{"id":384728,"date":"2017-08-17T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/17\/mcdonalds-uses-iphone-8-render-in-ad\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T12:18:08","slug":"mcdonalds-generates-buzz-with-ad-showing-iphone-8-mockup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/mcdonalds-generates-buzz-with-ad-showing-iphone-8-mockup\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Generates Buzz With Ad Showing iPhone 8 Mockup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s is generating lots of buzz today after it used an iPhone 8 mockup in an ad promoting its <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/app\/mymaccas-mobile-ordering-mcdonalds-australia\/id1105300599?mt=8\">mymacca&#8217;s<\/a> mobile ordering app in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/08\/mcdonalds-australia-ad-iphone-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"775\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-582332\"\/><\/p>\n<p><center><em>McDonald&#8217;s promotional email courtesy of MacRumors reader Amir T.<\/em><\/center><br \/>The ad, emailed to many customers on Thursday, clearly shows a rendered iPhone with a nearly full front display, beyond a notch for the front-facing camera, earpiece, and sensors for expected facial recognition functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VenyaGeskin1\/status\/898117427762003973\">isn&#8217;t an official iPhone 8 image<\/a>, nor does the fast food chain likely have any inside information about the rumored smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>However, whether it was intentional, by mistake, or simply a McDonald&#8217;s graphic designer being clever, the ad has proven to be an effective publicity stunt, as several users have shared it on social platforms like Twitter and Reddit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s is generating lots of buzz today after it used an iPhone 8 mockup in an ad promoting its mymacca&#8217;s mobile ordering app in Australia. McDonald&#8217;s promotional email courtesy of MacRumors reader Amir T.The ad, emailed to many customers on Thursday, clearly shows a rendered iPhone with a nearly full front display, beyond a notch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":384729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-384728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}