Over in England, they have deemed a certain advertisement which depicts the iPhone 3G as misleading.  Thus, it has been pulled from the airwaves until Apple makes the correct changes to it.  So what is the problem with this advetisement?  According to the Advertising Standards Authority, the advertisement is innacurate due to that it claims that:

“…all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone.”

I don’t know how anyone would expect ALL of the internet to be on the iPhone, but I suppose there are a few dimwits who would be tempted to buy it as a result of this obviously metaphorical statement.  And well, we know that isn’t exactly true. We still don’t have Flash or Java support on our iPhone and Flash and Java are a pretty big part of the internet. Apple claims that the advertisement implied the availability of webpages, rather than their specific appearance. Which honestly sounds like a cop out to us. But still, pulling the advertisement seems a bit excessive.

-Jameson

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