The last time the British government succumbed to a reality distortion
field aimed at them from the U.S., they believed coalition forces would
be greeted as liberators by the Iraqis. Looks like they've
learned some lessons about RDFs. ...
The U.K. has banned the current set of iPhone ads from appearing on TV
in the country. It says its Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the
government entity in charge of regulating television, received two
complaints that Apple's claims in the ads that its phone could access
all of the internet were misleading due to its lack of Java or Flash support, essential to accessing much of the internet.
Remember the
post from yesterday, the one where I wondered whether Apple was taking customer loyalty for granted? I don't think they read it in Cupertino...
Apple complained back that it was unreasonable to expect it to ensure
compatibility with every third party plug-in or technology on the
internet.
Because, as you know, hardly anyone uses obscure technologies such as Java or Flash. Just people with "browsers" and weird stuff like that.
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