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Some stockings are luckier than others, Apple tells us. They've released a new Busby Berkeley-style Radio City Music Hall-inspired Holiday advertisement that showcases their line of Christmas-worthy gifts. Don't know about you, but I rather like it. Dancing iPods. Dancing laptops. Dancing LCD displays. No more "Silent Nights" once you get an iPod, indeed.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Bunker said 12:48PM on 12-15-2006
HAHAHAHA, that's funny. I like.
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Huy said 12:57PM on 12-15-2006
Theme from Love Actually, beautiful.
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Will K said 1:04PM on 12-15-2006
Why no Mac Pro? (lol)
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christine said 1:22PM on 12-15-2006
I LOVE IT!
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Peter Witham said 1:29PM on 12-15-2006
Another very clever advertising idea, you have to give credit to Apple for their marketing pitches.
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cristian said 1:31PM on 12-15-2006
the ad is great
the music sux xD
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Richard said 1:33PM on 12-15-2006
I don't think this is an advert, this is displayed in their Apple Stores as a screensaver.
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Si said 1:43PM on 12-15-2006
Score another one for the Apple advertising machine. Very clever, entertaining and with a smidgen of humour thrown in. Excellent. Sony, take note.
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anon said 1:46PM on 12-15-2006
By your logic, if they displayed "I'm a Mac" ads as a screensaver they would no longer be advertisements. Of course not, so why wouldn't this Mac and iPod promotional ad be one as well.
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Shreedhan said 1:47PM on 12-15-2006
Why no MacPros? or Cinema Displays? or their other very high-end, expensive products that you'd need to be incredibly rich to afford as simple presents? Oh wait, the reason I just said lol. I wasn't too fond of the ad at first but the shuffles clipping on to the red ribbon made me chuckle. Not a bad ad.
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Andrew leitch said 1:48PM on 12-15-2006
it looks very similar to the 2005 promo video available on MacTV
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Wheels said 2:07PM on 12-15-2006
Mac Pros aren't targeted towards the average home consumer. With that being said, where are the Mac minis?
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Thayne Miller said 2:21PM on 12-15-2006
yeah I really wanted to see some mac minis in there. Those are just awesome stocking stuffers!
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its_santa_claus said 2:31PM on 12-15-2006
who has actually seen this as a commercial on broadcast TV? looks more like the screen saver at your local retail store set to a musical background. also the last frame does not reference a url which almost every real commercial does.
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Shunnabunich said 2:39PM on 12-15-2006
Mac Pro isn't included because the iPods, iMacs and MacBooks are obviously skating on ice, and you would only see the Mac Pro for an instant as it flashed past the screen and dropped straight through.
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niclet said 2:58PM on 12-15-2006
Yes, well the music is really bad :(
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iMatt said 3:07PM on 12-15-2006
I'll bet it took about 20 minutes to create with Leopard's new Core Animation!
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Billy Bob Morton said 3:15PM on 12-15-2006
When is Apple going to dump the iMac and make something worth buying? I want a Mac mini or Mac Cube with a 3.5" hard drive and real video card dancing on ice thank you.
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mike said 4:31PM on 12-15-2006
BRILLIANT!!
"a gift they'll open every day"
haha
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laanba said 5:02PM on 12-15-2006
I love it too. I wish Apple would do something like this for television. It's refreshing to see something beside the iPods in an Apple commercial. I think combining the computers and iPods, as in this spot, would be a great advertisement.
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