A few months ago I saw a car advert in which little robots jumped out of the wheels and dragged it along.

Complaining about download speeds seems a bit petty in comparison.

Why do my Macs alus look better'n they do taste?
Why is CSI not aS I C? Huh? You sequence the Fibonacci.

Just like when GM was advertising the pontiac a coupla months ago and the thieves showed it jumping through traffic and even over buildings. Right dishonest advertising, that. Oh well GM is nearly broke so what goes around, comes around.

"we’re not going to sit there and watch a 20 minute ad which shows the real speed of a file download, surely?"
No, but that's not my problem. I didn't write the ad. That's their problem, and they clearly didn't solve it.

Now you can have the whole internet, as long as it doesn't have flash, very fast, as long as you're in a land of make believe.

As suggested before, there's a line between exaggeration and lying.

Actually I wanted to complain about that ad, us techs know it isn't that fast, but the other 95% of the population probably do think it's that fast, especially when you consider the way Apple hype gets lapped up... They should at least show fades between any actions that take a while.. They also state that "some steps have been removed", so basically the whole ad is a lie !

Apple's ads ALWAYS over exaggerate their products. Look at the I'm a Mac, I'm a PC commercials. They greatly over exaggerate the flaws of the PC and the ease of use/compatibility of the Mac. The iPhone is just as blatant. Their commercials show them blazing through file downloads, web pages, GPS, music downloads, phone calls, and everything else. If I wasn't a tech head, I would absolutely believe that the phone was capable of such feats. But I've used it, and I've read the reviews. It is NOWHERE NEAR as fast, drops calls frequently, and apps lock up on a regular basis. In fact, it is slower to render pages than my 3 year old HTC TYTN. And how can they claim faster than the competition when it uses the same 3G network and they have downclocked the processor to save battery and heat? I don't know how all of their ads haven't been pulled for false advertisement.

Apple is notorious for having misleading ads. They've been so bad that I've been left wondering if they don't use the same people that American political campaigns use (or vice versa.) It's good to see that Apple is being taken to task on their faulty ads. What I don't get is that they have good products, so why do they have to lie about them?

"What’s silly about all this is that surely everyone knows that the speed is exaggerated on ads – we’re not going to sit there and watch a 20 minute ad which shows the real speed of a file download, surely?"

Are you saying its OK to lie in adverts, because everybody expects adverts to be full of lies? Because thats what you seem to be saying.

Maybe Apple should start selling cigarettes. As in: "Apple cigarettes now with 23% more phosgene! Apple cigarettes - theyre good for you!" Hey, its only an advert. Youre supposed to know its a lie, right?

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Too right, it left a bitter taste. O2's network performance is appauling so much so the regulator is on their case (3G or not, makes no difference) and the IPhone can't deal with this - the browser just gives up the ghost on most occasions. I've "upgraded" to 3G and noticed no difference ...... so - we are not amused!!

It's nice though, all these people who think the internet and machines are really like those in apple ad. After all, it works like that in movies too, and tv shows, and in computergames. Just not in reality. Wish I was that optimistic sometimes.