Apple rips Postal Service music video ... or not
“Strike two for Apple,” says Joshua; and I agree. Apple has blatently ripped a music video from Postal Service with their recent ad (for the Intel iMac). What did that meeting look like?
Apple execs: We need something cool to promo our new Intel-based computers … ooh, something like that! (Gestures to the plasma TV on the wall showing MTV and “Such Great Heights” video playing.)
Ad firm: Done!
Gimme a break.
UPDATE: It would seem this is a false alarm, and the director of the music video is also the director of the Apple ad … who just repurposed it. I don’t know whether to be pissed off or understanding – the idea is still cool.
so what happens on strike three? are you going to renounce apple and trade in your fancy powerbook for a dell?
§ chris · 17 January 2006
Hardly.
On strike three their batting average goes down and their rookie card isn’t worth as much. It happens to all the greats.
§ Sean · 17 January 2006