{"id":941239,"date":"2025-06-25T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941239"},"modified":"2025-06-25T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:22:26","slug":"apples-ad-showing-students-how-to-get-parents-to-buy-them-macs-is-gone-after-backlash-and-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/25\/apples-ad-showing-students-how-to-get-parents-to-buy-them-macs-is-gone-after-backlash-and-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s ad showing students how to get parents to buy them Macs is gone after backlash and confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare move, Apple has quietly hidden its new Mac ad that urged youngsters to buy Macs for their parents, drawing attention from both fans and critics. The campaign, called \u201cThe Parent Presentation,\u201d was launched as part of Apple\u2019s back-to-school push, targeting college-bound students and their families. The centrepiece was a video featuring comedian Martin Herlihy, who demonstrated how students could use a downloadable slideshow to convince their parents that a Mac is the right choice for university life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare move, Apple has quietly hidden its new Mac ad that urged youngsters to buy Macs for their parents, drawing attention from both fans and critics. The campaign, called \u201cThe Parent Presentation,\u201d was launched as part of Apple\u2019s back-to-school push, targeting college-bound students and their families. The centrepiece was a video featuring comedian Martin Herlihy, who demonstrated how students could use a downloadable slideshow to convince their parents that a Mac is the right choice for university life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}