I get that when you're at the top of the heap, second comers are going to take shots at you. It's just part of the game. Apple itself is no stranger to this dynamic; witness the beloved Get a Mac ads which wasted no opportunity to take potshots at Windows.
Lately, though, we've been privy to a number of god-awful ads attempting, rather poorly, to take potshots against the iPad. Now I'm all for fun and clever videos where competitors take jabs at each other, but that presupposes that they're actually well produced. Often times, they are not. And sometimes, they're so bad we just have to point them out and laugh.
The latest offender? A new Nokia web ad for the Lumia 2520 tablet running Windows 8.
The ad ostensibly disparages the iPad by pointing out that it has no keyboard -- this in spite of