Originally posted by elouina
As silly as this sounds, it really happened! I went to logon to my local hotspot, and my Ipad wouldn't let me. Instead, I was presented with a full page ad for the new Iphone 5. It was similar to a browser page, but without any controls. Every page was clickable and took you all around their info on purchasing various Apple items. Just like being online, except, I wasn't online! I never was even given a chance to agree to the terms of my hotspot log on. My email, browser etc.. didn't work and I had no internet. It was like this for over 30 minutes. No matter what I did, or shut off, it would not go away. Finally I walked away from it for an hour, came back and the Apple crap was gone. I will never buy anything Apple again!

....sounds like what politicians do to us all the time, promising this and that, never doing what they say they're going to and then ........... YES, we turn around and vote the bass-turds in again and again and again.

So do I believe you'll never buy another Apple product ?

NO.......

I love(d) Apple - I have an iPhone, iPad and an old MacBook.

But they're such an ARROGANT company now - they're constantly throwing ridiculous lawsuits around, patenting EVERYTHING without actually innovating anymore, trying to lock people into their proprietary tech (they don't even fit macs with bluray players because they want everyone buying movies from their expensive iTunes store uggghhh) Everyone is buying apple products for the name and it just seems totally ridiculous now. The iPhone 5 is really disappointing, yet everyone is going to buy it even though the new Samsung Galaxy is better in almost every way. It's almost like a cult or something

Originally posted by Internet Explorer

It's almost like a cult or something

Remember when Steve Jobs said the Apple Board of Directors were the "Navy"? And why he quit working for them?

When Russia collapsed due to debt the way America avoided it was Ronald Reagan. He had each Federal Agency set up a Trust Fund and put a little money in it and told them to go out and invest to to have something to operate off of.

DOD's Military Retiree Trust Fund now has enough money in it to pay the nations retired military for 10+ years without 1 penny of Federal Appropriations....that Trust Fund has grown like MAD....and it's only 1 of their Trust Funds. I think that Trust Fund owns Monsanto.

Steve Jobs told ya.

Originally posted by Pervius

Originally posted by Internet Explorer

It's almost like a cult or something

Remember when Steve Jobs said the Apple Board of Directors were the "Navy"? And why he quit working for them?

When Russia collapsed due to debt the way America avoided it was Ronald Reagan.

The post to which you are "replying" was about how iPhone stacks up against Samsung products. You are talking about Reagan. This is such an extreme non-sequitur that it's almost disturbing.

It's like
"I'm having trouble with my cable modem"
"Look, Walt Disney was a genius"

And no, Russia did not "collapse due to debt".

Thats because its an apple product and they like to control and limit every aspect of their products, while they may make good and overpriced products, their constant hold overthat consumers through proprietary everything amaizes me why anyone would by a crapple product anyway. Jmho.

So.. nothing on my wife's IPad. Nothing on my buddies IPad at work. hmm.. must be a new marketing technique. Sending an add for a new IPhone to some guy from ATS and no one else. Googled it.. nothing. Asked my brother.. nada.

Only you OP, with your magically networked Ipad 2.

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Originally posted by elouina
As silly as this sounds, it really happened! I went to logon to my local hotspot, and my Ipad wouldn't let me. Instead, I was presented with a full page ad for the new Iphone 5. It was similar to a browser page, but without any controls. Every page was clickable and took you all around their info on purchasing various Apple items. Just like being online, except, I wasn't online! I never was even given a chance to agree to the terms of my hotspot log on. My email, browser etc.. didn't work and I had no internet. It was like this for over 30 minutes. No matter what I did, or shut off, it would not go away. Finally I walked away from it for an hour, came back and the Apple crap was gone. I will never buy anything Apple again!

May have come from the hot spot you was logged into. Just a thought.

Originally posted by fleabit
So.. nothing on my wife's IPad. Nothing on my buddies IPad at work. hmm.. must be a new marketing technique. Sending an add for a new IPhone to some guy from ATS and no one else. Googled it.. nothing. Asked my brother.. nada.

Only you OP, with your magically networked Ipad 2.

Well maybe you ought to take up reading so you can see that at least two others had the same "bug". And I am not "some guy". Once again, if you read this thread, you would see that I carry a purse.

Originally posted by buddhasystem

Originally posted by HomerinNC
If they wanna watch me thru my iphone or my ipad, let them, I lead a very boring life

Apple marketing tries to cover all population segments, including exhibitionists. This strategy apparently works.

lol all theyd see me do is play crysis and read....boring to some folk