iPhone 4s "Rock God" & "Road Trip" ads

GAWD I hate these two.

Why does he even bother going to all the trouble of learning to play the real thing?  I'm sure his precious iPhone could just download an app that automatically plays guitar just by "strumming" the phone's screen like the sh*tbags from that old Geico commercial had (you know, the "crack open the bubbly" one).

Codtaro wrote: Jimbo, the sad thing is that most kids ARE this way, regardless of whether or not they use google or their precious iPhone mommy and daddy pay for. Learning guitar is quite a lazy sport these days, and the only real challenge seems to be callouses, and building up speed.

Zach6848 wrote: This ad just drives the point home. The smarmy douchebaggery that seems to come standard with smart phone ownership.

 

Everything about both of those ads makes my skin crawl.

Most of you are talking about the guitar kid ad, but I think the road trip one is far worse.

Directions to California... Yeah, my $70 Android phone will do that. Then it will give me turn by turn gps, for free. Does the iPhone do that yet? Or maybe the phone could remind them that they (probably) have jobs that won't appreciate their snap-decision vacation.
The middle of the ad is more mundane tasks that nearly any phone can do. "find a gas station I can walk to"?? I guess Siri wasn't able to answer "what is this gauge on my dashboard that now has a little orange light by the E?".
Or how about when she asks about rodeos in Amarillo... Which is nowhere near the route it showed earlier?
Then at the end of the ad... The newly unemployed couple admiring a warm sunset... And she kills the moment by once again talking to the damn phone! To ask it to "remind me to do this again"!! You seriously won't remember the trip on your own?? How the hell is the phone going to remind you, it won't even know what "this" is, or when to remind you of it.

Who the hell is this ad targeted to? 16 year olds? Last time I checked they don't have enough money to buy an iPhone with their Chuck E Cheese earnings. CALL ME RAWK GOD INANIMATE PHONE! I also hate how we only see the bottom half of this kid's face. Was the top half totally f**ked up or something? Derp eyes? Also can we please stop the stereotype that 16 year olds have garage bands? This isn't the 90s, and I grew up in the 90s. No one had garage bands. Last, I call BS on the kid asking for a B minor 9th. No one who learns guitars, especially a 16 year old, would do that. He would do what any other kid does, look up tabs and go for it.

As much as I hate the garage band kid, I really hate the road trip couple more. Could you find a bigger pair of smarmy douches to promote your product Apple? Oh Hai I know, lets just take off our non existent jobs and waste money on an "ironic" road trip across the US! IS THERE A RODEO IN AMARILLO TONIGHT? BECAUSE WE'RE IN TEXAS AND THAT'S TOTALLY WHAT TEXANS DO RITE? OMG THEY'RE SO SILLY AND BACKWARDS THERE. LOOK AT ME I'M A WHITE SUBURBANITE THAT'S NEVER LEFT HOME!

I also really cannot stand this misconception that seems to be spreading that you can't get things done without a smart-phone, you NEED one to be compatible with the modern world.

I have NEVER owned a smart-phone. NEVER have, and if I can help it, I never will. I still get things done. You know why? Because I don't need an overpriced device to arrange my schedule and organize all of my work. I don't need to ask my phone to look up directions for me. I don't need to watch YouTube videos and check Facebook at work. I don't need to play Angry Birds at work, either. I don't need to check my phone for Facebook updates and e-mails during conversations or social gatherings.

I don't need any of that sh*t because, guess what? That's what your brain is for. But these people would rather let these overpriced devices do all of their thinking and organizing for them. So what happens when your phone doesn't work? You'll be a braindead husk, incapable of doing business or getting things done without it. It's called self-reliance. Soon enough, self-reliance will be a dead thing. It will go the way of face-to-face communication and die a terrible death.

I have a 20 dollar Samsung phone from Wal-Mart. It texts, it calls, it takes pictures. That's all I really need it to do. I don't want to become a braindead phone-dependent moron like the majority.

Apple will never get any of my money due to the smarmy tech-reliant douchebaggery that they so flamboyantly promote. It's becoming so ridiculously prevalent in our culture. It's disgusting.

I for one, will stand up and say, NO, I am NOT a tech-reliant zombie hipster douchebag. I still do things on my own.

If this kid really was a "Rock God," he could at least write his own music.

Triple J wrote: If this kid really was a "Rock God," he could at least write his own music.

 

So the kid tells his phone to call him "Rock God"---and it agrees.  I hope he's not overly flattered.

^^^^^ Someone probably tried that with 3D glasses.

This smacks of telling a garage band nerd that he can be an alpha male guitarist, while she'll be his female groupie slave who would get on her knees and worship him with a blow job if she could get out of the phone.