Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner waves to journalists after his assembly with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024.
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Apple took on Thursday the weird step of apologizing for a brief promoting video selling the corporate’s new iPad Professional pill.
Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner posted the spot on X, previously Twitter, on Tuesday. Apple additionally posted it to YouTube. It confirmed a wide range of artistic instruments, together with a guitar, piano, and metronome being pressed by a hydraulic crusher — like current viral TikTok movies — till all of the objects have been compressed into the corporate’s new pill.
The spot provoked derision, together with in depth media protection, as viewers stated that it made Apple look out of contact, and lots of posted that the destruction of the artistic instruments offended them.
Some Apple critics claimed that the unfavorable response to the advert, as an alternative of spreading Apple’s advertising and marketing message at no cost, was an indication the corporate was operating out of goodwill amongst prospects. Apple is a serious advertiser and has traditionally been intently linked with TBWAMedia Arts Lab, its longtime advert company, though it additionally does some promoting improvement internally.
Apple backtracked on Thursday.
“Our aim is to at all times have a good time the myriad of how customers specific themselves and convey their concepts to life by way of iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry,” Apple advertising and marketing VP Tor Myhren informed Advert Age, an promoting commerce publication.
It is not the primary Apple iPad advert in recent times to harass some prospects. In 2018, some folks stated they have been aggravated by an iPad Professional spot by which a toddler asks, “What’s a pc?”
