After their request to have Verizon’s ads taken off not going through, AT&T just started airing its own “offensive” campaign called “side by side”.
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten Sr ruled indeed against AT&T’s injunction to have Verizon’s ads shut down since in his opinion, even tho the ads are “sneaky”,:
most people who are watching TV are semi-catatonic
so no reason to take them down, misleading or not (what a high opinion of American people!).
Anyway, in response AT&T also started airing its own ad against Verizon featuring Luke Wilson. They are mostly putting forward iPhone’s qualities than their own but I’m still skeptical about their effectiveness:
What do you think about it ?
[via Gizmodo]
