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New "Get a Mac" TV ads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-amusing-to-pass-the-day dept.

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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  1. I guess all this stems from... by Aphrika · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...the fact that from a hardware perspective, a Mac and a PC are now pretty much the same, except in design, OS, name and - most importantly for Apple - price. I mean what makes a Mac a Mac? The OS, plain and simple.

    This seems to have forced Apple into a slightly more childish "Our Intel-powered box is better than yours" where they really have nothing else to focus on apart from the small physical design elements such as the magnetic power cord and built in camera, and a different OS. As I mentioned in a previous post a while back, by moving to Intel, Apple have less and less differentiating them from Windows PCs and it's going to make it harder and harder for them to command unique selling points from a hardware perspective.

    Unfortunately for me, this only reinforces the question:

    why Apple, won't you let me run your OS on other Intel hardware?

    My own answer to this would be that it's because they're a gnat's pube away from becoming a software company, and they're holding on to their bespoke hardware business for dear life. Once OSX is opened up to other Intel boxes (as I think it should be), what are the compelling reasons for buying an Apple?

    (incidentally, is it just me or does anyone else find the Mac guy condescending, arrogant and bloody annoying?)