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New "Get a Mac" TV ads
Klaidas writes "Apple has introduced 3 new "Get a Mac" TV ads: "Accident", "Angle/Devil" and "Trust Mac" " Normally, posting ads would be make me cry, but these are genuinely funny and well done.
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Yeah, these ad's disgust me. What has Windows done to you? Besides maybe being negligent when it comes to security, installing services without your permission (WGA), forcing you and the rest of the world to use their standards for so many years, and so on. It's not Microsofts fault that they need to break antitrust laws to keep a tight hold on the marketplace with a clearly inferior OS. And I'm not speaking only in comparison to OS X, but to many of the Desktop Linux distros that are really starting to shine. Hey, Goliath has feelings too. Come on, what better way to advertise your OS than to show how much better it is than your competitor? Bonus for the fact that its funny. I suppose they could come out with some scary music and footage of the twin towers burning, with an ominous voice proclaiming, "Bill Gates eats babies for breakfast. Is this the operating system you want running your computer?"
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Enough said. Imagine the flack if Microsoft made commericals like this... But of course its OK for Apple to do so, because they are sooooo special... like short bus special.
Nope, let me clear it up for you: Apple is not a software vendor, Apple is also not a hardware vendor. Apple is an experience vendor.
In other words, they are good at creating highly marketable, hypable products, but not that good at creating usable products with reasonable prices.
I've toyed around the idea with buying a Mac as my next computer, however ads like this make me reconsider.
...Obviously a "think outside the box" kind of fellow!
And here we have an example of why the stuffed-dicks on Madison Avenue have the influence they do: willies like the parent poster who will gladly let their own judgement be subsumed by their opinion on the style of a television commercial.
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"Apple is not a software vendor, Apple is also not a hardware vendor. Apple is an experience vendor."
And that's when I stopped listen to your crazy rantings.
Apple sells hardware bundled with software. They do their damnedest to make sure their software only runs on their hardware, and vice versa. They blatantly lie in their ads, they use anti-competitive methods to sell their products, and have been cutting corners in hardware production for years.
Stop acting like Apple's the best just because they say so. If they're so great you can probably come up with something better than "experience vendor".
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You are so right! That superiority complex spilleth out all over those commercials makes some potential users cringe. There's a sig floating around Slasdot to the effect... "Winners gauge their achievements according to their goals - Losers gauge their achievements according to their competition"
People I know that are not OS fanboys at all have told me so. I just tell them it's all about lifestyle to those people. Not much different at all and they have problems (even if not the same problems) as well.
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I've got a comeback that fits perfectly, alas it never appears in the commercial:
"F@#$ You Clown!"
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I'm all for this Mac bullshit about "easy to use," "good for the common home user" and stuff, but if all that is really true, why would you pay more for it? And it's ridiculously more too, not just a little. For the price of a fairly high-end PC, you can buy a piece of shit Mac, which is gonna lock up on you, give you the "?" folder on boot up, give you spinning beach balls and whatever the crap they do now.
Why pay more for simplification? It just makes no sense.
I don't think I will buy a Mac soon, if ever. I've used them, and they don't make things much easier, and there's usually things they can't do. There are also much more useful programs for PC, and many more choices. (oh whining about there's too many choices to make? That's stupid. I would still never pay MORE to get LESS.)
Oh and I've had problems on a Mac I used regularly. Granted, it was at a computer lab where everyone had access, but it still never told me what the hell was happening. It just gave me the "?" folder flashing. I ended up just having to switch computers. Oh, and these are the supposedly most easy to use ones, the iMac.
Yeah. It's unbelievable at what lengths people will go to defend Apple. Maybe it's the huge price tag that gives them the will.
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These commercials are funny, but unfortunate that they're misleading. They make it seem like no pc owner has every made movie on their machines, never uploaded a picture, or ever created a webpage. The commercials talk down to their consumers and make them look like they aren't even smart enough to question the lies they (mac) are filling their customers with. Case in point: two mouse buttons (pc) vs one (mac). I guess left and right were too complex an idea for mac users. I'm not saying that...Mac is by the mere fact that they are dumbing down the market and keeping themselves in a box whereas PC users/producers are always innovating.
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The ads are condescending and insulting to their potential customers, who, wholly agreeing with the ads, will happily purchase a Mac thinking that they really are incapable of reading and following instructions. Sigh. The real laugh was that you had to install quicktime to view the ads from Apple's website. As if. I did that once. But only once. --Slithy