guitars on stage after a good session? They would have called the police on them, they are the same censors who called the police on Jim Morrison and many other artists… this generation is dangerous.
It's the biggest company in the world crushing all opposition. Apple's entitled to do that of course, so long as they don't break any laws, but it's certainly distasteful to be so egregious about it. There's a thing called modesty you know. It's not surprising to me that many Japanese find it so unsavoury. British culture too doesn't warm to this kind of advertising. It may work for US (and Chinese) audiences, but Apple is a global company, selling globally, and they posted it online where everyone can access it.
In that sense, the advert is a fail in my view. Old doesn't necessarily mean bad, and an iPad can certainly be used *alongside* objects like those pictured, without having to crush, destroy and replace them. It's out of touch.
You know, disagreeing with something or saying it's bad or a poor choice (which are the majority of negative responses I've seen) doesn't necessarily mean being offended. I thought that was fairly obvious, but apparently not based on the comments in this thread. I wouldn't be so quick to judge an entire generation. It's also a big generalisation. Maybe your experience is limited. Certainly what is shown on TV and how younger people are often portrayed in media can give that impression, but unfairly in my opinion. It might reflect more on who is producing and hosting the media than this so-called generation itself.
Can you imagine if this generation of easily offended people had seen rock stars smashing their guitars on stage after a good session? They would have called the police on them, they are the same censors who called the police on Jim Morrison and many other artists… this generation is dangerous.
The 'iPad' won't destroy creatives work, but the AI models and services it now unlocks surely will. That has been ongoing for a while of course, but Apple was supposedly the company to defend and stand with creatives.
Nothing wrong with the ad and it doesn’t need to be removed. It is a well done CGI metaphor. Do you really think that Apple is going to actually destroy real objects with all their environmentalism?
Silly reactions like that only make me think creatives are a bunch of crybaby wimps. Chin up and be a man! It's an ad made for shock value. If anything, it worked by waking sleeping people up and capturing their attention. Capturing attention is the aim of any great ad. It clearly succeeded. But had it been something more soothing to fondle the delicate sensibilities of those ever complaining creatives, it probably would have only worked to put them all to sleep. And people would have then complained that Apple isn't exciting enough. In the end, the moral is clear. PEOPLE NEED TO ZIP THE LIP AND STOP COMPLAINING! That alone would make this world a vastly better place.
The cognitive disconnect that it takes to write a post complaining about people complaining is astounding.
But interestingly, you complained about my complaint, and here we are. You did nothing to stop the cycle. And now I am complaining about you. That is why I spoke truth. Complaining is a disease like cancer that is hard to kill. But it should nevertheless be our goal to at least try. My post makes a step toward that. Yours does not. So there is the most glaring disconnect of all.
You did not just revert to being a child and go with the "I'm rubber, you're glue bounces off of me and sticks to you" defense?
Any, this is a bit of a reading comprehension fail on your part. I didn't complain about anything, I just pointed out the disconnect. The reality is that I rather enjoyed your comment for its lack of self awareness and just being utterly ridiculous. Likewise your deflection and attempt to make your whining more high minded was equally ridiculous and entertaining..... seriously? You think your commentary here is on par with battling something cancer? .... Someone get JDW a trophy!!!
I know amusing isn't what you are really going for but keep up the excellent work!
"The advertisers intended to visualize “compression of value” (which would have been easy to do in a cool way) and instead showed “destruction of value” with a few boldly misguided choices (such as making everything go boom kill cry instead of melt blend joy).
On the plus side, kind of cool to get an opportunity for culture to talk about how a well-intended image released by a beloved company that typically communicates so responsibly went awry and said the completely wrong thing.
Advertising is so boring and safe, we rarely get to talk/think about things like this. And what will be the response to the backlash? An statement that they truly do support the creative practices and traditions represented in the ad, and don’t want to kill and replace them with a computer? Good, I guess! Everything will be okay."
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If one of offended by this commercial knowing it’s CGI, then one is offended at the idea of the iPad replacing them. That’s their prerogative. I can agree with that, but I don’t have to like it.
In that sense, the advert is a fail in my view. Old doesn't necessarily mean bad, and an iPad can certainly be used *alongside* objects like those pictured, without having to crush, destroy and replace them. It's out of touch.
Any, this is a bit of a reading comprehension fail on your part. I didn't complain about anything, I just pointed out the disconnect. The reality is that I rather enjoyed your comment for its lack of self awareness and just being utterly ridiculous. Likewise your deflection and attempt to make your whining more high minded was equally ridiculous and entertaining..... seriously? You think your commentary here is on par with battling something cancer? .... Someone get JDW a trophy!!!
I know amusing isn't what you are really going for but keep up the excellent work!
"The advertisers intended to visualize “compression of value” (which would have been easy to do in a cool way) and instead showed “destruction of value” with a few boldly misguided choices (such as making everything go boom kill cry instead of melt blend joy).
On the plus side, kind of cool to get an opportunity for culture to talk about how a well-intended image released by a beloved company that typically communicates so responsibly went awry and said the completely wrong thing.
Advertising is so boring and safe, we rarely get to talk/think about things like this. And what will be the response to the backlash? An statement that they truly do support the creative practices and traditions represented in the ad, and don’t want to kill and replace them with a computer? Good, I guess! Everything will be okay."