There really aren’t that many computer ads. Lately, they suck.<\/p>\n
Apple iPad. Not as annoying as other pad ads (maxiPads, etc)but… This ad shows a hand using the iPad to do all sorts of cool and amazing things. As with all Apple ads, it does not show the stopping, slowness, or hesitation that inevitable happens in real life. It does not show the dialog box popping up to tell you that you have to re-read a 92 page End User License Agreement document for the fifth time this week. Or the message that says “You can’t install this software because you bought the wrong hardware, chump.” No. Everything is as smooth as glass on ice. But most importantly, the ad doesn’t show the KEYBOARD. Why? Because there ISN’T ONE!!!<\/p>\n I write a lot. In fact, I kinda do it for a living. As I watch this iPad ad, my hands keep twitching because they want to see, and feel, a keyboard in front of this thing. Imma let you have your touchscreen, and that’s really cool and all, but without a keyboard you can’t write. Or, if you do, you are writing on something that is broken.<\/p>\n I would love that screen, but bigger, on my laptop. And, I’ll be happy to use an iPad as a really nifty book reader. But spreadsheets? Editing? I don’t think so.<\/p>\n Annoying Computer Ad IIa and IIb: No. The cloud is not a Microsoft thing, even though they seem to be taking credit for it in these ads. In fact, if anything, The Cloud is a Linux thing. Linux runs the cloud. The cloud is a massive amorphous distributed bunch of databases that exists mainly on reliable Linux servers around the world. If Microsoft ran the cloud, it would be raining. Or worse. Mud slides.<\/p>\n And, photo retouching software is not the cloud. It’s an app. Jeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There really aren’t that many computer ads. Lately, they suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6q2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35180,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678\/revisions\/35180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnnoying Computer Ad I:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nThe Microsoft “Cloud” ads. Some people on a trip or something and they have to talk to their computer at home, or the ad where the mother is just so exacerbated over the inability of her family to act like models when she’s taking their picture, and uses some photo retouching software to fix it. “Thank you cloud” and “Oooh, I love the cloud” and “I want to rub my body on the cloud” and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n