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Tech Time Warp of the Week: The Horrifying Apple Super Bowl Ad That Time Forgot, 1985
In 1985, Steve Jobs and company ran a TV ad called Lemmings, which you can watch above. The ad once again painted the IBM crowd as drone-like humans under a godawful spell, and it aimed to ramp up interest in Apple’s latest brainstorm: the Macintosh Office. The only trouble is the ad actually turned people off, not on — and the product it pitched wouldn’t be ready for years.
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A nice reminder that Apple has its share of total ad flops as well.
People only remember the good things. And I'm sure the companies don't mind.
I kinda like this.
30 year old ad back from when Apple was the underdog.
Classic song turned into a creepy song.