iPad TV!

03/08/10 20:25

The iPad made its first TV ad appearance during ABC’s Academy Awards broadcast. If you missed it, you can click the graphic above to view the official online version at Apple.com. This thing appears to be the King Shiz for onscreen demos edited in the ADHD style that’s so popular with These Twitchy Kids Nowadays.

In case you were wondering, the music is The Blue Van’s “There Goes My Love,” which is available here. The lyrics make it easy to see why this song was Steve’s choice for the iPad’s coming out party -- the first verse in the ad goes like this:

Be Be the charming type
Take off your gloves
And show what they hide
Please take my naked wrist
With your hands and fingertips

Very fingery content, no? The second half of the verse gets even freakier, suggesting the kind of things an unscrupulous Apple Store employee might go for if an attractive female wants to get bumped to the front of the line on Launch Day:

And please baby get on your knees
Don’t bare bare bare your teeth
I’ll let you pry if you close your eyes
I’ll have an answer for your wives

We must confess that the first time we saw the ad, we thought the last part of that lyric was “I’ll have an answer for your ass” -- which would make it more of a non-sexual taunt from Steve to the vast legions of iPadophobes among the Punditocracy. We’re looking at you, John C. Dvorak.

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