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Macboy Spoofs the New Apple Commercials
Spock the Baptist writes "A big plate of, fresh from the oven, homemade chocolate chip cookies to the person or persons who dreamed up this send-up of Cousin Bill via a spoof of the current crop of Apple commercials. Gotta love it!" Sure, why not? It's Friday! Also included are commercials with the You're Gettin' a Dell dork and Big Brother from the 1984 commercial.
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After watching all three, I can definitely confirm that these are amusing. I also like how he can make fun of Mac as well, since by parodying the Pixar logo animation with the new iMac as the jumping lamp, he confirms one of the common appearance jokes I've heard about them.
I wonder if Apple will try to use these at all, perhaps as something included on some CDROM - I'm sure they'd be in trouble if they made the Dell parody themselves, but if someone else did it, I'd think it's fair game.
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How long before we can see the ads showing the reality of the people who ditch Macs for PCs because the Macs are not really that easy to use (the hype!) and they find out that the application they want is on the PC and not the Mac.
-braxton
You must not need many kinds of apps. For almost everything, there are many times more applications of a certain type for PC as for Mac, or there are app types on the PC that you cannot even find on the Mac.
I've been much happier than the switch. (now that when I want a certain type of program, I'm actually able to find it).
Videogames? "Unless by application you mean video games (buy a damn play station)"
If you have a PC and want to play games, you don't have to give up and buy a separate console.
Danny Elfman did it first as a song. Then someone made that John Hurt film, and Orwell wrote the novelization of the film.
"Big brother's watching, we watch him back
We see right through his disguise
He tries to scare us, with angry words
But we all know that they're lies
Whole world is waiting
Just see the fear in their eyes
Whole world is watching, observing every move
Is it beginning or the end?
Just like a chess game, but so intense
That I just don't understand
Anticipation
It's much to big to pretend
CHORUS
(Wake up), it's 1984
(Wake up), but we've been here before
(Wake up), it's 1984
(Wake up), but we've been here before, (here before)"
At download.com, look for programs for your "baseball card" collection. For PC, there are 3 programs. For Mac, there is only one.
Even worse if you are into cross stitch and not baseball card collecting: 10 offerings on PC to just one one Mac.
Into model rocketry? Download.com has a program for PC, but none for Mac.
Into bass fishing? There are about 11 programs for PC, but none for Mac.
These are not obscure hobbies and applications (unlike fan collecting or making labels for 8-track tape cases)
Using Bill Gates to parody one of the new Apple ads has been done before, as he's a very obvious target.
Excellent. Two trolls in this story and both are AC's.
CLIT is teh sux0rs!
The creators of this clip (lickmysweaty.com) had to remove it from their site because Apple, in their "See no Evil, Hear No Evil" M.O. sent them a C & D letter. Apparently, Apple is unfamiliar with parody and freedom of speech.
Commercial fascism at it's best can be found right in Cupertino apparently...too bad they don't send C & D letters to people that can afford to defend themselves.
So if you can't do it on a Mac, it is not worth doing?
I'll tell that to all those mathematicians or statisticians doing complex work on PCs that can't be done with Mac apps that they are better off worth using the slide rule.
It would make an interesting ad campaign for some PC maker:
- What the math whiz needs when he has a PC (shows a PC sitting there)
- What a math whiz needs when he has a Mac (shows a Macintosh sitting next to an old fashioned slide rule, a box of pencils, and a stack of legal pads).
"Is there a way I could meet that DJ chick ..." -- Dell dude
:(
Me and the dell dude think alike. I hang my head in shame
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
But, wasn't the Mac heavily used in a little project that had something to do with humans and genomes? Dah, can't remember what that was called, so it must not be important. And then, there's this little organization called ... ooh, SETI, I think. Something like that. Anyways, if I recall correctly, much of the processing time has been done by Macintoshes (disproportionately to market share, in fact).
... and uh ... Windows, windows, no don't start hiding now. I'm sorry ...
And then, remember the whole library of applications that the Mac can use from Unix
I'm not sure if its me or typical Apple-loving by their fans but I've heard some people call this marketing campaign as brilliant. I don't see it.
Now I'm not any kind of professional ad critic but what I've seen from the commercials is "Hello, I'm a looser but I bought a Mac so things are looking up."
First, who's going to believe an Apple ad that Apple computers are easier/better to use? I mean, personally, I'd much rather believe that cow.
Second, why do these ad characters seem so stressed to me? The guy in glasses has that strange look in his face that says something like "dude, I have to vomit."
I've heard people describe marketing campaigns as brilliant before -- but maybe some people just love being advertised to?
ok, so it is a compound word. whatever...my question: can you run X windows apps on top of XP? remember there are literally thousands of free BSD ports out there for the taking that work with OS X, many of which are scientific and/or mathematics related (http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net). As I sit here writing this I have two xterm windows up, the GIMP, terminal.app and Mozilla. maybe XP can do that, but really, why bother...it wouldn't "just work". And no, this is not easy. but when you get X working on top of OS X for the first time, it is a rush, lemme tell ya.
Yeah, I agree, they don't look real, they look like they've been bought and paid for. And they sound like the more stupid specimen of our species. Most of them have to think about what their names and titles are for gods sake!
I'd like to see an ad with the programmer dude showing us on his screen why he likes programming on OS X better; I'd like to see the DJ chick show us how she uses her Mac for DJing. Not just a bunch of paid people saying "Hey they're great, trust me, and they're pretty, get them!".
Lies about crimes
I used to use a PC. It was fine, except that it crashed all too often. I will give a real world example as to how I hated Windows, so all you faithful /. folks won't go into the 'troll' and 'give evidence you fag man' train of thought.
Towards the end of my PC days, I used to play UO. Now, when you are hunting Drakes, it is important not to crash. Drakes take some strategy to kill, and when my machine freezes while I am flanking right, things go bad. You log back in after a restart dead, and in the middle of nowhere, with all of your items looted. There is my example. I love my Mac because it works. Sorry, I do not use baseball card collector software, or bass fishing, or cross-stitching, I think the people that do those things do not use computers for them at all. I live in Southeast Texas, I know rednecks and fishing, people that are real fishermen do not use computers to aid them. They drink beer and talk about fishing with their buddies on the front porch in lawn chairs. I use my Mac to do all of my unix things from my linux days, I use it to do all of my imaging things like Photoshop, all of my web things like reading /. and checking up on news, and all of my movie editing. It works better than my PC, I have found all of the applications I need for it, and they work better than the PC versions, in my opinion. iTunes is the best music software I have ever used, I love it dearly. So, IMHO, my Mac is the greatest computer I have ever used. Now, faithful Windows sheep, flame away.
But he was unmoved, and cried: "If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sa
Guess which "looser" is the New Yorker publisher
By the way, it's spelled "loser"
Loser.
Man, I laughed so hard at that!
I can remember using Macs in high school and the damn things were always showing that damn "system bomb" message "Sorry, a system error occurred." Of course, the Macs and MacOS of today are a hell of a lot more stable and don't do stupid shit like that, but still, that brought back memories!
Man, who was the waste of flesh who modded that down as "offtopic"? Maybe it was Pudge! I've noticed just about all posts even remotely critical of Apple or the Mac are summarily modded down, very quickly. Definitely editor moderation. Perhaps Slashdot is trying to create their own little Mac-zealot community here, and suppressing the dissidents is necessary to make the Mac zealots comfortable. Perhaps they're trying to become the Apple weblog. Perhaps they're the ones who "stole" the original MacSlash domain, in an attempt to hobble the competition...!
"A MACINTOSH WILL NOT CRASH, EVER!" I sure hope Apple doesn't attempt to use a slogan like that...
OK, you can mod me down now and continue living in your fake little Mac world.
can you run X windows apps on top of XP?
Yes.