Apple’s new iPads!
Yeah they effectively have an ipod touch in a whole bunch of sizes now!
Good point.
I wonder how long it will take for the current iPhone 5 “thumb” ad to become as redundant as the Steve Jobs quote.
Yeah, as soon as I saw that ad, I thought it was a bad move. Not because of the iPads, where you use two hands, but because of the potential for iPhones to increase in width in the future. Still, with all the different iPads and iPods now on the market, perhaps they never will?
It’s good to hear your opinion on it chucky being in advertising and an apple fan. It just seemed like a severely limiting campaign. We’ve all seen the rapid growth in screen size of smartphones and the increasing choice in tablets (for better or worse).
I just found it came off as a pretty smug commercial and I just couldn’t get beyond the fact that don’t we all have different sized hands/thumbs?
Steve would NEVER have allowed that ad to see the light of day!
I’m not a fan of some of the calls Apple have been making post-Steve, and there’ll be many more to come.
Let’s put it this way - while I’ll continue to use their products as I genuinely believe them to be superior (for MY needs), if I owned stock in Apple, I’d be looking for an opportunity to sell.
Interesting!
I’ve always given credit to Apple for being one of the best when it comes to marketing and design and they’ve done very well as a result.
Recently I’ve been left scratching my head at some of their decisions. They’ve also pissed a lot of people off with the change to ipod nanos recently by changing the shape killing off the blossoming “nano watch” trend
IOS is getting seriously dated but I do wonder if they have kind of painted themselves into a corner where they can’t innovate beyond “thinner, faster, lighter” anymore for fear of rocking the boat. Bring back “revolutionary” Apple!
. . . killing off the blossoming “nano watch” trend . . .
Hehe, beeseekay and I LOVE our Nano watches!
Yeah they effectively have an ipod touch in a whole bunch of sizes now!
Good point.
I wonder how long it will take for the current iPhone 5 “thumb” ad to become as redundant as the Steve Jobs quote.
Yeah, as soon as I saw that ad, I thought it was a bad move. Not because of the iPads, where you use two hands, but because of the potential for iPhones to increase in width in the future. Still, with all the different iPads and iPods now on the market, perhaps they never will?
It’s good to hear your opinion on it chucky being in advertising and an apple fan. It just seemed like a severely limiting campaign. We’ve all seen the rapid growth in screen size of smartphones and the increasing choice in tablets (for better or worse).
I just found it came off as a pretty smug commercial and I just couldn’t get beyond the fact that don’t we all have different sized hands/thumbs?
Steve would NEVER have allowed that ad to see the light of day!
I’m not a fan of some of the calls Apple have been making post-Steve, and there’ll be many more to come.
Let’s put it this way - while I’ll continue to use their products as I genuinely believe them to be superior (for MY needs), if I owned stock in Apple, I’d be looking for an opportunity to sell.
I totally agree. While I’m not the biggest fan of Apple, post Steve Apple seems to be making some pretty poor decisions and I would be selling their stocks if I could.
They still make an above average product but they could be handling it much better.