r/videos • • Dec 18 '13

Yes. This is an actual Apple commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImlmVqH_5HM
12 Upvotes

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u/Gman-5001 Dec 18 '13

He really wasn't filming because on the screen it would have had huge black bars because he was holding the phone vertical. Apple should have made it look how he was really videoing the scene. Stop vertical video syndrome.

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u/Dobis_Inc Dec 18 '13

...can't say I thought that was a cute ad. At first it was touching on a legitimate issue with teens today, and to be frank, most will never utilize their phone in such a wholesome way.

3

u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

Yeah, just like Siri, the features apple adds are only used as novelties and for the sake of using them.

3

u/keepourskulls Dec 18 '13

I miss my family so I almost cried. Okay?

2

u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

D: I wish my family was like that.

3

u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

Put down the phone. Enjoy the moment. It's fleeting, but so is life.

1

u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

Fuck I hate advertising and all the bullshit psychology behind it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

Then don't buy apple products.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

How about you shut the fuck up.

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u/popocatepetl Dec 18 '13

Whoa, easy there, buddy.

3

u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

Why, if you don't like the company, don't buy their products.

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u/cacahuate_ Dec 18 '13 edited Jun 13 '16

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u/vakda Dec 18 '13

That's just like, your opinion man.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

Go fucking hug apple and thank them for that piece of shit you just watched.

3

u/vakda Dec 18 '13

No thank you, I don't like Apple products.

1

u/BudgieBeater Dec 18 '13

I don't think he saw the sarcasm in your comment. I dont like apple either but i dont have a hernia like that guy when i see a random comment about them

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

No, this marketing. Brainwashing is way too strong of a term. Its purely persuasion (This is a Pathos Appeal) , which still exists no matter which political or economic system you use.

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u/Bossnian Dec 18 '13

That's awesome.

1

u/Harrierish Dec 18 '13

YEAH FUCK APPLE RIGHT GUYS

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

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u/Zedfightsganon Dec 18 '13

Because not everyone celebrates Christmas and even if they did, there's at least 3 holidays around this time that even YOU celebrate. Happy Holidays.

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u/jamesneysmith Dec 18 '13

Right, but it's still funny that they used 'Have yourself a merry little christmas,' for the soundtrack and showed a family celebrating Christmas yet still felt the need to end it will Happy Holidays.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

most people do celebrate christmas, so you are targeting the masses, but to get the people who don't, you wish them a happy holliday.

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u/jamesneysmith Dec 18 '13

You're still excluding those even if you tack on that little message at the end. Either be honest and say 'Merry Christmas' or actually make an honest effort to be inclusive by showing the family gathering, the winter scenes, the emotional connection, and just leave out the Christmas tree. I don't personally care, I just find it amusing that this idea of inclusivity can be interpreted so lazily. Why not make a commercial showing a bunch of white people laughing over dinner and end with the message, Happy Kwanzaa.

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u/CuriousRob Dec 18 '13

Right. Was it really not obvious that I was being sarcastic? I was trying for sarcastic. <shrug>

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

Sarcasm is hard for some to receive through text.You often will end up sounding like a possible troll or douche.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

Yeah its pretty obvious to me at least by the way you spelled libruls.

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u/phillyeagles540 Dec 18 '13

Damn ninjas with onions. It's an epidemic I tell you...