iPhone Ad Banned in UK for False Advertising
Note to Apple: people in the UK don′t take too kindly to false advertising. Yet another one of the company’s iPhone ads has come under fire for making inflated claims. Focused on the phone’s 3G speed boosts, the commercial features the handset flying through the Web at a breakneck pace.
The Advertising Standards Authority fielded 17 complaints about the ads–not exactly a deluge of concern (though perhaps some users attempted to e-mail them from a first generation handset), but enough to get the commercial banned in the country.
The Guardian points to the above video, created by Robert Reed, with a real world iPhone next to the one in the commercial. False advertising? We′ll let you know as soon as YouTube finishes loading on our phone…
Original post by Brian Heater