> The group that whines about this kind of thing will find a reason to whine regardless of content.
Serious question - do you feel that all complaints in society are from the same group? And that group is, "the group of people who complain?" That doesn't seem a bit circular to you?
Do you think that kind of attitude might blind you to who is complaining about what and why?
Apple's customers don't like the advert. There's not point in Apple arguing with them. Its like trying to argue with someone about whether a joke is funny. If they didn't laugh the first time, having a debate about it just makes it worse.
Apple couldn't care less about anyone being offended or hurt. Apple cares about not buying again. And since the (effective) value proposition of an Apple product (at least for me) is: You don't have to worry about it. You can use it if you want, it will work. But you don't have to (it's not taking anything else away).
And this ad directly contradicts the second part. They needed to crush everything else! Which, while maybe true already, is most definitely _not_ a reason for me to buy anything. So, at least for me, but I'd argue at least subconsciously for most people, this ad is making it less likely that I buy the advertised product!
Not really victim culture. The problem is people taking comments on social media way too seriously. Facebook as around three billion MAU. Let's say half of those speak English. It takes 0.001% of that userbase to produce 15'000 comments passionate about an issue. That's more than enough for anyone to believe they did something wrong, if the other 99.999% don't care enough to engage in the conversation.
I can't wait for AI to finally give social media the coup de grace.
Imagine being so deep in the woods in anti-victim-culture culture that you concoct an association even in such an unrelated complaint like this distasteful ad.
