Apple airs modified Intel ad in UK

And Sutherland is a Canuck, not a yank.

In UK and in South Africa it's "censored".
In Australia it's the original as US version.
In Germany/Austria, France, Japan there is a local version... but I don't know these languages.
In Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Scandinavia and Spain NO English or American ads and NO localized versions.

...more info (in Italian) here: http://tinyurl.com/zz6ge

Kiefer Sutherland was born in London incidentally where he lived for 8 years before moving to Canada where his father is from.

There is a definate tone of sarcasm in the 'dutifully doing all the things PC's were built to do.' line. I reckon it subtely achives as much if not more than directly attacking PC users.

I actually like the ending of this commercial.... "all the things that Macs... were built to do."

I think they were Adverting Standards Authority (ASA) coming down upon them, thus the edit.

From...

http://www.cap.org.uk/cap/codes/broadcast_codes/tv_code/Section+5+-+Misleading+Advertising.htm

5.4.3 Denigration

Advertisements must not discredit or unfairly attack other products or services, advertisers or advertisements either directly or by implication

In 2003 Apple had to withdraw the UK TV advertisment for the G5 because it said "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer" which was deemed to have breached section 5.2.1 of the advertising regulations.

Accent recognition tip: We say dutifully not dootyflee ;-)

Thats so crap! I saw it on ITV the other night and I thought it was then! They have changed the entire thing look http://www.apple.com/intel/ads/

That voiceover is Kiefer Sutherland!

Ricky: That wasn't a British accent, It wasn't English, N.Irish, Scottish or welsh.
It was yank.