[mogiddy55]

Have you ever wanted to smash apart a trumpet? If so, why? Because you were feeling creative? Did you get sent to the principle afterwards?

It's eerie, since Apple's entire shtick is that third party is unneeded, it's cheap. Third party here being conveyed as "paint" and "pianos", etc. Objects which have benefited humanity more than the frickin' iPad.

[gregjor]

No, because I didn't take the video literally, or try to find some way to feel offended or upset by it. I saw it as a cartoonish metaphor, compressing a lot of creative tools into a single device. I didn't see it as representing destruction of humanity, and I seriously doubt Apple intended that interpretation.

Remember the 1984 ad for the Macintosh, where a woman threw a sledgehammer through a big screen, destroying it, and exposing the audience of slave-like people to potentially dangerous bits of glass from the explosion? Do you suppose a lot of people felt outraged by that, unable to comprehend the metaphor and references to the novel 1984? If Apple released that ad today they would probably face snowflake backlash and fake outrage.

Some may call the latest ad tone-deaf or missing the mark. But the outrage over Apple's video is just another tiresome example of fake outrage, narcissists centering themselves and playing the victim. Whether people actually can't understand metaphors or irony, or just pretend they can't so they can play at suffering harm, I don't know, but either way that behavior presents more of a threat to society than Apple's advertising.