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Didn't Futurama do a parody of this commercial? It was in the episode where the guy from the 80s takes over Planet Express. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.68.92 (talk) 19:07, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Controversial Slant?

Shouldn't there be at least a brief mention of the potential hypocrisy displayed by Apple in portraying themselves as the anti-establishment hero? Without trying to sound either anti-Apple or pro-PC, the fact is that the Macintosh platform has always been much more tightly controlled than the PC (or in that age, 100% IBM-compatible). There are certainly benefits to a closed and proprietary system, but the point of this commercial seems to be that Apple is decrying the PC world as something that it's not while at the same time proclaiming that it is also something that it's not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.134.139.70 (talk) 11:10, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The hypocrisy is real, particularly since the new iPad incorporates the same type of Digital Restrictions Management technology that recently got Amazon Kindle in trouble for remotely removing Orwell's 1984 from user's machines in a very 1984-like fashion. Today, DefecitveByDesign mailed a giant iPad replica displaying a picture that parodies this commercial to Steve Jobs bearing the first 5,000 signatures to the petition to turn the iPad back into a general purpose computer and prevent this kind of centralization of control. --Nerd42 (talk) 20:20, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The commercial ran on Friday, January 20, 1984.

This commercial ran on Friday night, January 20, on WCBS-TV New York during Dallas between 10P-11P EST. We had a VCR that was recording the show for my mother, but I was watching real time.

I was so taken by the commercial that I showed it to my parents the next day and again to some friends on Sunday who came to watch the Super Bowl.

Is there anyway that this can be verified? I no longer have the tape. —Preceding unsigned comment added by StrongBadiaForever (talk • contribs) 13:30, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is a COMMERCIAL, not a movie

Isn't it a bit much to put the director, editor, writer, etc. in this article? I mean, it's just a stupid TV commercial. Not only that, there's a friggin Plot section. Plot??!!?? Commercials do not have plots!! They advertise something, and gullible people buy it (only to realize 2 days later that it breaks easily, so you have to call the company but accidentally dial a phone sex number and then the phone bill comes in and your wife bitches at you for calling a phone sex hotline and leaves you and doesn't bother to make you a sammich on the way out).

Needs an "Irony" section

Apple's macos can only be legally run on Apple's hardware. And Apple sells music that's DRM'd. Apple's Iphones need to be jailbroken in order to do what the user wants with them and Apple's Ipad is totally locked up as well. It's total control, all the way. Looks like Steve Jobs is Big Brother.

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 Isn't it a bit much to put the director, editor, writer, etc. in this article? I mean, it's just a stupid TV commercial. Not only that, there's a friggin Plot section. Plot??!!?? Commercials do not have plots!! They advertise something, and gullible people buy it (only to realize 2 days later that it breaks easily, so you have to call the company but accidentally dial a phone sex number and then the phone bill comes in and your wife bitches at you for calling a phone sex hotline and leaves you and doesn't bother to make you a sammich on the way out).
+== Needs an "Irony" section ==
+Apple's macos can only be legally run on Apple's hardware. And Apple sells music that's DRM'd. Apple's Iphones need to be jailbroken in order to do what the user wants with them and Apple's Ipad is totally locked up as well. It's total control, all the way. Looks like Steve Jobs ''is'' Big Brother.