Director Rodrigo Garcia Saiz of Boxer Films, Los Angeles, gets literal in the provocative (and bloody) new :60 “If You Drink, Don’t Drive” for Coexistence without Violence out of the Mexican agency Anónimo. Coexistence without Violence emerged in 2005 out of a movement that aims to promote a culture of legality, safety and health among young adults.
Produced by Saiz’s Mexico City-based Central Films, the spot opens on a dimly lit alley with a neon blue “Bar” sign on one side and a parked car on the other. As the bar’s double doors swing open, energetic dance music spills out along with four drunken men and women. Both women and one of the men laugh and dance their way into the car, taking their places in the passenger seats. Upon closing the car doors, the remaining man casually walks around back to his trunk where he pulls out a loaded shotgun. One after another, he dispassionately shoots each of his friends, their blood splattering across the windows. He then walks to the driver’s side where a super appears, “It doesn’t matter how. Killing your friends is killing your friends.”
The spot closes with the tag, “If you drink, don’t drive,” as the man starts the car and drives away.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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