[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.