Apple 1984 Ad Commercial - Original Recording from The Day It First Aired
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mostly invoked ironically, to contrast Apple's anti-Big-Brother image in 1984 with its present-day behavior.
What it is
A home VCR recording of the original Apple '1984' Macintosh ad, directed by Ridley Scott, as it aired during Super Bowl XVIII, shown in the context of the broadcast.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Critical writepub · 2019-09 · on “AltStore: Alternative iOS app store that doesn't require a jailbreak”
Request to Apple: Just let this slide and see how it plays out. Remember when you took out SuperBowl ads [1] demonizing authoritarian, totalitarian megacorps that told you how to think and what to do - YOU are that company in 2019. Maybe if you let this alt store be, and monitor it's metrics you'll see that your users really want cheaper, more-full featured apps that you'd never allow on the app store - like a competing browser engine (Chromium), or JIT enabled javascript core [2], ... It may also happen that this alt-store becomes a piracy and malware haven - in which case, your thesis of totalitarian moderation might win. I'd bet my money on the former - a thriving alt-store filled with ap
Critical MichaelMoser123 · 2021-08 · on “Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life”
I guess it doesn't matter, the smartphone is a tracking device by definition, they can track your movement with a dumb phone too, but there are much more possibilities in a device with recording capabilities and an internet connection. In Orwells '1984' they mandated the installation of a televisor tracking device, now they have one in every pocket, and so it goes that we traded privacy for convenience. It's a bit of an irony, that Apple started with the big brother commercial, and ended up bringing us the televisor. [this video] Just because opportunity for an exploit is creating the reality of using that exploit, it seems as if it is then used for it's intended purpose..
Critical MerelyMortal · 2022-11 · on “Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes”
Likewise. People should watch Apple's famous 1984 commercial. [this video] Apple is not the same company it claimed to be back then. Dare I say Apple today is now the company they were against back then.