@craiggrannell I get why Folium is having issues, but they must have known about Provenance and others before.
Otherwise I feel like they're shooting themselves in the foot. Again.
@darylbaxter But iDOS is being put through the ringer for reasons that make no sense whatsoever. and MAME4iOS is being repeatedly rejected for spam. None of that really looks good.
I’d also love to be a fly on the wall when someone submits mini vMac. I’d say there’s zero chance of that going through.
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."
« #Apple doesn’t understand why you use technology » by Elizabeth Lopatto
« This ad does highlight a particular Silicon Valley attitude: It scorns the past as outdated rather than respecting it as clever. In some sense, these companies have to: they’ve got products to sell. »
A tablet will never replicate the experience of playing a physical piano or ukulele for me. I still read physical books over using a kindle. When I draw and paint it’s with a real pencil and paint brush.
If that makes me a Luddite, then I’m proud to be one.
@JugglingWithEggs It’s entirely possible to embrace the digital over the analogue in many of these instances and still find this ad… distasteful at best.
Crushing products of any kind, but particularly those associated with creativity, in the days of over-consumption and AI coming for the arts after ripping off those artists, is just tone deaf. #Apple should pull their ad and apologise.
I reflexively cringed when I saw this ad. Not only is it wasteful, the message sent across appears to be that Apple literally crushes all the things you like to make the new iPad.
Well, that's a first! My iPhone was reading a web story and #siri on a #homepod decided some passage was a request to play a song. Now #AI's are talking to each other? #Apple#funny
@davemark New today: Apple has apologized for the ad rubbing creatives the wrong way. Like the eraser-less Apple Pencil Pro that @gruber got instead of one with a virtual eraser on the opposite rounded end. I love that idea, seems like such a natural fit (and would have fit perfectly with the pencil-flicking animation for the event).
The brutal #Apple iPad ad makes me want to smelt down all my devices and turn them into a nice figurine or something. The clip is like a horror movie and they mean it. https://youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc?feature=shared
Apparently a lot of people (esp Japanese?) are upset at this new #Apple#iPad Pro ad from a couple of days ago. I guess I can see why though, a bit like throwing thousands' worth of food away just for content?
@irfan Sorry for the Xitter link, but that’s where this filmmaker posted this “fixed it for you” version that just runs the vision backwards and puts a different Sonny and Cher song over it for a less tone deaf result: https://twitter.com/rezawrecktion/status/1788211832936861950
@whybird oh wow, that's genius! watched it and yea, it honestly totally works and brings the same message they intended to but just... in a much better way lol. I'm surprised no one at Apple watching this ad before giving it the green light had this idea
Talking of Chameleons, I am always impressed by the way Apple have managed to maintain much of their ‘outside, liberal’ image - even when they dominate mobile markets. Jobs was a shite, indifferent to others in his company, family and community. The organisation maintains that process - with a ‘friendly face’.
I do use their hardware/software but am under no illusions about the company.
My Mastodon bubble absolutely hates #Apple's ad for the #iPad Pro. And I absolutely agree – it's in very bad taste.
It is also … a weird miss?
I guess the idea and the silliness might make sense for a affordable product aimed at teenagers and students: «Hey, here is a product that simulates all that stuff at a reasonable price, so you can experiment and figure out what speaks to you.» 🧵1/2
But the iPad Pro is not a reasonably priced product. It is a product (ostensibly?) aimed at professionals. It aims to be used by people that know and cherish all those tools that are being crushed.
They will not replace those with an iPad. At most, they will use the iPad to augment them.
This ad just does not make sense in that regard. 🧵2/2 #Apple#iPad
