What are they on about?

[Drago]

Why does the latest tv ad for the Apple iBone try and make a big deal about their supposed security and privacy virtues? They get hacked and compromised by bad people like any other smartphone, and criminals the World over have discovered that the authorities can crack them with little difficulty.

Indeed, its Apple's own fault that they can be cracked so easily - they famously refused to cooperate with the FBI with one high profile investigation, so the Feds turned to Cellebrite (owned by the IDF) and the technical might of the Israeli military cracked it within hours. Cellebrite now make a lot of money selling the necessary equipment and software to anyone who wants it, whereas if Apple has cooperated with the Feds in the first place that would never have happened. Oh dear.

So why try and make a big deal out of an attribute that is no better than the average? "The new Ford Focus - its really, really ordinary", is unlikely to sell many units, so why does Apple think it will help them hit their targets?

 

[fossyant]

Samsung for the win !

 

[gbb]

The same as the Vauxhall adverts, British since the year blah blah....almost immediately after they'd been brought out by PSA, a french conglomerate. I generally hate adverts, I mean really hate those that are deceitful or that play on something that is a stretch to say the least.

 

[Chris S]

The same as the Vauxhall adverts, British since the year blah blah....almost immediately after they'd been brought out by PSA, a french conglomerate.

Even that was misleading. Vauxhall was taken over by the American General Motors in the 1920s.

 

[Drago]

It's like the "Should've gone to Specsavers" ads. If the poor souls eyes are as bad as they depict in the advert, then how the hell will they ever find the store? Theyll probably end up in the lawnmower shop across the street.

And that advert for Mr Kiplings where the young lad takes the cake home for his sister. Every kid I ever met would have scoffed it on the way home.

 

[classic33]

Even that was misleading. Vauxhall was taken over by the American General Motors in the 1920s.

And sold to Peugeot-Citroen, a French company.

 

[Blue Hills]

The worst are the cosy huggy feely bank adverts.
They have no link with the product whatsoever.
Is anyone daft enough to think that they say anything about the particular bank and the way it does business/deals with folk?
They may as well say, bank with ****, then show a reel of hard core porn.

 

[Moodyman]

Even that was misleading. Vauxhall was taken over by the American General Motors in the 1920s.

True, but technically they are not wrong. They advertise it as a British "brand" and in aspect they are correct. It's just a play on words to fool the punter.

 

[gbb]

True, but technically they are not wrong. They advertise it as a British "brand" and in aspect they are correct. It's just a play on words to fool the punter.

I'd have had more respect for PSA if they made a play on the fact it was a British brand they were proud to be associated with, itd still have been just words but with some recognition of the companies former heritage. Just a nod would have been enough, not some play on words that stretches the imagination somewhat.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

Years ago I saw an advert for Indian Chardonnay that made it sound worth a try. I looked out for it in the local supermarkets over a few months and never saw it on offer. Describing the advertisement to an acquaintance, he assured me the product being advertised was actually a car which had nothing to do with the wine which also appeared in the advertisement. If the advertisement winds you up or leaves you nonplussed, it probably just means you are not part of the target market for that product. Mind you, if you watch the Tour de France on ITV4, you are probably loaded up with enough funeral insurance to cover half a dozen covid-19 pandemics. More fun to enter the prize draw and enjoy fantasizing about what you would do with the £20,000 prize. If you won it, the shock would probably lead to your nearest and dearest calling in those burial policies.