[FireBeyond]

You know "Sequences and screen images simulated"?

Know why that is on most cell phone ads?

Because other manufacturers complained of deceptive practices in advertising when Apple would talk of how easy (and quick) it was to do something on the iPhone compared to other phones...

[shinratdr]

Actually that message was present long before Apple was popular. Digital images are always super-imposed onto devices after filming because the camera picks up the actual device screen as somewhat washed out.

I do love the anti-Apple explanation you have concocted from thin air though. Plausible enough that some might buy it. However most on HN won't buy it because they aren't 12.

[FireBeyond]

One apology: "Sequences shortened".

And, no - the 3GS was targeted for a class action:

http://www.wireless-weblog.com/50226711/the_iphone_3g_class_...

"Twice as fast at half the price"

The venerable 37S acknowledged that, as a result, the 3GS ads started including that phrase.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1328-apple-iphone-ad-sequence...

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/30/siri-la-suit-fake-ad...

But nice pro-Apple shilling to make me sound like the bad guy.

-- signed, an iPhone 4, 4S, iPad 3, 2G nano, 160GB classic iPod owner.

[shinratdr]

> One apology: "Sequences shortened".

Sorry, you're altering to your entire point from start to finish with this 'minor' correction? Had you actually said "Sequences shortened" I wouldn't have replied. However you didn't. You said: "Sequences and screen images simulated" a different phrase that appears in ALL commercials that show a screen on camera.

> But nice pro-Apple shilling to make me sound like the bad guy.

Two ways to look at this:

1. Either you intentionally lied, so you're just a prick trying in vain to save some face.

2. It was a genuine mistake, in which case bravo on this humble concession.

[FireBeyond]

"Sorry, you're altering to your entire point from start to finish with this 'minor' correction?"

Granted, I can see your point, definitely.

The next sentence in my original post, though, referred directly to my intent: complaints that the ad deceived as to how "easy (and quick) it was to do something on the iPhone" versus reality.