Apple Hated Ellen’s iPhone Joke [Satire]

As an iphone user I fully call out the commercials where the guy is on the phone, says “yeah, let’s go eat”, fires up an app and finds a sushi restaurant in Cupertino, then clicks a button to make reservations, all whilst on a phonecall. It takes at least 5 seconds for an app to come to fruition, let alone have any data from Safari load — I’d have someone on hold for at least four minutes to accomplish the shit the guy in the commercial does in 10 seconds.. squee.

lobstr

@Good Girl Gone Bad: Mine is first generation. I’ve had it since the beginning. Love it. I just upgrade the software every so often and I’m good to go!

mfnher

@no_context: Ellen can be funny; her show is painfully unfunny.

7 of pi

According to Ed Henry, Mrs. Obama had no idea how to use an iPhone when she was making her first tweet the other night.

It’s a common joke amongst people with iPhones (or any smartphone, really) that you can toss it to someone who doesn’t have one and watch them fumble with it like that man-ape with the bone at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Airvault

Isn’t this blatant satire? You know…protected under the free speech clause? I hate it when people apologize for blatant free speech. I also don’t care for satirical apologies unless they also satire the invasion of rights by the evil lawyers.

FrankenPC

@jmckee: The joke is that Ellen is techno-retarded, not that the iPhone is hard to use. Either way, Apple looks like a baby for crying about it.

no_context

@The Gays Have It: Her ad was just a twist on the “Old people with new technology”. In it, she’s advertising an iPhone and does things like saying”It’s easy to send messages”, but then clicks on a mapping application and says “Oh, wait, that’s not what I was… Umm, how do I do this again…” But Apple was upset because they said she “implied the iPhone was hard to use.”

CrustyCanuck

@joefuntime: Because if one speaks too much truth to power, one loses access.

7 of pi

How do you expect a company to react when someone uses their popular national platform to make one of their most popular and profitable products that has a reputation of being easy to use seem incredibly difficult to use.

Yes it is a joke and it would be nice if they could have a sense of humor about it but it is a joke that potentially harms their reputation and their bottom line and they have a responsibly to their shareholders to minimize attacks on either.

jmckee

@seattlesue: Yes. Why have power and never employ it, even in small, useful doses?

joefuntime

Link to video:
[ellen.warnerbros.com]

Apple, you suck.

Barrabás

Bajillionaires are so touchy!

HiredGoons

Not funny, takes himself too seriously, not very smart….man it’s always perfect that the Justin Long character is Apple and Hodgman is the PC. That a person would prefer to be Justin Long to being John Hodgman says it all about Apple’s target market.

The Curse of Millhaven

Remember when meat got mad at Oprah for talking about vegetarianism? Oh, the good times.

Someday they’ll figure out a way where corporate interests won’t have to go to the unnecessary and annoying lengths of lodging public complaints in order to reshape the opinions of high-profile individuals. Maybe they can install a chip where they can just, like, ZAP talk-show hosts to keep them from having ideas that run counter to said corporation’s marketing directive.

Colonel Mustard

Apple = thinnest skinned entity evah.

GordonGartrelle

Also, the video is dead. Pretend I emailed you about it.

no_context

Total pussy move. At least she’s consistent.

no_context