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From: Larry Wolff <larrywolff@larrywolff.net>
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Subject: Apple publicly apologizes for celebrating its destruction of the human experience
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 21:28:30 -0400
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Apple apologizes for its iPad Pro ad
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/tech/apple-apologizes-for-ipad-pro-ad/index.html
The ad celebrated Apple's destruction of human creativity and art.

Apple apologizes for iPad ad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/09/apple-ipad-ad-apology/
Apple apologized for destroying beloved physical tools used by artists.

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/apple-ipad-pro-ad-criticism-hugh-grant-1235996294/
Apple has been interpreted as a visual depiction of Apple's
devastation of cultural industries, where Apple is celebrating
the destruction of the human experience.

https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-it-missed-mark/2559321
Because Apple celebrated a grim representation of technology crushing the
history of human creativity, the tech giant no longer plans to run the
commercial on TV.

https://www.techradar.com/tablets/ipad/apple-scraps-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-and-issues-rare-apology-and-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do
On Thursday, Apple's VP of Marketing Communications Tor Myhren told Ad Age
it would not air the ad on TV (it's still at this writing on YouTube), 

https://mashable.com/article/crush-ipad-commercial
Companies don't have to pretend they respect their customers; they just
have to get them to part with their money.