I’m not sure how I feel about that new iPhone commercial. It’s kind of dark. You know the one I mean? Where there’s jangly guitar music, and they show a guy looking up ‘sushi’ on his iPhone, and it shows him a map to the closest sushi restaurant, and then he pauses, cancels the sushi map and types in ‘bridge’, and the iPhone shows him a map to the nearest bridge? And then the next shot is the guy standing on the bridge, and then he’s shown updating his facebook status to ‘single’ on his iPhone. And then he goes to Twitter and posts the update ‘I am on a bridge’. And then he puts the iPhone in his pocket and jumps off the bridge? And then the Apple logo comes up? I’m not sure how I feel about that ad.
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Anne
I haven’t seen it, but I don’t like it. I think it’s an over-exaggeration (I hope) of isolation brought on by an over-reliance on technology and social networking. I like Twitter and Facebook and Tumblog and all that, but if I want to talk, I’m still going to seek out a real person.
Laura
what did you think about the shaking baby app?
mollyschoemann
Honestly, I thought it was a decent teaching-tool. Apparently plenty of people didn’t know that shaking a baby was that bad. Now they do! Also, the whole public outcry was kind of weird to me. How come in videogames like Grand Theft Auto you can beat a virtul hooker and mug a virtual tourist, but you can’t shake a damn virtual baby? That seems unfair to me.
Laura
“Want to know how long you can shake a baby before it dies? Yeah, there’s an app for that.”
mollyschoemann
Wish I had thought of that!
britt
wait, is that a real ad?? no way. I call shmatire.
mollyschoemann
Britt! You sunk my battleship!
Anne
Well, crap. I’m gullible. We all knew that.
mollyschoemann
You’re not gullible! You just don’t think I’m a big liar, like Britt does.
leanne
This scenario would be even more entertaining if, instead of being motivated by his relationship failing, the protagonist began the commercial playing the shaking baby ap, heaved a big sigh, and tweeted, “It actually only takes 43 seconds in real life,” and then headed for the bridge.