“In an expected heavy-spending campaign to introduce its iPhone this summer, Apple appears to be considering multicultural creative for the multi-functional device. A would-be spot calls for individuals of diverse backgrounds to plug different aspects of the phone in their native tongues, according to a casting call,” David Goetzl reports for MediaPost.
“A unit of TBWA Chiat/Day handles the iPhone account and created the [recent iPhone] Oscar spot. It’s not clear whether the agency is linked with the casting call, which claims to be only for a ‘spec spot,’ placing its ultimate fate in doubt. It seeks characters from various backgrounds, including Asian men who speak Mandarin; Hasidic males fluent in Hebrew; a French-speaking cab driver; a pair of Jamaican (or West Indian) women who can ‘speak with a thick patois accent’ and others,” Goetzl reports.
Goetzl reports, “The characters would tout the phone in their native languages, while going about their routine business, such as the Asian men as customers in a fish market.”
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Yikes! Not multiculturism again
The iPhone is a whitebread invention.
Flame away!
Are you sure you’re not Zune Tang?
Sure do love that freakin’ ad
remember the iPhone will be sold worldwide. There are French, German, Italian,
Japanese and other language interfaces for iPod…so without question they will exist for the iPhone.
Something about fishy smelling iPhones doesn’t appeal to me.
All this multi stuff is making me dizzy…
Yes, envision it: everyone crying desperately into their iPhone in their native language, no one understanding a word on the receiving end. iBabel. uHate.
Frau Blucher: “Yes, envision it: everyone crying desperately into their iPhone in their native language, no one understanding a word on the receiving end. iBabel. uHate.”
Oh, and one more thing… The iPUT (iPhone Universal Translator)
and yet, despite the evidence on this board, ppl consider americans ethnocentric…..
Tyra Banks is fat
“Leeloo Dallas Multi-Pass!”
After watching the latest AI (American Idiot – Idol…) “How come fat black women look so much better than fat white women? They can just get away with being fat and it does not look nearly as bad.”
Good question, but in our culture it seems a true perception.
My answer: Black is a slenderizer?
I love the Americans are ethnocentric notion. Which one exactly? I wonder if the “Germans” are ethnocentric with the Turks, or the “French” with their new Islamic immigrants.
Americans aren’t ethnocentric, PEOPLE are ethnocentric.
After watching the latest AI (American Idiot – Idol…) “How come fat black women look so much better than fat white women? They can just get away with being fat and it does not look nearly as bad.”
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Unless your wife is bicurious you really should have told her what YOU think of black women. What? A fat girl looks slightly better if she has a tan. So?
Belinda Carlisle looked cuter when she was fat
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MW=”feeling” … think I’ll leave that one alone
Cool. My girlfriend is Bulgarian. Pick HER!
I LOVE that frickin’ movie!
Just wanted to apologize for all the crap I spew on these boards.
I don’t even own a mac. And I work in Redmond. Can you forgive?
Sorry…
WG
@ My Wife recently asked….
Black women aren’t ashamed of being fat. They own it. And they’re awesome.
White women think they have to be Kate Moss to be beautiful.
70% of black women are single.
Thanks for the racial profile. Please, go on…
No entiendo porque piensan que el iPhone se tiene que vender en diferentes lenguajes…
@Leeloo
Yeeeeeesssssss! Did you.
If it’s good marketing that doesn’t have any whiff of liberal multiculturalism then I’m all for it. But it’ll be a mistake to have anyone that looks and sounds Arabic. No reason to be linking the phone in any way to it being possibly used by terrorists.
We all know the brothas like them with a little meat on their bones. Like it when they got back. So black women have no problem finding a man even when their figures resemble a bowling ball.