Many people, including me, have been frustrated about Apple’s stance toward 3rd party applications. iPhone protesters have used one of Apple’s ads against them.
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Jeff Wang | September 30th, 2007 | 19 Comments
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Here’s to the Crazy Ones…
I love this remix of Apple’s “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” ad over a scrolling display of third-party iPhone apps: (Found here, which also has the original ad.) Apple has previously hinted that they went after Hymn and similar iTunes-hacking……
iPhone hackers mix their own “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” ad…
Apple’s old “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” ad celebrates mavericks who broke the rules and challenged old institutions. iPhone hackers, frustrated by Apple’s prohibition on third-party iPhone apps (and Apple’s attack on unlocked phones in the form o…
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I’m glad I named my app with a number (15), I showed up first on teh list
Great remix.
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It’s always sad to see a company turn away from the things that made it popular to begin with — whether it’s Apple, champion of the renegades, turning into just another corportate regime or Boing Boing, champion of free speech, silencing its own readers, success always seems to bring out the worst in people.
Thanks for this link, the ad is brilliant. It also brought me to some of your other posts, which I think are interesting. What type of entrepreneur or business are you looking at starting? As an advertising industry student I find this kind of stuff fascinating. Hit me up with some info man!
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Perfect. Speaking truth to profits.
weaksauce. They could have done so much more than scroll a list of apps — which I didn’t even get until I read the comments. At first, I though it was list of usernames/avatars on a forum. They might as well have shown me frying an egg; it would have made as much sense.
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