A woman is about to jump out of the house and take the kids for some fast food. Upon opening her front door, she sees a blacksmith from yesteryear at her stoop. He holds a disconnected drive-thru restaurant squawk box in his hand. “Looking for this?” he asks rhetorically.
He then offers an option to fast food in the form of a skillet in which resides a box of Kraft Velveeta Cheesy Skillets.
Next we see him holding her hands, guiding her as she cooks up dinner in his skillet. There’s even a pair of extra hands in the scenario which adds to the tongue-in-cheek feel of the spot.
He helps her pour Velveeta–a.k.a. “liquid gold”–over the entree of noodles and ground beef in the skillet. The magical “liquid gold” smites the quandary of preparing a delicious dinner with an economy of time and effort. Indeed this blacksmith knows the value of the skillet in a campaign in which he asks us to embrace the open flame and wield the power of the skillet to feed our families.
This comedic campaign was directed by Martin Granger of Moxie Pictures for Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore.
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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