“It’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Whether the true Apple fan boys would have caught on to the trick immediately, is uncertain, but these poor victims of a prank on the street couldn’t distinguish an iPhone 4S from an iPhone 5 when asked to comment on the new product,” IBN reports.
“A video clip on the popular show ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ went viral with over 2,225,843 hits,” IBN reports.
IBN reports,” Kimmel’s team basically shows random people on the street an older version of the iPhone, telling them that it was the latest, cutting-edge iPhone 5 and asked them to rate the ‘new’ product.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Castelbuono” for the heads up.]
What? There are actually people in this world who don’t hourly follow MDN?
Well, it is a bit scary to find people who claim to have the 4S not recognizing another 4S in their hands. No hypnosis or propagandization required.
Are you SURE they’re members of my species? This isn’t just some joke on me while I’m actually being held in an alien mind torture lab? Is this where sucker PoliTards come from?
Heh heh. Consumers… are… stooped.
You wait a hole hour?
+1
Apple has found away to cut down R&D costs. Next year the iPhone 5 will become the New iPhone 6! And 7, and 8 and 9 and…
Scary indeed.
But WE’D NOTICE!
no you didn’t
Kimmel told you the trick 🙂
Obviously a frameup… not even funny. Your show is not fun year after year… that’s your audience dude. Stupid jerks.
The anti apple prejudice is in full force. With every iPhone release..they become even more irrational, desperate, and obviously mad. Stockholm syndrome is ripe with the fandroids.
Average people are technologically gullible and will believe any BS told to them by someone who appears to be knowledgable. That’s probably why some average people end up with a Samdung phone.
Friends don’t let friend buy samdung made phones.
“If it says Samdung on the outside, you know its made of crap on the inside”
Samdung is bad, but Slamdung smells worse getting splattered all over the place.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the iPhone have Samsung parts on the inside? So basically what you’re saying is the iPhone is mad of carp on the inside.
Mmm. Mad carp… Aggggggggg
The average IQ is 100. Which means that half the population is below 100. What’s it like on that end having a hard time truly understanding most things in life but somehow convincing yourself you’re knowledgeable?
Processor, memory, and screen of the iPhone are all Samsung manufactured. And just saying if the “average” is 100, that does not mean that half the population is below 100. If the median was 100 then that would be true.
Average people are technologically gullible
Add to that a fear of embarrassment. They don’t know. They know they don’t know. So they go with the show at hand and lie in order to save face…. OOPS.
and they hardly walk out with a camera, grab 5 random people and are done with the segment in 3 minutes. they probably struck out with a bunch of people just to get those 5-6 they showed.
and those he did show.. probably figured it out at some point as well.
Obviously that’s how so many Android phones are sold.
let’s be honest… this is hilarious.
Now that’s funny stuff. I’d love to see their reactions when they find out they’ve been had.
holy crap… Hulk Hogan lost some bulk.
I guess that’s why the phone feels heavier to him. He needs to juice up.
But, but, but….they said it was snappier!
with no apps
not being bogged down with millions of photos
no collection of music
ofc its snappy – try reformatting your phone dude
Don’t forget the corn husker feature and the cake server feature too.
Maybe these people need to change cell carriers if they are noticing that much speed difference.
That’s not even a 4S. It’s a 4. You can tell by the frame gap on the top of the phone.
good catch.
What it actually shows, is how good the old iPhone is. That people can accept it as a new model, is great.
I like your twist on this =D
These poor people wouldn’t have looked at all stupid if this video had been made last year when 4S came out, right? A lot of iPhone owners out there probably had no idea that the form factor was going to visibly change this time around or that there would be no GoogleMaps any more etc…
That’s kind of what I was thinking. That the old one is still so far ahead of the rest that people still rave about it.
Who’s Jimmy Kimmel? Sounds like a name for a breakfast food.
And the same could be asked about this years BMW 3 vs last years BMW 3. But they still sell a boatload
How many people did they go through to find the 5 or 6 that proved their point.
Wow… There’s no other word for it–Some people are just plain STUPID!!!
LMAO!!!!
I wonder how many people it took before they found the first gullible person. There were probably so many people that knew.
There was bound to be people that knew it wasn’t the iPhone 5. But they wouldn’t have aired those people in the package, as it would take away the credibility of the gag, which was a pretty sad gag at that!
Not unexpected. I’d respond similarly if they asked me about automobiles or other tech I didn’t obsess about.
Actually, unless the phones are side by side lots of people are likely to be fooled. Try looking for YouTube videos about change blindness for example.
Proves that Apple iPhones, like all Apple products, are made for technically challenged consumers. Nothing but posers pretending to understand technology!