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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 09:06 PM
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Comedian Ellen DeGeneres apologizes for iPhone commercial parody. Says she love their products.
In the video, which mimics the style of Apple's instantly recognizable iPhone TV commercials, DeGeneres stumbles through a number of features on the handset, coming up only with failure. In an attempt to text, she pulls up the maps application. The parody shows the comedian trying to text again and mistakenly sending a message, before asking, "Can you help me with this?"

The next day on her show, DeGeneres showed the commercial again, and followed it up by praising a number of Apple products, including the iPhone, iPod and iPad. She then gave a tongue-in-cheek apology to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and "Mr. Macintosh."

"They thought I made it look like it's hard to use, and I just want to say that I'm sorry if I made it like the iPhone is hard to use. It's not hard to use. I have an iPhone... I just learned how to text on an iPhone, it's the only phone that I can text on, and I love it."

"I love my iPad, I love my iPod," she said to applause from the audience. "I love IHOP, if you have anything to do with that."

See the funny video:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/04/comedian_ellen_degeneres_apologizes_for_iphone_commercial_parody.html

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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 09:17 PM
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1. God forbid if you piss off the holy Steve Jobs!
:eyes:
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 10:56 PM
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4. Yeah I agree, I'm getting tired of Apple's shenanigans.
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 09:18 PM
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2. Apple used to be 'beleaguered' by comics and pundits.
Edited on Tue May-04-10 09:20 PM by Twillig
Better watch what you say now.

"Under the spreading chestnut Apple® tree. I sold you and you sold me."





I love my iPod Touch.

And my older ipod.

And my old G4!


(of course I do have a much newer PC, but for all the speed it still fucks up over unfathomable shit. The older kludged upgraded G4 doesn't. So honestly, I prefer Big Apple.)




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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 09:54 PM
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3. So they got to her? (nt)
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 12:20 PM
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5. The Ipod people strike again.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 02:50 PM
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6. Here's a dime, Apple. Go buy yourself a sense of humor
Going after comedians? Shame on you, Apple.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20004186-37.html">Ellen: Mock iPhone ad prompts Apple scolding
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 02:57 PM
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7. and yet they let the SNL skit
of the Ipad go????

ugh

lost
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 05:52 PM
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8. Oooh, don't offend the FanBoys and the Uberjobs!
Seriously, Apple's act got old a long time ago.
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