“A bizarre commercial has surfaced from Taiwan [Action Electronics] promoting a new Android tablet showing Taiwanese impersonator taking on the trademark Steve Jobs black turtleneck and blue jeans look,” Electronista reports.
“In the ad, embedded below, the character is equipped with angel wings and a halo promoting the new tablet on stage with a slideshow in the background, much as Jobs’ would have in launching a new Apple product,” Electronista reports. “It concludes with the Jobs-like character saying ‘Thank God I finally get to play with other tablets.'”
Electronista reports, “The ad is likely to capture the attention of Cupertino’s lawyers who recently moved to stop the release of a Steve Jobs action figure. An Action Electronics spokesperson opted for an equally strange justification for the direct play on the late Apple founder, who famously derided Android as ‘shit.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Tasteless shit. Just like their tablets.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
I’m convinced, sign me up for an action pad!
There’s a new LOW in town!!!
The only place you’ll find Android tablets is in hell, stoking the flames with the packaging of all those shipped but unsold units.
So that’s what Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer will be using when their time comes?
Oh. Right. Bill Gates is trying to buy his way into heavan.
Android tablets in heaven would explain why the world’s so messed up.
I don’t know who is worse here, the ad agency that dreamt this concept up or the electronics company marketing person who OK’d it.
Some of us do not believe in a heaven, a hell or a gawd.
However, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a known Mac pro user…
As to Fandroid:
Unleash the hounds!
What’s more tasteless, Action’s TV commercial or an atheist’s pathological need to denigrate others’ beliefs in the comments underneath?
Newsflash: Nobody cares what you believe or don’t believe. If you can’t see — obviously, there are a lot of things you can’t see — why repeatedly plastering “Flying Spaghetti Monster” in your comments is offensive, then God save your soul – oh, that’s right, you don’t have one. I pity you and people like you.
I know, I know: You’re so smart and we’re so stupid.
We’ll see.
Atheists are like some gays in that their inherent insecurity over their choices causes them to constantly feel the need to rub their anti-religious views/sex lives in the faces of normal people who do not feel the unnatural compulsion to broadcast their religious views/sex lives to anyone and everyone they encounter.
+∞^10
You finally and definitively put into words what I’ve been thinking for years.
+ 10000000
+10 for the most homophobic generalization I have witnessed to date. What happened to you Julia? Did a couple of guys have butt sex and force you to watch the genitalia inches from your face? I didn’t think so. I pray you find the glory of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
BTW: It’s readily apparent that you have an unnatural compulsion to broadcast your religious views which, ironically, you disdain. I guess it’s normal to be a hypocrite.
+∞^10
So, anyone who disagrees with you is suffering from a psychiatric disorder, right? And then that somehow entitles you to go out of your way to be “in your face” offensive to them. You’re living proof of her position.
Hey Zeke 🙂
RE: “So, anyone who disagrees with you is suffering from a psychiatric disorder, right?”
Answer: In this situation, definitely yes. The generalization of “anyone who disagrees” is errant on your part. I am correct in my statements above. (My name is Correctu, and I’m here to help you.)
I imagine Julia’s and Zeke’s psychiatric disorder stems from either bad parenting or what I stated above (the 2 gay guys forced Julia & Zeke to get really close to their genitals while they were banging, and somehow that made them unhappy. There is no other way to comprehend this, Zeke. If you can’t see this, blame the ones that raised you instead of vilifying innocent people on the internet.
BTW.. I live in a country that has free speech. I’m entitled to say whatever I want. That includes talking about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the non-existant deity you call “God” and origami.
+∞
Hmmm… sorry, I am at a complete loss to see how progressiveagentprovocateur’s comment is tasteless or denigrating. How is it that a simple reference to the “Flying Spaghetti Monster” is offensive, especially if it is a known Mac Pro user? He isn’t demanding that you believe in the FSM, nor is he treating you with the caustic sarcasm you have dredged up in response. Methinks your posting is more ideological than religious…
PAP’s comments imply equal validity concerning other people’s deeply held beliefs with a frivolously and purposely ridiculous (as in deserving ridicule), simplistic, pretend being. The intent is obviously to be offensive and denigrating, and to assuage PAP’s anxiety about his/her choices in belief systems. I am a Christian, but I don’t feel the need to go out of my way to denigrate PAP’s lack of belief in Christ, possibly because I don’t need PAP’s validation for my belief, or lack thereof, and I’m not insecure in my life choices. I’m not insulted by PAP’s statements. I’m annoyed in the same way that one can be annoyed by a barking chihuahua behind a screen door. It’s not the content. It’s the unnecessary noise and aggression.
RE: the republican dickhead @
“What’s more tasteless, Action’s TV commercial or an atheist’s pathological need to denigrate others’ beliefs in the comments underneath?”
And what are you doing? He believes in a Flying Spaghetti Monster and I believe you should respect his beliefs. Maybe even read into the Flying Spaghetti Monster so you can understand him. Keep in mind that you aren’t in a walled garden when you’re on the internet. People WILL have different opinions and beliefs than yours.
RE: “Newsflash: Nobody cares what you believe or don’t believe.”
Apparently you do.
“If you can’t see — obviously, there are a lot of things you can’t see — why repeatedly plastering “Flying Spaghetti Monster” in your comments is offensive, then God save your soul – oh, that’s right, you don’t have one. I pity you and people like you.”
Keep in mind, atheists can see quite fine thank you. (We don’t have that antiquated belief system dragging us down.) We don’t need your pity.. what we need is acceptance and the right to have free speech.
RE: “I know, I know: You’re so smart and we’re so stupid. We’ll see.”
We already have seen that… your discussions here on MDN already prove you are an idiot.
You start your post “the republican dickhead”.
On a pedantic note, that should be Republican with a capital R so as to differentiate him from a republican which is a perfectly reasonable position.
Secondly, you say “the” as if he was unique. He isn’t. Republican dickheads come in six-packs and 24-dickhead “fun size” packs for when you just want a little “dickishness” to mix with your bigotry and casual disregard for the Constitution or international law.
Boy do you sound smart! No, not so much. But I’ll bet your mom thinks you are.
Well, she did when she was alive.
But other than that, that’s a really snappy retort.
There wasn’t a denigration of your beliefs so don’t be so darn precious.
All the poster was doing was stating that he/she and others don’t believe in heaven or hell or a god (of any sort).
In fact, Judaism (the faith in which I was born, but have long since drifted from) doesn’t share the Christian concept of an everlasting hell, but has “gehenna” which is, more or less, a purgatory where one comes to appreciate the mistakes made in life before moving onto the Jewish version of “Heaven”.
Job’s Buddhism has a completely different view of the afterlife to the Abrahamic religions and, as far as I know, some elements have no concept of an omnipotent creator/deity.
You’re also contradicting yourself: if Nobody cares what you believe or don’t believe, then why is repeatedly plastering “Flying Spaghetti Monster” offensive?
Pick a position and stick to it as my good friend Mitt Romney says (on most Thursdays at any rate).
“…then why is repeatedly plastering “Flying Spaghetti Monster” offensive?”
For the same reason that repeatedly telling everyone one meets that they are going to hell if they don’t believe in Jesus Christ is offensive. Got it?
No I don’t get it because it’s not offensive to me as I don’t believe in the concept.
But I would worry about the sanity of the person saying it.
Just like I worry about the sanity of anyone sharing a mass delusion based purely on the writings in an old book.
But feel free to project your insecurities onto me if it makes you happy.
“Just like I worry about the sanity of anyone sharing a mass delusion based purely on the writings in an old book.”
If that is your assessment of Christianity you have a lot to learn. Just because something is not offensive to you does not make it inoffensive. It merely indicates your monumental narcissism. And as for insecurities, I’m not the one constantly braying about being either an atheist or a Christian.
Not my assessment of Christianity alone, so get down off your cross.
It’s actually my personal assessment (which you choose to re-frame as ‘narcissistic’)of all religions which rely on anecdotes and aphorisms written in the past by people who – for all I know – may themselves have been enthralled by a cult mentality, emotionally disturbed or – at the extreme – under the influence of hallucinogenic substances, which why I – personally – won’t and don’t follow any religion. For information, I also have a similar scepticism for ‘modern’ cults and concern for those affected – whether it’s for recently-departed North Korean leaders, Facebook (although I do use FB to stay in touch with a very small group of friends, I don’t check in for days on end and I’ve never logged what sandwich I’ve eaten for lunch because nobody should care).
That’s not narcissism or narcissistic behaviour: it’s my personal set of values and it works for me; if you believe something else, go with it.
But different strokes for different folks: I don’t have an issue with those who temper their spiritual, political, economic or social views and beliefs with rationality and tolerance for other points of view. Just don’t try and suck me in to your belief/value-system or attack me (or others who may share all or part of my viewpoint) because we don’t wish to join in the “organised” fun.
PAP’s original post was nothing more than an observation that you don’t need to believe in an Abrahamic religion or any of the underlying concepts to find that advert absurd and offensive.
Personality or belief cults that rigidly adhere to a dogma and an unquestioning deference to a “priesthood” (whether that priesthood is religious, a politburo, an academic elite or whatever) are inherently unhealthy: whether you’re talking about the afterlife or climate change, there should be room for more than one point of view and there definitely shouldn’t be a process of victimisation and vilification for anyone who doesn’t adhere to the prevailing belief-system or mores that are held as “accepted wisdom” by any group in society.
Sure there are ethical concepts that we should all share: don’t kill, don’t libel, don’t steal, don’t defraud, don’t lie, don’t exploit or abuse the weak and the defenceless (sexually, economically, emotionally or otherwise) and there are probably several dozen others.
But they’re not necessarily based in any religion as much as they are pre-requisites for a healthy society.
It it is simply disgusting the way some Christians feel a need to continually denigrate any reference to our lord the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Oh I know, I know: You’re so smart and we’re so stupid.
Hey, believers, in their self-righteousness, spend much of their time denigrating those whose non-belief is a belief.
There’s belief and then there’s knowledge. God, afterlife, soul are matters of belief, and none of us knows, or can prove, their existence or non-existence. You don’t know, and whoever taught you didn’t know.
So really, anything is possible, from pearly gates to Flying Spaghetti Monsters. From the Old Testament God to the very different New Testament God, from Mark’s Jesus to John’s very different sort of Jesus. Live in the most ethical, creative, accomplished, evolving, and enlightened way not because we expect a reward, but for it’s own sake, and let death reveal, or not, if there’s anything else. Good is better than evil, because it’s nicer.
“Live in the most ethical, creative, accomplished, evolving, and enlightened way not because we expect a reward, but for it’s own sake, and let death reveal, or not, if there’s anything else. Good is better than evil, because it’s nicer.”
A pretty good description of Christ’s teachings, which BTW is light years from what most churches teach.
But wait! Light years infer science. Depending on which book you pray with, that could be a ticket to eternal, infernal damnation. Keep science out of the classroom. That’s where religion belongs! ;)~
Actually, many of *your* posts are quite tasteless, F10T12. And you apparently believe that it is OK to “pathologically” push your ideology on everyone else. You also defend your posts with highly disparaging attacks against anyone who disagrees with you. For someone who pushes Christianity, I find it instructive to observe how far you stray from the Word.
It is quite apparent that you and I will seldom agree on anything. Fortunately, I don’t feel a need to change you or to justify anything to you. I just like to point out your frequent displays of hypocrisy.
The FSM would be the master of multi-touch!
Talking about bad taste…
Shit happens®
whoa, that’s some sick shit.
Wow. There’s bad taste, and then there’s licking the tagnuts off a dead dog’s arse.
There would be one compelling reason for pulling a stunt like this – free publicity.
Unfortunately it has already worked and MDN is ensuring that they get even more free publicity.
So what. Do you think anyone here will buy an Action pad?
I kinda doubt it.
The ad was designed to create controversy amongst Apple users, with the intention of it being widely reported.
MDN is simply adding fuel to that fire and the story will appear in all sorts of mainstream places.
It was never likely that somebody familiar with iPad would buy this tablet, but more people will now have heard of Action Electronics, which was the intention all along.
The weird thing is that they think Steve’s keynotes were so famous amongst regular people that they think this will help sales. Honestly, I thought only extreme geeks watched Steve’s keynotes.
True. The average Joe didn’t sit and watch an hour long keynote about Apple’s new products.
Maybe they caught a little of it on the news or something the night of.
Software engineers, industrial designers, and shareholders for the most part… Most of which wouldn’t touch that thing.
But then again, I’d never heard of that company and now I have.
What does it profit a man to gain the world, but lose his soul? I don’t think you get wings and halos in Hell…
Get over yourselves. It’s just a commercial for a inconsequential product you never even knew existed.
No class.
If this is the afterlife for Jobs, then he has found his own personal hell.
I’m interpreting this as a sign that there is no afterlife. If there were, Mr Jobs would’ve sent destroyed these jerks with a massive flying thunderbolt from the great beyond.
That is one really ugly copy of Steve Jobs! Everything they copy in Asia is really ugly.
I’m interpreting this as a sign that there is no afterlife. If there were, Mr Jobs would’ve sent destroyed these jerks with a massive flying thunderbolt from the great beyond!
Sadly, indicative of the human condition.
Isn’t this the same country that sells and whores out their daughters? Do we really expect to see something tasteful from them?
I’m confused. Wasn’t this about an ill-conceived and presented ad in Taiwan? I did not realize it was an invite to debate personal choices……
I know what you mean. I scanned straight down to the bottom of the page after reading the first few.
Thread hijackers are a pain aren’t they?
Hey, that one really should be called the ChinkPad!
I thought there was a thing called RESPECT THE DEAD in Taiwan by the Chinese there. I would like to see this commercial run during the month of the Ghost Festival.t
“Taiwanese TV ad depicts Steve Jobs using Android tablet in afterlife…”
… as a frisbee… possibly also a clay pigeon.
“Pull!…”
Wow. What a horrible commercial. And these posts, from waaay out of right (wing) field. Can’t we stay on track and see this post for what it is? Not a commentary on the afterlife, but a reeally baaad advertisement.