You know somewhere there is a libertarian - or more ironically a group of them - gnashing their teeth at the "nanny state" and other such whacko-nuttery over a UK watchdog's decision to make Apple pull the iPhone ads. I think it is just funny:

An Apple iPhone advert has been banned by the advertising standards watchdog for exaggerating the phone's speed. The advert boasted the new 3G model was "really fast" and showed it loading internet pages in under a second. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints by 17 people who said the TV advert had misled them as to its speed.

I've only played with an iPhone once and I have to say it was not as promised even when it was more interesting than imagined. Pressing, scraping, nudging and rubbing the little screen to make it do what you want as it's clearly making you do what it wants. At the heart of the matter is how having the little screen rule the mind makes you look like such a dweeb. At that [Ed.: beware!!!] Dylan concert there were all these dorks staring at their blackberries and iPhone and ignoring the show. Indignant boomers even wrote letters to the editor over it. Nothing like indignant boomers.

But back to the ads. If you really think the iPhone works that sweetly, do you also think that Sunny D taste good? Or that driving a Cadillac SUV doesn't make you look like a dinosaur?