I believe these ads are just to sell the remaining stock of 5s right before the 6 pops up. Same was with the Air stickers ad. Think they actually sold more stickers than the Airs with that one though.
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I just don´t think there´s as big a market for self-important, politically-correct, fantasies about some white Americans significance in the world as some of these people who are behind these ads do."
Apple had been the best comsumer electronics and computing company in the world. Why? Because their products were more useful than anyone elses and worked better. That´s it. End of story. Show that in the ads or get out. The more they try to be inspirational the more they just look out of touch and arrogant.
This does not detract at all from my statement.
The default app is plenty reliable, but no evidence has been shown that indicates the other apps which provide the "reply with attachment" functionality, aren't just as reliable.
I don´t know. Let´s look at Apple´s sales relative to its competitors outside of where you live. What do you see?
I can tell you what we see. Everyone here thinks Apple is something like Obama somehow: in love with themselves while everything is going to hell and thinking that they are the ones who are right and everyone else is wrong. On the other hand, companies like Huawei just make good stuff and get on with it. As a consequence, Apple is losing all the favoritism they earned primarily from the iPod years. Back then everyone loved them -- they made great stuff that was fun and they were cool as a byproduct of how good the things they made were. This continued for many years after. But now suddenly in the last couple years it seems more and more like they hope we will buy their stuff because of how much they care about the poor and wretched people around the world as well as the environment. That doesn't work. Trust me.
In business you don't usually attach photos of some random drunk people that you took with your iPhone. You usually send word, pages and pdf documents. Most time you have to attach more than one file.....so you open email, attach word document, and then attach pdf to the same email....etc.
You can do that without 3rd party apps and going around in circles?
It is sad u have to use 3rd party apps for something as basic and important as attaching attachments in email. That is one of the reason i don't even have email set on my iPad....because is useless for that.
If hitting the "attach" button in a non-built-in app equates to "going around in circles" for you:
Then you'll have to lump in nearly every corporate e-mail deployment on desktops/laptops, because almost none of them use built-in e-mail clients.
Ads don't always motivate you to buy a product. Often times ads work to establish an image/brand, something that is very important for Apple.
That's because you haven't found a life changing use case for it yet. The iPhone changed the way my wife (a teacher) keeps track of everything easily and enjoying her life. Being high tech without the high tech headache.
People take everything for granted. I remember 2007 when Steve swiped the screen with his finger and it SCROLLED and the audience when like WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, TOUCHSCREEN, SCROLLING WITH YOUR FINGER AND IT GOES ON AND ON? WOOOOOOOW. Now if the phone takes more than 3 seconds to google something it's "bullcrap, i hate this phone, it sucks, everything sucks".
It's not that I'm worried about. iOS doesn't give third-party apps any way of being default. Siri can only send and read off Mail messages, sharing functions all use Mail, and iOS will only sync only your Mail accounts with your other devices (most important to me).
Mail might also be more reliable since third-party apps have strict rules on when they can be running. I don't see how a third-party mail app can fetch emails every 15 minutes, for example. AFAIK, they can only resume activity in the background by receiving a push notification.
You honestly think that is acceptable? It's not extra steps, it is a PITA workaround for a rudimentary business task. If that was the way it worked on any other OS, it would be universally panned on this website.
Both require third party apps and services (ie dropbox) to act as a "file storage" rather than accessing a common documents folder on the device itself, presenting it's own problems.
Wow, I'm surprised by all the negativity surrounding this. Considering that Apple is partnering with IBM, is there really any surprise that they're going to focus on business uses? Plus, people are impressed when they see that the smartphone that they use can be used in professional capacities.
It's August, the iPhone 5S has been out for a year. Specs aren't particularly exciting or interesting to a lot of users out there and there's a lot of awareness of the iPhone already. I'm not surprised that Apple isn't focusing on specs and is instead focusing on what you can do with the phone. Just because it's focused on business more so than Facebook or whatever doesn't make it a bad ad. I mean, even the most basic of smartphones can access Facebook and Twitter...
It's August, the iPhone 5S has been out for a year. Specs aren't particularly exciting or interesting to a lot of users out there and there's a lot of awareness of the iPhone already. I'm not surprised that Apple isn't focusing on specs and is instead focusing on what you can do with the phone. Just because it's focused on business more so than Facebook or whatever doesn't make it a bad ad. I mean, even the most basic of smartphones can access Facebook and Twitter...
We'll change the world for the better with iPhone in hand
Come on young idealistic people rise up and take a stand
The earth has been waiting for thousands of years
for the iPhone to heal us and dry away our tears.
it won't be much longer till we triumph over hate
Well just use the right apps and open the gate
to love and to peace and to glory for all
we all will march forward and never shall fall
Oh iPhone sweet iPhone I swear we'll prevail
Oh iPhone sweet iPhone how could we fail
Come on everybody sing it!!!
Boring... Boring... Boring...
Almost as boring as my stupid poem that took 90 seconds to write.
Come on young idealistic people rise up and take a stand
The earth has been waiting for thousands of years
for the iPhone to heal us and dry away our tears.
it won't be much longer till we triumph over hate
Well just use the right apps and open the gate
to love and to peace and to glory for all
we all will march forward and never shall fall
Oh iPhone sweet iPhone I swear we'll prevail
Oh iPhone sweet iPhone how could we fail
Come on everybody sing it!!!
Boring... Boring... Boring...
Almost as boring as my stupid poem that took 90 seconds to write.
I suppose if they're gullible enough to think professional jewelers have replaced their jewelers lenses with iPhones, they'd be impressed.
If Apple's goal was to bore people to sleep and subconsciously processes the subliminal messages in the ad, then they've almost got it. It just needs to be a little longer.
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Do you live in Portofino or something? In Italy overall, Android is absolutely killing iOS now. I guess you think Apple should continue to focus on celebrity charity auctions, solar power plants, and finding ways to make telephones out of more expensive materials. My opinion is that Apple would be better off finding ways of making phones that Italians would buy in hordes and making ads that show them why.
Using 3rd party apps for email you lose a lot of native functionalities (some poster already explained them in this topic). It just seems unbelievable that Apple don't want to include attach-files (other than just picture and movie) to native email app.