{"id":683,"date":"2008-08-27T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/razorianfly.wordpress.com\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2008-09-09T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:41:21","slug":"uk-advertising-standards-authority-bans-iphone-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/uk-advertising-standards-authority-bans-iphone-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Advertising Standards Authority, Pulls iPhone Ad."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shot from the pulled ad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a recent article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/aug\/27\/apple.apple\">The Guardian<\/a>, it is noted the UK Advertising Standards Authority, the board of people responsible for deciding an advertisement&#8217;s suitability for it&#8217;s market, has confirmed it has completely pulled an Apple-made iPhone advert from being shown in the UK, in light of &#8216;mis-leading&#8217; claims &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The advert in question created claims of the iPhone having &#8220;all the parts of the internet&#8221;. The board found this to be mis-leading on a number of accounts, the two most prominent being iPhone&#8217;s Safari does not yet support Adobe Flash, or Java, which are both technologies used widely across the internet, today<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The company said none of the content in the ad was Java or Flash-based and that the line &#8220;all parts of the internet&#8221; meant website availability, &#8220;not every aspect of functionality&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can view the pulled ad: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/video\/2008\/aug\/27\/apple.advertising\">HERE<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Courtesy of The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/aug\/27\/apple.apple\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>R-Fly<\/p>\n<hr size=\"10\" \/>\n<hr size=\"4\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article by The Guardian, it is noted the UK Advertising Standards Authority, the board of people responsible for deciding an advertisement&#8217;s suitability for it&#8217;s market, has confirmed it has completely pulled an Apple-made iPhone advert from being shown in the UK, in light of &#8216;mis-leading&#8217; claims &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[104,110,4,152,3501,409,607],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ad","tag-advertising-board","tag-apple","tag-ban","tag-iphone","tag-mis-leading-information","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}