Droid ad calls iPhone “tiara-wearing, digitally-clueless beauty pageant queen”
This fight has been shaping up for a while – the competitors scrambling for market share and “cool factor” have been growing ever more frustrated at the Apple juggernaut. The App Store has pretty much sucked all the oxygen out of the room for the last year, and the imminent arrival of the Apple tablet promises to induce the fanbois into paroxysms of Mac-turbatory delight. Well, it will whenever it becomes something more than the vaporware it’s been for the last two? three? dozen? years.
Anyway, Apple has played pretty bare-knuckles with PCs in the famous “I’m a Mac…” ads, so they can’t really whine too much when Droid returns the favor. Check out the 30-second spot below.
Wow. I didn’t know that my phone would allow me to punch through solid cinderblock walls and crush lesser phones in giant industrial hydraulic crushing machines. I guess they’re going after the Beavis&Butthead audience, now that we’re all growed up & spending coin on digital fetish objects that allow us to have a little swagger in our step.
I mean, check out the claims about Droid: “like a racehorse duct-taped to a Scud missile,” and “rips through the web like a circular saw through a banana.” GRRaaaAAAHHH! (*pounds chest*)
Reminds me of some other ads that played off this kind of over-the-top claims:
Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator
