Apple pulls the controversial "Crush" ad and apologizes.
"The ad, posted on social media Tuesday by Apple CEO Tim Cook, was met with backlash from internet users who felt that the ad celebrated technology’s destruction of human creativity and art."
Kharkiv? Odessa? Dnieper? Maybe any other Ukrainian city that is under Russian shelling? No, this is Rostov-on-Don
Back in January, one of the entrances of a dilapidated building in the largest city in southwestern Russia underwent “negative repairs.” Residents of the entrance were evacuated without allowing them to take their belongings or even their animals. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#Putin
Coulter on Ramaswamy’s “Truth” podcast: “I agreed with many, many things you said ... when you were running for president, but I still would not have voted for you because you’re an Indian.” “There is a core national identity that is the identity of the WASP,” she said, using an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. “And that doesn’t mean we can’t take anyone else in ― a Sri Lankan or a Japanese, or an Indian. But the core around which the nation’s values are formed is the WASP.” #news#gop
Yeah, Apple has had a few advertising missteps in the past ("wHatZ uH cOmpUTer???), but this 'Crush' commercial is one of the darkest mistakes I think they've ever made. It feels like the intro to Fallout style dystopian story.
A far cry from the optimism of the 1984 commercial, Apple has become what they once rallied against... https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/08/apples-crush-ipad-pro-ad-sparks-intense-backlash-from-creatives