Bad Apple: You’re a Fool if You Believe the iPhone Ads

[hollow0]

With respect to 3G speeds in the ads, its no different than claims made by ISPs about their speeds. ISPs post actual bandwidth claims that never seem to be reached. A lawsuit against certain ISPs has more validity than the one against Apple on this one.

AMEN TO THAT!!! THAT IS SOOOOOOO TRUE! Apple should use that as an example in their case!

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

And having a symptomatic 4 hour hard-on doesn't sound like a real problem either.......

Unless you're the kids I read about who took Viagra in school...

[keatonec]

honestly if the commercial showed that I'd wasn't supper fast. That it took 3-5 secs to load a web page or a location the map app would you buy it? No. This is stupid. I can't even beleive that we are talking about this. It's ridiculos. There are comercials all over tv that make their products look way better than they actually are. It's a funny thing called good advertising. You don't want to make an ad that just shows what your product can do, you show what it could do if you had the perfect connection and verything was working great.

This guy who is sueing is a retard and I hope he doesn't get sh*t.

[khaoticsquirrel]

misleading is the name of the game in marketing. whoever can fool the most people into buying their product over their opponents are "the best." i'm pretty sure if apple knows that their ads are ******** and they are intentionally airing them to entice/trick people to buy their product, that is false advertisement and very suable.

[jayson9]

Unless you're the kids I read about who took Viagra in school...

I guess everybody wants to be a porn star.... kids included.

Sometimes, you can't help the one that will try anything to be like others. You just got to go along and hope they don't "over extend" themselves.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I guess everybody wants to be a porn star.... kids included.

Sometimes, you can't help the one that will try anything to be like others. You just got to go along and hope they don't "over extend" themselves.

And hope the teacher doesn't call you up to the blackboard to work out a problem...

[kwall]

This is like trying to sue a fast food shop for not serving you a meal that looks like the ones from commercials. You know the ones I'm talking about, the ones with oh so delicious perfectly cooked meat, perfect melted slices of cheeze, the right amount of fresh tomatoes and lettuce and just enough mayonnaise to finish it up. Actual meals NEVER look like that. Do I care? No.

The phone still rocks, and as a previous 2G user, the 3G is faster, louder, and better.

Stupid.

Come to think of it, I can't think of a single commercial where the device/product in question ever plays exactly as it's shown.

movie commercials!! they show the movie and its exact rofl

[sziklassy]

good luck to anyone trying to fight apple on this one. some woman already did this....EPIC FAIL

This sort of attitude is what gives Apple their power... we allow them to be untouchable...

Is it a little ridiculous that people are suing for this reason? Sure... I mean who REALLY believed it word for word. That being said, companies are responsible for DELIVERING what they advertise. If they don;t deliver, they are at fault...

honestly if the commercial showed that I'd wasn't supper fast. That it took 3-5 secs to load a web page or a location the map app would you buy it? No. This is stupid. I can't even beleive that we are talking about this. It's ridiculos. There are comercials all over tv that make their products look way better than they actually are. It's a funny thing called good advertising. You don't want to make an ad that just shows what your product can do, you show what it could do if you had the perfect connection and verything was working great.

This guy who is sueing is a retard and I hope he doesn't get sh*t.

So you are saying you wouldn't buy the phone if they showed it in a commercial operating in a real setting? You buy things based on commercials knowing that what you get is less than what is on the commercial but as long as the commercial is awesome the product is worth getting? I shed a tear for you just now...

[dsg]

AHHH

Apple are becoming micro$oft

[McQuackers]

Wow....did people REALLY expect the iPhone 3G to be literally twice as fast? Would they have made such a fuss if it turned out to be only 1.9x as fast?

Which ad is more appealing to you?
Twice as fast. Half the price.
or
Really fast. Half the Price.

The synergy between the Twice/Half (multiples of 2...if you count 1/2 as a multiple of 2, but you see where I'm going sticklers.) makes the ad flow more smoothly.

I'd call Apple underhanded if 3G speed was only 1.1-1.3x faster than the Edge network speed, but 1.5x and up is forgivable.

Now this part is just personal preference, but a better slogan may have been
"50% faster. 50% cheaper." or maybe another word that doesn't carry the stigma of cheap.