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Love the minimal approach.

LOL, i thought this said:

Apple Debuts New iPhone, i almost S**T my pants, just bought mine

... like Adam touching the hand of God.

It's like running your fingers over the luscious curves of a woman you can make sweet love to.

"Print Ad?" Print?

How quaint.

If that ad doesn't make you drool, your already dead.

I had a youthful glow once.

The iPhone ad is nice. I like the minimalist approach and the caption. The image, however, doesn't do it for me.

MDN Take: Priceless.


@blacklisted

It's their forum. They can do as they please with your post or anyone else's post. That's life. If you want a forum where no one will delete your posts, start your own.

I am starting to think it might be a good idea for MDN to set up iPhone Daily News because although it's pretty interesting to hear Apple are kicking ass with the iPhone I am getting withdrawal symptoms from the regular Mac News.

Print? That's the one with ink, right?

This ad has run on the back cover of the NYT magazine for the last two weeks. Old news.

A.

This Ad only means something to those who "believe"

It totally would have been better with E.T.'s glowing finger touching it with the headline "ET iPhone home"

British Mac Head,

Hint: if you're not interested in an article, don't click it. Certainly don't comment on it, you bloody idiot.

Andy,

First time I've seen it, since the NYT is a red rag I avoid like the plague. MDN's interpretation of the ad is worth it.

I dunno about the god thing.

I think it's more like the monolith from 2001, and we Apple fan boys are the monkeys...

@whomever…how annoying !

Guys, you have it wrong. They were actually referring to another version of my fresco, which you can see here:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/thinkfilm/theten/

It's nice being called the God Phone and all that, I have a more important question: will it blend?

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone

Touching is believing but tasting is committing. Swallowing is voluntary.

The Michelangelo reference is a bit of a reach.

Touch me...touch me.

..sorry, I don't see it ..in fact I think you might be reaching ..no, wait a minute ..you are reaching. In fact, I've seen you reach and you are definitely reaching. I've even seen you stretch ...I've seen you drop somebodys article down and twist lime over it. I've seen you squash, rip and burn the eyes out of slimey analysts. I've seen you sharpen your teeth on a guilty mans reputation ...swallow and shat the man right out onto the floor and now ...well, now you're reaching.

I think that if the Michelangelo reference was intentional then the phone would be on the opposite side, with man's hand touching it.

It's a nice and possible interpretation but I wouldn't be so confident about it.

I'm going to have to agree with KenC. If it weren't for the author's commentary or MDNs take I don't think it would make me think of the Sistine Chapel at all. The arm isn't at the same angle, the hand and fingers aren't in the same position. Michelangelo's fresco makes it look like God is stretching to reach Adam, yearning even. This looks nothing like that. The only thing the ad has in common with the fresco is that someone is touching something, although you could argue thats not even a similarity because in the painting they aren't even touching, they are just very close. If they wanted this to be a Michelangelo reference I think they would have made it much stronger.

That is one sweet phone.

PainfulTruth said: "British Mac Head,

Hint: if you're not interested in an article, don't click it. Certainly don't comment on it, you bloody idiot.

Andy,

First time I've seen it, since the NYT is a red rag I avoid like the plague. MDN's interpretation of the ad is worth it."
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PT, I think it can be argued that your parents didn't teach you any manners. No, I'm sure your parents didn't teach you any manners.

NYT a red rag, yeah that's a real good one. I'm sure you get your truthiness from Faux Spews.

This will get the fundamentalists to purchase iPhones just so they can burn them!

Remember the Beatles sold tons of albums for this purpose after John proclaimed they were bigger than Jesus.

The... uhh... Michaelangelo reference... yeah. About that.

I'm not seeing it. I'm seeing someone flicking through a list on their iPhone in the most natural position possible.

I'm normally in agreement with MDN, but this one is a stretch. A big, big, big stretch...

MW: ENOUGH now

"Telephone To Glory! Oh, The Joy Divine. You Can Feel The Current .. Movin' On The Line"

(Royal Telephone. Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes. VeeJay Records)

I believe! I do! I believe! Amen! Amen! AMEN!

The term is Jesus Phone, MDN.

"It's like running your fingers over the luscious curves of a woman you can make sweet love to."

I make love to my iPhone all the time, does anyone have a way to remove the stains from the screen?

"The term is Jesus Phone, MDN."

Father, Son, holy ghost. Same thing in Christian mythology.

"I am getting withdrawal symptoms from the regular Mac News."

That's because there hasn't been any. Call Apple and complain.

yea but who is the ghost dude ? i never hear much from the ghost, has he got a name, or is he just referred to as the ghost?

Today's word is: subjective.

Can you say, "subjective?"

I knew you could, even though you spend most of your time arguing minutiae. And whether something suggestive is real.

Ugh... dorks.

MW "upon" as in "Grey po..."

I don't like it too much. I think the motion blur is distracting and why not see a head on view of the beautiful screen? Apple's site has iPhone in better poses than this. I like the catch phrase, but I also very much like the tv ads and think that the print ad should relate.

Am I hearing "When I Think About You I Touch Myself"?

MW:Feeling....as an option "Whoa, whoa whoa, feeling". Another tribute to the Canucks

Father, Son, holy ghost. Same thing in Christian mythology.

Um... yeah. No. Not the same thing. One substance, but three persons. Read the Nicene Creed for clarity. It separates out each of the three Persons, explaining their uniqueness. The Athanasian Creed does a good job in expressing their unity. They're quaint in some of their language (remember that "catholic" means "universal"), but worthwhile.

The Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed and a few others are found here.

oops, looks like I got Morris and Gino confused.
Mydumb.

I think it's fergalicious.

MDN take = Dumb

"It's their forum. They can do as they please with your post or anyone else's post. That's life."

WOW. Just like the news media.

Fair. And. Balanced.

Iphone, bigger than Jesus?

Is it just me, or does every thread here have its share of snotty know-it-alls? Just asking.

Normally, I appreciate what you guys have to say, but you are reading WAY too much into that. The ad expresses the experience of people, not deities. Mutlitouch, the iPhone: touching is believing. No more no less.

For us to invoke God in an advertising campaign might not only offend to our customers of faith, but many would chafe at the notion that even the Lord Almighty must agree to a 2 year contract with AT&T;. Another sore spot: since Heaven is not currently covered by EDGE, God would technically be roaming at home and have to place at least 50% of his calls in the continental U.S.

While we usually don't comment on unannounced products, on a bright note, I will say that God has been awfully gracious about allowing us to develop a special edition God iPod stocked with his favorite songs. The only problem: how to tell Bono it's not about him.

HoHo! I see, this "good" old judeochristian confusion of "god has created man at his image"... Hey! That doesn't mean that "god" is looking alike our external apearence... Skin and bones deffinitely aren't infinite!!

Nice one Steve Jobs.

You don't know the history of Heaven. I do.

'No Mac news' said one post above. What is he talking about?

The iPhone is -probably- already the most successful Mac ever made.

"even the Lord Almighty must agree to a 2 year contract with AT&T;."

The Jobs almighty does and to us Mac Fanboys, he's bigger than Jesus.

I bet Steve could kick God's ass if he chose to.

Have you ever used an iPhone to attract young boys outside schools? It works really well. You get them interested in the phone, and then you can begin grooming them.

Helas... i'm affraid, neither Steve, nor me, nor anybody on earth is big enough to fight believers obscurantism...