Ads Don't Lie, But You're a Fool if You Believe Them - Apple

A fool and his money are soon parted. We're in a financial crisis now which must mean that the average person is a fool, and that the average advertising out there is foolishly misleading.

clipped from blog.wired.com The corporation's nine-page legal document [.pdf] is an answer to a complaint filed by William Gillis, a 70-year-old San Diego resident who alleges that Apple falsely advertised the iPhone 3G by calling it "twice as fast for half the price" compared with the original handset. Some parts of Apple's 32-point rebuttal say that the company was being truthful. But one paragraph says, in effect, that anyone who believes what the company says in its ads is a fool.