"You gonna be a dad..." [WARNING: APPLE NERD RAGE THREAD.]

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TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
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It better be good quality since you can only use Facetime over Wifi. Guess the iPhone can't handle it but certain other phones can handle video-chat over cell networks just fine.

AT&T network can't handle it. :p

Well the front facing camera probably sucks, but in the video they make it look like... serious production quality man.
 

mizzou

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AT&T network can't handle it. :p

Well the front facing camera probably sucks, but in the video they make it look like... serious production quality man.

it's typical of webcam products as well, look at any of their commercials or advertisements, NONE of them show you grainy 480 resolution feeds
 

Juddog

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Dec 11, 2006
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Seriously. Apple makes me sick. I saw this commercial on TV and it made me nerd rage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CRfHl1Glwk

Here is the summary: Stupid whore tells some jackass that he is going to be a dad using her iPhone with FaceTime.

"You know that thing we been working on?"

Seriously, go to hell you stupid whore.

This commercial makes me hate Apple fanboys/fangirls and think they are nothing but stupid retarded idiots.

I can just see all these idiots smiling at the TV going OMG I WISH THAT WERE ME TELLING MY BF THAT I WUZ PREGNANTS.

GOD DAMMIT APPLE. STFU.

Hahahahhahahh oh man you made me laugh so hard with this post that I have tears in my eyes!
 

mmntech

Lifer
Sep 20, 2007
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AT&T network can't handle it. :p

AT&T is pretty much what's been tying it up. Cell providers in other countries do things that AT&T won't, such as tethering at no additional charge.

You can enable FaceTime over 3G if you jailbreak. Supposedly eats up 3mb per minute. That means a bit rate of 409kbps.
 

AdamK47

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Apple has always been straight and narrow, goody-goody, politically correct, nauseatingly unoffensively, uber lame. If your into driving Toyotas, watching American Idol / America's Got Talent, and wearing sweater vests, then their products should be right up your ally.

I mean, you don't want to be perceived as different, do you?
 

bfdd

Lifer
Feb 3, 2007
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These new apple commercials are fucking terrible. It's rather hilarious how terrible their marketing is when they can't rip on someone else.
 

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
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These new apple commercials are fucking terrible. It's rather hilarious how terrible their marketing is when they can't rip on someone else.

their marketing is so terrible they made a profit of 3.35 billion last quarter
 

speg

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Apr 30, 2000
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Do you know why you hate it? Is it because these ads are targeted at the mainstream and you are sad that they are being introduced to your techy world and you no longer get to be the only one who knows how to video conference? These idiots who have never heard of Skype are now going to be wowed by "Facetime" even though you've been sitting at your keyboard video conferencing since 1992.

Get over it.
 
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StageLeft

No Lifer
Sep 29, 2000
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I agree with amdhunter's general sentiment although I already hated apple users.

You know what else, let's not pretend for a moment any guy has that reaction to news his wife is pregnant with first kid. It's more like "sh*t I guess it's finally happened".

Skoorb. Keeping it real for a decade now.

Also that guy looks like a chronic mbater and not up to standards of her, even if many guys can catch beyond their class.
 

StageLeft

No Lifer
Sep 29, 2000
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You know what. This commercial would have been WAY AWESOME if instead of "you're gonna be a dad" the chick simply said "Cindy said she'd do it once." And then it ended and you're like wtf has Cindy agreed to? Threesome? Who knows?!
 

Kanalua

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Jun 14, 2001
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Facetime is the new Nextel direct connect (push-to-talk)...When that first came out that annoying chirp and then some idiot talking loudly into his phone, then hearing everything the other person said in one loud, annoying stupid conversation...now I see people with their ip4's doing the same annoying, loud, hear you whole conversation crap on facetime. At least it's limited to wifi areas for now. My brother was using facetime at a recent family dinner...was so annoying!
 

Turin39789

Lifer
Nov 21, 2000
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When my pregnant wife and I saw that commercial for the first time, we agreed that if she told me over video chat I would be in the right to punch her in the stomach.
 

xanis

Lifer
Sep 11, 2005
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I agree with amdhunter's general sentiment although I already hated apple users.

You know what else, let's not pretend for a moment any guy has that reaction to news his wife is pregnant with first kid. It's more like "sh*t I guess it's finally happened".

Skoorb. Keeping it real for a decade now.

Also that guy looks like a chronic mbater and not up to standards of her, even if many guys can catch beyond their class.

You know what. This commercial would have been WAY AWESOME if instead of "you're gonna be a dad" the chick simply said "Cindy said she'd do it once." And then it ended and you're like wtf has Cindy agreed to? Threesome? Who knows?!

...aaand Skoorb delivers. :D
 

Raduque

Lifer
Aug 22, 2004
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At least it's limited to wifi areas for now. My brother was using facetime at a recent family dinner...was so annoying!

Man, if somebody came over to my house and started video calling on my goddamned wifi, i'd go unplug my wireless router. Fuck that bullshit.
 

JSt0rm

Lifer
Sep 5, 2000
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Also that guy looks like a chronic mbater and not up to standards of her, even if many guys can catch beyond their class.

Ahhh so you noticed he was holding the phone with his left hand too then? :)

fap fap fap... a baby huh? fap fap fap
 

Blackjack200

Lifer
May 28, 2007
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They need to make a parody where the woman tells the guy she's pregnant, and then pounds a beer and tells him 'look, I'm making your baby retarded!'
 

tatteredpotato

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Jul 23, 2006
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Apple has always been straight and narrow, goody-goody, politically correct, nauseatingly unoffensively, uber lame. If your into driving Toyota Priuses, watching American Idol / America's Got Talent, and wearing sweater vests, then their products should be right up your ally.

I mean, you don't want to be perceived as different, do you?

Fixed :D