{"id":2683830,"date":"2026-10-14T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-launches-new-gadget-with-painfully-bad-ad-thats-making-people-actively-not-want-to-buy-the-product\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:46:54","slug":"apple-launches-new-gadget-with-painfully-bad-ad-thats-making-people-actively-not-want-to-buy-the-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-launches-new-gadget-with-painfully-bad-ad-thats-making-people-actively-not-want-to-buy-the-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Launches New Gadget with &#8216;Painfully Bad&#8217; Ad That&#8217;s Making People &#8216;Actively Not Want to Buy the Product&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fapple-launches-new-gadget-with-painfully-bad-ad-thats-making-people-actively-not-want-to-buy-the-product%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2683830&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article critiques Apple&#8217;s new product,HomeView,which is marketed as a central device for the modern smart home,costing $299. It questions the product&#8217;s necessity and effectiveness, describing it as a vague, multi-purpose device akin to a smaller TV, a less impressive speaker system, and an unneeded dialogue gadget. The tone is highly skeptical, suggesting that the ad for HomeView is patronizing and panders to stereotypes, depicting a household with a clueless dad, an overbearing mom, and smart children, in a frivolous and exaggerated manner. Critics argue that Apple seems to be pushing a product that promotes intrusive surveillance and control under the guise of convenience, raising concerns about privacy and trust in tech companies. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article includes social media reactions<\/a> that criticize the ad for being poorly conceived and overly patronizing, implying that Apple crafted the product more to generate buzz then to genuinely serve consumer needs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Why wouldn\u2019t you turn control of your home over to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-agrees-on-law-forcing-big-tech-to-tackle-illegal-content\/\" title=\"EU Agrees on Law Forcing Big Tech to Tackle Illegal Content\">digital giant<\/a> that buys into every pernicious stereotype about modern home life peddled by the worst elements of the American left?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the question that Apple\u2019s asking the American family. Just in case you didn\u2019t have enough of their gadgets in your life in one way or another, Cupertino wants you to buy HomeView, which it advertises on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apple-homeview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> as being \u201cthe new heart of your home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is $299 for a screen attached to a pod that does some stuff. It\u2019s a big ask, especially for a new product with an amorphous product \u201cdesigned to bring more joy and convenience to everyone in your household.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This description sounds a lot like it\u2019s a TV, but much smaller; a speaker system, but not as good; a space-age smart home gadget, yet another one we don\u2019t need; and a communication device, just in case you didn\u2019t have enough of those between your phone, computer, watch, and tablet. Buy more, die poor, leave the decidedly mid experience of digital AI-powered living to Apple!<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. It\u2019s a capitalistic society, and if this is what you <em>want<\/em> for your life, far be it from me to disabuse you of unloading $300 of your cash when this thing drops in November. The point is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/apple-relents-pressure-trump-makes-lake-america-change-maps-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> doesn\u2019t seem to be doing a terribly good job of getting people to want it, having produced one of the most thoroughly patronizing and aggressively unpleasant reveal ads in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure whether you want to watch it to check off the woke stereotypes in the ad or the amount of useless use cases this waste of silicon and metal is supposed to step into. (Forget how to make French toast? Don\u2019t worry \u2014 if you\u2019re too lobotomized by Big Tech to remember \u201cmilk, eggs, toast, cinnamon, sugar,\u201d a $300 pod will now remember it <em>for<\/em> you. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/michael-caine-furious-govt-puts-hit-movie-terrorism-prevention-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aldous Huxley<\/a> was much too kind to humanity when he thought we\u2019d need the kind of extraordinary technology in \u201cBrave New World\u201d to turn us into sybaritic zombies.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome Apple HomeView: Designed for life at home.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hkrYiZ_g9tw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Emasculated, know-nothing male, who apparently is the homemaker? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Modern woman who earns the bread for the family and doesn\u2019t allow her husband to touch the thermostat? Check. (To be fair, if this guy can\u2019t remember what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/family-feast-5-fast-flavorful-weeknight-dinner-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French toast<\/a> is made out of, perhaps it\u2019s better she\u2019s the earner.)<\/p>\n<p>Dumb son? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Smart daughters, tsk-tsking all the clueless, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaks-loose-sen-hirono-interrupts-cruz-accuses-mansplaining-committee-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mansplaining<\/a>, Y-chromosome-havers in the household? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Family life being a total drag? Check.<\/p>\n<p>So basically, if you\u2019re a dimwit housedad with a girl-boss husband, two smart daughters and one dumb son, all in an unpleasant home environment, fork over your cash to Apple and you\u2019ll always have something to remind you to pour milk over cereal <em>after<\/em> you get it in the bowl. Progress!<\/p>\n<p>And I wasn\u2019t the only one who noticed that Apple had forgotten to actually sell people the product:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is just painfully bad. Maybe the awful family is meant to distract from the terrible product?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SethDillon\/status\/2110046640807538839?\">October 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This might be the first time I\u2019ve ever watched an Apple ad that made me actively not want to buy the product https:\/\/t.co\/LOMU1UuuVN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austen Allred (@Austen) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Austen\/status\/2110007429190885777?\">October 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">@BasicAppleGuy Its the stay-at-home dad who can\u2019t make French toast and isn\u2019t \u201callowed\u201d to adjust the thermostat, the son is out of control, the daughter and mom are all super smart and with it, and they live in a multi-million dollar home. Who made this? \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Odd&#038;Entertaining (@oddreport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/oddreport\/status\/2110035696706879984?\">October 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As for that last question \u2014 \u201cWho made this?\u201d \u2014 my guess is, very desperate people. This whole thing is a needless doodad, and they need people talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that people are talking about it in all the wrong ways. Unlike Apple\u2019s other smart devices, this one is upfront with what it wants to take over: The home. 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