Steve Jobs Imitator with Angel Wings Promotes Taiwanese Tablet - holtmanlepaso

A new television advertisement airing in Taiwan has an actor with holy man wings and a halo doing a lightly-veiled imitation of Steve Jobs, to promote a tablet called the "Action Pad."

The ad, which appeared to hit airwaves start closing calendar month, features an actor impersonating Apple's former CEO, wearing Jobs' stylemark Shirley Temple Black turtleneck shirt, along with glasses and a cloudy wigging. IT does not refer to Jobs, who died in October dying year, by name. (The adver can be viewed Hera and here.)

In the ad, the Jobs character introduces the Action Pad tablet, which is from a Taiwanese company called Action Electronics. "It's surprising," the Jobs character says in English. He then speaks in Chinese with a foreign-born accent, adding, "In the end, I can play with another pad."

An Action Electronics representative said connected Wednesday the fellowship chose to expend Jobs in the television ad because of the innovation He brought to technology. "We praise Jobs," she said. "Jobs has done great things, and we also want to do the same."

It's common for mass to pay off homage to famous figures like Michael Old Hickory and Gentlewoman Gaga for their work, she added.

"We are not difficult to use his death," the spokeswoman said. "This is non meant to guy of Jobs."

But not all agree with the ad's intentions. "I sawing machine it and my first feeling was it was mocking to the dead," said CK Lu, an analyst with research firmly Gartner.

It's common for Taiwanese tv set to scoke fun at famous figures so much as President Barack Obama and Taiwan's president, Mommy Ying-jeou, he said. "Only again acting someone dead is not appropriate I am afraid," Lu added.

Apple did non right away reply to a quest for point out. In a similar case, Apple moved to stop another company called In Icons from manufacturing figurines built in the likeness of Jobs. Last month, the troupe aforementioned information technology would stop the sale of the figurines after threats of legal action from Orchard apple tree and Jobs' family.

Action Electronics has non had any physical contact with Apple, according to the company emblematical. The Action Pad operates with the Android 2.3.3 in operation system and is priced at $236. The pad of paper is built with a 1.2 Gigacycle per second dual core processor and has a 7-inch touchscreen.