Apple Pulls 'Convince Your Parents To Get You a Mac' Ad From YouTube

Apple has quietly removed its day-old "The Parent Presentation" video from YouTube. From a report: The Parent Presentation is a customizable slideshow that explains why a Mac is a useful tool in college. [...] Students can customize the presentation slides, and then show it to their parents to convince them to buy them a Mac. In an accompanying YouTube video shared by Apple, comedian Martin Herlihy showed a group of high school students how to effectively use The Parent Presentation. Some users described the ad as "cringe" and "gross."

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[RobinH]

We just watched a Blake Lively movie called "another simple favor" on Amazon prime. After watching, we agreed that it was written by someone who's apparently never talked to actual people, and the acting involved not acting at all. My daughter walked through the living room while we were watching, paused to watch for a minute, and then said, "are these characters supposed to know each other?" It was so bad. It tried to play incest as a joke. I can't believe the movies that these streaming companies are

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[Brain-Fu]

The answer seems to be here [wikipedia.org].

Baldoni hired a firm to discredit Blake on social media. Apparently, one of the things this firm does is bot-post on every single slashdot story.

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[thegarbz]

I am confused, what does this have to do with Blake Lively?

AC presumably asked Blake Lively out on a date and got told to fuck off and now is having trouble dealing emotionally with his rejection.

Kids these days

[ihavesaxwithcollies]

I prefer the more direct "buy me bonestorm (apple) or go to hell!"

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[ShanghaiBill]

My son is in college.

He says the dorks run Windows, the cool liberal arts kids use Macs, and the techies run Linux on their laptops.

He's a techie, so he uses Linux.

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[bartoku]

Yeah, but what laptop hardware is your son running Linux on?

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[andi75]

As far as I know, running Linux on a MacBook is still messy, and requires some fiddling: To quote r/linux4noobs: "Typically what happens is something does not work. You google it. You find that the problem is caused by missing firmware. You google it some more. You find instructions that tell you how to copy the missing firmware from MacOS to Linux."

While I still remember copying my first slackware distro (featuring kernel 0.99something) to a couple of floppy disks to install on my shiny i386, honestly I ha

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[dfghjk]

"He says the dorks run Windows..."
He inherited his sophisticated takes from his dad.

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[Big Hairy Gorilla]

Other than their choice of OS what is the difference between dorks and techies?
do dorks game more and techies are writing python programs?

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[bill_mcgonigle]

Probably Business School kids and PoliSci/Communications majors.

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[pak9rabid]

I hope you're going to the Valley Vista Apple Store, kid!

81 sildes

[awwshit]

What parent is sitting through 81 slides of sales pitch for a Mac?

https://docs.google.com/presen... [google.com]

Saved me a ton of money

[capt_peachfuzz]

My son showed me this and I was impressed! I told him that the skill required to plan such a persuasive presentation, not to mention the graphic design and the execution of the presentation - would usually require a team of highly experienced marketing people. With innate skills like that, not only could he persuade a great company to hire him for top $$, but they'd be foolish not to! I said I thought that further college education could only serve to "dumb him down" to average college graduate material. Furthermore, whatever computer he used to make that presentation must be exactly the one he needs for boundless success. I sent him off with his old laptop and a $100 starbucks card.

If I can pick out the laptop for my kid

[rsilvergun]

Then I would pick out a windows-based laptop. I can get something for $600 that runs rings around a $1,500 Mac in most applications.

On the other hand I remember when my kid was in college and their granddad let them pick out a laptop. I still have that piece of crap. Toshiba, big giant touchpad screen which was why the kid wanted it. It was kind of a cool gimmick at the time. Could use it like a tablet. Which was absolutely ridiculous because it's like a 17 inch laptop. Absolute junk and it had half the

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[Big Hairy Gorilla]

If you wipe it and install Devuan it would. could. might.
lets say it would wipe the floor with windows.
haven't seen a mac in years, so ...

Convice your parents to sell their SUV

[jkechel]

Or ask them why they give a shit about your future in case they use a SUV.

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[dfghjk]

or why they are having children at all?

Computer?

[slipped_bit]

What's a computer?

Think Jerkly

[Tablizer]

Apple's been laying ad eggs lately. They had the Great Squishing Machine ad that was pulled, "erase grandma" fiasco, and now this.

Maybe bring back Think Different, it's road-tested.

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[real_nickname]

Also the ad in Thailand not well received by Thai people.

The Real Ick.

[geekmux]

Some users described the ad as "cringe" and "gross."

Apple making an ad trying to sell Apple, isn’t gross.

Their prices on the other hand..

The real version

[CEC-P]

Convince your parents that the #1 first thing they need to ask about a college is if they're an Apple environment. If so, that is not preparing you for the real world and is run by delusional fanboy lunatics who like to show off.

Some users described the ad as "cringe" and "gross

[nospam007]

I guess 2 people on Twitter.