Apple & The Postal Service: Friends

Guess what Mojo, music videos ARE commercials.
The most effeective commercials are the ones you end up humming all day.
Think about what you are saying before insulting someone else.

"The music in the Apple advert is NOT 'Such Great Heights,' or anything by the obscure group, The Postal Service."

Who are you, Steve Jobs? The Postal Service or its lead singer Ben Gibbard (also the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie) is by no means an obscure group.

iron and wine did not write write the song..... iron and wine did a cover of postal service.

The music in the Apple advert is NOT "Such Great Heights," or anything by the obscure group, The Postal Service. It is one of Moby's best songs. Lemme guess. He was in on the nefarious plot, too.

It is amazing how some folks can turn ANYTHING into into some kind of half-baked conspiracy theory.

no they arent.... but the shot they blurred out is the shot that is identical to the commercial where it zooms out from the intel chip through the imac in the apple ad. in the music video it does the same thing but zooms out from a chip inside a satellite. take a lok at both versions.

I think people weren't thinking apple-like enough. you know, mac-evangelists and stuff, it just fits so great with the title of the song "such great heights", and Intel finally getting up there.

I personally did not like the commertial, because I didn't know the music video. I found it pretty doll, intel bunnies with sentimental faces. I knew the song, though, and as I realized it was a parody of the video, it all felt to place and I needed to laugh out loud.

I still think the version of the song by Iron & Wine is A LOT better than the original...

Tyler,

What about the shots where they show the backs of the people in the video, wearing their clean-room suits with "SKYWORKS" written on their backs? Is that blurred as well?

the funniest one was jd ogrady on powerpage who stupidly kept calling it a "commercial" for the "us postal service". he even had a link and couldn't figure out it wasn't a freaking commercial, let alone for the post office. then, the text would quietly change until he finally got it right. what an ass.

the funniest one was jd ogrady on powerpage who stupidly kept calling it a "commercial" for the "us postal service". he even had a link and couldn't figure out it wasn't a freaking commercial, let alone for the post office. then, the text would quietly change until he finally got it right. what an ass.

The 'controversy' was driven by a few people posting the same really, really bad argument that Apple 'stole' its ad from the video on different Apple sites, over and over again. 'Gary' seems to be the main culprit. In my opinion, the sheer irrationality of his claims (for example, that the ad and video use the same actor, and they have the same 'wardrobe') should have gotten this silliness shot down much sooner than it was. Anyone who knows what a copyright issue is knows that an idea cannot be copyrighted. The idea, mainly the setting, is what the ad and the video have in common.