Apple Pulls Latest Ad After Criticism Over Depiction of Thailand

Honestly, I was expecting the more standard sex jokes. The fact that they didn't touch anything sexual makes it a high brow media affair from the west.

Pluses in the video:

• They could find factories to make their product at scale within 24 hours both times
• The internet, and their high bandwidth connections, worked anywhere in the country including the countryside factories

Minus is in the video:

• Their luggage got lost at the airport
• They used every type of transportation available, except the most obvious, because the art directors couldn't resist a planes trains and automobile homage.
• Sepia tone filter on everything
• The hotel they booked was hilariously bad

On the whole, I think the positives are great, the negatives are just nitpicking.

I think I've seen all these minuses on other productions and other countries, it's just traveler frustration tropes

Also, this entire video, the travel physically going to places, could have been an email. There's no reason they need to physically go to a factory to negotiate a contract, that's 1970s thinking. But it makes for a good video