After a frustrating phone call with his cable company, a man goes to play racketball to let off some steam. But as a voiceover explains, when you let off steam, that can lead to an accident. A ball hits the man in the eye, leading to his having to wear an eyepatch.
The voiceover continues in this chain reaction of events, noting that when you wear an eyepatch, you look tough. Now riding in the back of a public bus, the man is being eyed by several hooligans.
And when you look tough, there are guys who want to find out how tough you really are, relates the narrator.
Sure enough, we see the hooligans chasing our eyepatch-wearing guy down the street. The voiceover then notes that when others try to see how tough you are, you end up laid out in a roadside ditch.
Next our hero is seen waking up in a ditch.
The voiceover then offers some sage advice along the lines of don’t end in a ditch. Instead ditch cable and go with DirecTV.
Tom Kuntz of MJZ directed for Grey New York.
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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