Apple RosaParks?
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- bauts1060
There's no logo in the tribute? oh so thats not a logo on the effing APPLE NAV BAR at the top of the page moron?
- TenaciousG0
Mad props to anyone who makes a true tribute to Rosa the welcome banner to their site. Some of you all arguing against the big baad corporation wouldn't be complaining if that OLD ad campaign was putting royalty checks in your pocket...
- designaked0
bauts....you are retarded. please stop posting. it hurts my brain.
- pocho0
and when the earth dies, Apple will make this their homepage:
- Crouwel0
bauts, did you get my point?
- bauts1060
yes i get it.
I really wish a lot of you would not resort to insulting me before making a point. At least make your point before you sling insults.
I'm new here, and so far I hate most of you.
- Crouwel0
"I really wish a lot of you would not resort to insulting me before making a point. At least make your point before you sling insults."
agreed.
i hope i did not insult you though.
- designbum0
sorry, i'm catching up..
bauts106: "If they were truly trying to celebrate Rosa Parks' life they would have made the ad with no logo. This is not a tribute....its an anvertisment for computers that's trying to pluck heart strings and sympathy, and it's in absolute poor taste."
-amen, this really gets to the heart of the matter: their intention. if they really cared about civil rights, they wouldn't be trying to sell stuff in the same breath.
- jpolk0
designbum, read the whole thread... the rosa parks page actually links away from the apple site, to an external civil right site.
- Point50
bauts, don't trip. Some people act out of line only because their hiding behind their monitors. They say things here that they would never say in person to someone who they don't know that well. It's sort of an advanced communications defense barrier that they hide behind.
- Crouwel0
..and so what if it boosts their sales?
it also brings her life and achievements to our attention!
i haven't seen you make a tribute site for her or did you? apple put it on a site visited by millions, many people from abroad that don't even know about her, and now they will.
you would wonder, apple risks censorship in some countries fro doing stuff like this (i.e. China or any other shady republic or anything else..).
- designbum0
another thing i'm noticing from reading these posts is that it seems that some people feel that some corporations, or at least apple in particular, act in some kind of 'cool' or altruistic fashion. these people may get angry or hysterical when people like me accuse apple of acting out of purely selfish reasons. but the way i see it, corporations exist only to make money. the entire function of advertising is to get you to buy shit you don't need (if you needed it, why would they try to convince you?). therefore it makes sense to treat every single action a business like apple does with a healthy degree of skepticism especially when that action is designed to trigger some kind of emotional response that would ultimately result in a reinforcement of brand loyalty. like what we're seeing in these posts.
- Crouwel0
"but the way i see it, corporations exist only to make money"
exactly.
the way -you- see it!
and in fact a company simply can only exist if it does and if it maintains growth.
but then with power, as being a large corporation, you can do many things on the side, to influence opinion, politics, environment etc. in a good and bad way.
it's up to consumers to judge what in their perception is good or bad.
to each his own.
- designbum0
jpolk - yeah, word.. and i think that's cool. actions like that reduce the perception that they're trying to profit from her death.
- Point50
I agree designbum.
and grats on the molotov thread of the day...
- redFridge0
you know some people may visit the site that don't know much about her, or even that she had died. they link to external quality information.
it wouldn't be up there if there hadn't been a poster long ago.
- ribit0
remember too, that in honoring the people they featured in the Think Different campaign, it only makes sense to keep the 'Think Different' tag from the ads (reminding us of the earlier campaign's message, which Apple would genuinly believe to be a noble cause)... and they arent going to disrupt/dismember that element by removing the Apple-logo part of it... Think of it in terms of the design team that has to put this tribute together. it isnt deliberately Apple branded, its just a natural extension of the earlier recognition of Rosa Parks in the original campaign...
- MrDinky0
at least this is better than NoPattern thread
- ribit0
or something like that...
- designbum0
Crouwel, what you said is pretty self evident. the problem comes when corporations influence perception. that's what PR is. that's what it does. influences perception. that's what apple is doing. do they care about civil rights? do you know for a fact they do? or do you just think they do because they employ imagery from the civil rights movement to persuade you that they do? i mean, i've personally seen no evidence to support the theory that apple cares about black people any more than geoge bush. it's all about thinking critically, dewd..