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Justin Long No Longer A Mac
david.emery writes "Wired is reporting that Apple will be replacing Justin Long as its 'Mac' in their 'I'm a Mac/I'm a PC' ad campaign. John Hodgman, the personification of the PC, is reportedly shooting new commercials." From the article: "Even people who hate the campaign find their core idea compelling enough to endlessly satirize the series on YouTube. The one enduring criticism of the ads is that John Hodgman's PC is funnier and more likable than Justin Long's sleazy hipster doofus Mac. (just what was he saying to that hot new camera from Japan?) Hodgman is a riot (just read "The Areas of My Expertise" if you don't believe me), but I'm not sure how the new series of ads goes on from here. Is there a new Mac? Does Hodgman become the Mac?"
right on time!
From TFA: O RLY, a huge movie star? Why, he was billed 17th in "Dodgeball"! And who could forget his star turn in "Jeepers Creepers II"! Why, I bet he's even bigger than Bronson Pinchot, and that dude's enormous!
Apparently the author hasn't seen "Accepted." Hilarious movie. I'll forgive him, though, because he used O RLY in a news article.
We're now analyzing an ad campaign's casting moves... must be a slow Saturday Night in geekland.
people like me found the PC dude much more amusing and likeable than the scruffy, elitist asshole Mac guy?
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
Since they were both chosen as "types" of a machine ... what does this decision have to say about PC's versus a mac?
"Is it true that you squeeze photographs out your ass?"
Not the Americans dubbed in Japanese - these are Japanese actors doing the same shtick. Hi-larious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpYgNz6W6Gs
It was produced by G4.
Penny Arcade has got to be the single most unfunny thing on the face of the planet.
Justin Long as there will be new ads. I'm Justin love with the current ones, personally.
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Maybe they can get the Hot Japanese Camera to play the Mac?
It would only be fitting. If imitation IS the most sincere form of flattery, then PCs should be awfully flattered. Waaaay back in the day, Macs had a selling point of being able to read PC diskettes. Then they started boasting that they could run PC programs. After that, you were able to buy an add-in card with a Pentium CPU, on which to run your Windows apps. Now, they run on Intel hardware, and you can boot into Windows.
As much as I respect Macs for what they are and do, for all of their "We're different" attitude, they just can't seem to stop with the "Me, too!" actions.
Ah, well. Here goes nothing, Maccers, start modding me down....
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
The commercial needs some intimidating stars, to reflect the intimidating arguments Mac and PC users perenially fling at each other. I say we get Alan Rickman to be the Mac, and Christopher Walken to be the PC. Then users can choose the lesser of two evils...
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Justin Long has only been using Macs for a few years, from what I hear, just since they became trendy. But John Hodgman is the real deal—a Mac user since '84, and a talented writer in Brooklyn, too. I've seen him around the neighborhood, and all the girls go wild for him in real life. No kidding.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
If you kill the Mac, you become the Mac.
There's a longer clip on 'The Google'.
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It not funny though, the poor kid has just become an unsigned long. Hopefully another actor can give him a few pointers which he can store for future reference.
Okay, the ad about viruses was a good one, but the first of this series of ads I saw, the PC was complaining about not being able to run anything other than business software, and the Apple could run games and a bunch of other stuff. I was thinking, eh? Mac runs more games than the PC? Hell, a PC running Linux can probably run more games than a Mac (winex, and so on).
He says "Pleased to meet you" (two different phrases, but add up to that) and "Thank you" for the picture, and she says "Hey, hey, doesn't he (the PC) seem kinda geeky?"
FWIW he doesn't sound like he actually speaks japanese, just for the ad. But maybe he does. Yo, Justin, work on your accent! Ganbatte!
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Heh, there's no (+1 Groan) Just sayin'. :)
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That looks like "The Rahmens", a very well known comedy duo in Japan. Here is a sample of their best work illustrating how to eat sushi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIb6ZSqal64&feature =PlayList&p=51CAE8F9A6BB401A&index=7
I could imagine someone else being in that position, but not really a different character.
Hodgman, as the PC person, is supposed to be the bumbling-buffoon comic relief.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
Mac: Whatcha got there?
PC: Games.
Mac: Can I play?
PC: No.
Mac: Aww! No fair.
PC: All right. you can play them in 2 years, if you're lucky.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
If you've seen the comments the mods label "funny", you know that "funny" to a Slashdot mod is "groan-inducing horrible pun" to everyone else.
And this is coming from a guy who loves puns.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
So I guess that means we're saying "so Long" to the PC vs Mac ads?
I found the PC guy to be too obnoxious, I just want to hit him. The Mac guy seems like a fairly average Joe, reasonably likable. I don't get it. Elitist? He's got his hands in his pockets and he's wearing jeans. How is that elitist?! Anyway, the guy in the tie is always the elitist, it's a rule of nature.
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So jeans + sweatshirt = hippie? It's clearly not we jeans-wearing people that have a problem with elitism...
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I always thought it would be great if a penguin waddled into those commercials and bitch-slap both of them.
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And a fourth, "you look like Linux" "no I'm not, shut up" BSD.
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
...It's more likely because his agent figured he was "hot stuff" which Apple couldn't live without and so he demanded too much money. Then Apple proceeded to say, 'Alright then. Goodbye', where then Long's agent had a massive 'oh crap' moment and heart attack.
"Everything worth innovating today will go to court tomorrow."
Just one long can't store pointers, although I bet if you had an array of them, that array could store pointers as long as they didn't mind being typecast.
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"um, well, uh just like the PC with Google's Picasso, Pinnacle Studio/Ulead VideoStudio, and Sony Sound Forge." Except all those third-party apps are not integrated with each other or with Windows, so setting them to import/export from/to one another with a unified file browser isn't possible, not to mention not having access to embed your iTunes Store music purchases as tracks.
In fact, no third-party "iLife for PC" cocktail is as easy, intuitive, or great-looking as iLife on a Mac.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
In actuality, Hodgman is a Mac user.
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+5, Brilliant.
There are some parody clips on youtube. Some of those clips include a third character: linux.
Don't bother. Most of them end up with Linux being the one that gets bashed on.
Who wants to see more of Ellen Fleiss?
I don't know anyone who actually likes those dumb ads, in fact it usually makes them hate Macs even more.
The usual responses I hear:
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
"Macs are safer? Of course they are, you don't get to do anything with it because there's none of the software I use!"
"That Mac guy looks arrogant, not sure why. The PC guy looks friendlier though. Hey, in fact he looks a lot like that guy on that Jon Stewart show. Now THAT'S a funny guy."
Now tell me slashdot, am I living in some bizzaro world or are Apple really shooting themselves in the foot?
(Disclaimer: Not a Mac hater myself. Long time Linux user who's seriously thinking of buying one of those nice Core 2 Duo MacBooks real soon...)
...with the former "Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!" guy.
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I would hire John Hodgman to do a series of commercials with his new Linux OS.
I don't know what kind of FUD I'd fill it up with yet.
Any ideas?
hajimemashite -him
hajimemashite -her
yoroshiku onegai shimasu. -him
hajimemashite - How do you do?
yoroshiku onegai shimasu - Nice to meet you.
Later:
arigato - thanks
Can't really hear anything else.
Wow, wrong on nearly everything. "Hajimemashite" does not mean "How do you do?", it means "Nice to meet you." If you wanted to say "How do you do?", the polite form would be "O genki desu ka?"
"Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" does not mean "Nice to meet you" as pointed out in my previous paragraph. "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" is a fairly standard phrase which roughly translated into English means, "Please treat me kindly." It's a phrase used between two people who are just about to engage in some sort of co-operative situation (maybe starting a new job or a new project at work) or more commonly between customer and a vendor. For example, I just asked my local jeweller to make some size adjustments on my new watch and once we finished discussing what I wanted and when it'd be ready for pickup, we both bowed and said to each other, "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu."
You gotta know what you're talking about before offering a translation, dude. Then again, this is Slashdot so I'm surprised someone didn't say they were actually speaking Swahili or something.
What makes it funny is that Linux richly deserves to be kicked in the nuts, that's humor man! Look it up chapter 6 paragraph 3 clearly states, "when a ernest geek or nerd, especially a ernest one, gets kicked in the nuts people will laugh." How can you argue with that?
...ok, that's harsh, but the reality is that, as his publicist put it, "Justin is movie star." Hmm... seems like he got way more exposure doing the mac ads. Movie star my ass.
"Flying-rhenquest"
-Heh, that's the coolest name for a computer I've ever heard! :)
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
Grandparent was referring to the PC ISA.
That is possibly one of the best programming jokes I've ever heard. Bravo!
Those are terribly dumbass parodies. The sound of a bottle opening says it all: too drunk to be truly funny. Fact it, MaxOS X looks more like BSD than Linux ever has done. I guess it just goes to show that the average computer-using dolt only cares about superficialities. ("They both run FVWM! Same shit, dude!")
The message seems to be that you can get more out of your digital camera, your digital video camera etc with a Mac, while there is less hassle with unnecessary concepts like viruses and drivers.
This series of ads is not about preaching the the choir. It's about converting those who don't feel emotionally attached to their computer. Apple tries to convince potential buyers to get a 1000$ Mac rather than a 500$ PC. It's that simple.
And it's working. Apple market share has been rising quickly since the introduction of the Intel line.
(Drivers are needed for a computer to work, but the end user should not need to know about them, like they don't know about memory management implementation details)
Stop the brainwash
Mac OS sort of IS a BSD isn't it? I mean, it's Unix-based and not showing the changes to the source code....that's how *BSD licenses work isn't it?
look! it's a bird, it's a plane, it's....a girl? yes, a girl browsing Slashdot on Linux
So it should really go:
Enter BSD.BSD. Hey guys.
Mac. Hey.
PC. Hey.
There is a pause. PC looks at Mac. Mac looks back at PC. They both pull evil grins, and then pounce.
Cut to fuckwitted, oh-aren't-we-clever message. Unseen, we hear roaring and BSD screaming.
BSD. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Steady guys, there's enough of me for everyone!
And she's an airhead. I prefer the big chick.
Be relentless!
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." --Fred Allen
"Pun (n.): the lowest form of humour" --Samuel Johnson, lexicographer
I have to say that I concur. And don't even think of using the "unless you thought of it yourself" rebuttal.
Does nobody think, especially after the original comment about turning into a pc, and with the lepard launch date just before vista that the pc could become a mac in the adverts and run osx and shaft vista by being much cheaper and arguably better in some ways.
Hi! I'm a PC! And i used to be a mMac!
Well, at least as an unsigned long, he can't express anything negative.
Actually Mac computers are women and should be played by a sexy actress, here's why:
- they're sexy and have nice round Windows with lots of makeup.
- they bring all kinds of gadgets with them at all times.
- they actually use their 2 hemispheres.
- they can run hot
- they don't play FIFA soccer.
- they're expensive at the store
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... And with Intel, they're now just PCs in drag?
(Disclaimer: I'm typing this on a ladyboy MacBook Pro. Which for games purposes, is currently running Windows XP. Eww!)
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Actually, you can store both pointers of a doubly-linked list in one long if you XOR them.
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And it's his agent who's the douchebag, but then again, that's her job. Seeing as how she's an agent. It's like calling someone's lawyer and asshole. Yes, AND?
Check how many projects he's involved in:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0519043/
Maybe he just decided that he can sit around and masturbate with money-based lubricant rather than be on call for more Mac ads where he has to look like a jerk.
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I was actually thinking along those lines. The Wii acts like the stereotype attention-seeking dumb blond. I get the general feeling that, if I were to meet her on the street or in a cafe (I'll assume she's reasonably clothed, since I would pretty much go "WTF" if she wasn't), I would get a negative opinion of her very quickly.
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John had a very funny bit on the daily show, where he was explaining the internet (after the "series of tubes" event). He started out with envelopes, representing packets, and said "for example, say I'm a computer..." Jon Stewart interrupted him and said "what kind of computer would you be?" After a bunch of evasive answers ("oh some kind of microcomputer"), with Jon unrelenting, he finally dropped his shoulders, sighed, and said "I'm a PC..." Hilarious.
:)
(I was kind of waiting for a reference to the commercials on the Daily Show, and they delivered
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I was thinking the same thing - maybe h could show how cool the Mac is by smoking a joint.
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Your Japanese may be fine, but your English sucks. "How do you do" is not the same as "how are you". :-)
;-)
"O-genki desu ka" (literally, "are you healthy?") is closer to "how are you?" than to "how do you do".
As for a translation of "hajimemashite" (roughly literally, "we have begun"), "nice to meet you" and "how do you do" are, at least in my opinion, equally close as translations to English idioms.
Disclaimer: English is my second language, and I'm just starting to learn Japanese.
Not quite
Everyone thinks ME-tan is cute, even though she's completely inept and freezes and so on.
Not what I want in an OS, but she is funny to watch ^_^
OK, shouldn't bite. But will. ISA as in the current PC industry standard architecture (no caps). Not the bus.
Have you even heard about the switch to Intel? My Macs can boot Windows (Boot Camp) just fine - and I can play Windows games all I want.
I thought the ad campaign was brilliant. The depiction of the mac and the pc were perfect. I don't think that Justin Log (Mac) was ever "sleazy", I thought it fit perfectly with EVERY mac user I know. The mac users I know (over two dozen) are all the "hip" style types. They have the perfect trendy outfit and have their own style or twist to what ever they do. They are the "artsy" types.
The same can be said (IMO) for the depiction of the PC. As a PC user and an occassional mac user I couldn't agree more with the ads. THAT is what is SO funny about them. It's TRUE. Most of my work and play is on a PC. It has more problems more often then the mac AND I still continue to use it. Why? because there are more out there. That IS where most of the economy of software development is. I don't mean for Mac users to get bent about that comment but it's a simple fact. FAR more windows based PCs are in use for "work related" things then macs. It's that simple. ALL of my mac user friends are Graphic Designers, PR people, or in some Printing Publishing industry. Yes, All of them.
I think the campaign was brilliant, I will be sorry to see Justin leave as the Mac but my hope is that they will continue and find someone equally appropriate to depict the mac. They (PC and Mac) are very funny.
As for YouTube satirizations? How is that ever a bad thing?
Even Negative publicity is good PR...
"...ok, that's harsh, but the reality is that, as his publicist put it, "Justin is movie star." Hmm... seems like he got way more exposure doing the mac ads. Movie star my ass."
Yes, it is a bit harsh, and Long himself has stated that he did in fact receive far more recognition from the ads. This is part of the statement from Long's publicist: "Every ad you see Justin in is for that previous time period only...There's no long-term deal with him...Justin's a movie star, not a commercial guy."
However, the statement directly contradicts what Long himself said. He was quoted by Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times: "If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth. Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials." Seems to me that his publicist should consult with her client first before saying things that could prove embarrassing for him. Or maybe her statement was scripted by Karl Rove.
I can see why Justin Long is being replaced as a Mac... especially after his interview with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
When you get paid for ads to promote a product, you promote it both on and off the screen.
I was shocked to hear him tell Jay, "I really do not know the difference between Mac and PC... They are all the same to me... I am just an actor...".
Having said that, I am a fan of Justin's movies, but he needs a lesson in product promotion.
Good god there's a lot of Mac-hate here for some reason. I'm not a Mac user. I don't own a Mac right now. I'm a Linux guy with a Thinkpad. But I can't for the life of me see what all of this is based on. People are routinely calling Apple users cult members, elitist, arrogant, immature, unprofessional... Here you are calling Apple a terrible company... Why? I don't get it.
;-)
They make reasonably nice computers. Their commercials are amusing and simply make claims that are functional, like a Mac will talk to your digital camera when a Windows PC won't without first installing a driver (often true not just of Macs but, for example, Linux as well).
It's only in response to Apple that we get these weird posts with religious overtones and claims like Apple continually making "efforts to irritate outsiders" to its "tiny church."
Very strange. Methinks the Slashdotters do protest too much. If you all feel so insecure about not having Macs, then for gods sake, just go and buy them. And then, if you really want to be cool, put Linux on them.
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Well, that's pretty stupid, because the "PC guy" in the Mac ads is a PC running Windows. Not an "open system."
... and then they built the supercollider.
Well seeing as how they are trying to make you buy the whole package ("I don't have viruses", "Look at what I was able to do with my built-in software" etc.) that would kind of defeat the purpose of their ads.
A "news" story about commercials! Lame.
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people like me found the PC dude much more amusing and likeable than the scruffy, elitist asshole Mac guy?
What are you guys like, exactly?
Why would you call Mac an asshole? He's done nothing but stand there and be likeable.
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>>"O-genki desu ka" (literally, "are you healthy?") is closer to "how are you?" than to "how do you do". And that's the problem with literal translations. "What's up, dog?" literally translated to another language would not come across with the same meaning. Familiarity isn't always just a part of the words. It's both the phrase and knowing the context of the phrase. "How do you do," might mean the same in some context as "What's up, dog?" but the former is much more generic and better suited to more types of greetings. It's probably formal enough for use when greeting the President or a big boss in a company. Japanese has a lot of structure in conversation, where one phrase means one thing when said as a greeting, and another when asked in conversation. Which is all thrown out in actual conversational Japanese, but that is another topic.
I don't know anyone who actually likes those dumb ads, in fact it usually makes them hate Macs even more.
How come everyone you know hates macs?
And, philosophically speaking, if they hate macs, what mac ad wouldn't fuel their hatred?
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
"Macs are safer? Of course they are, you don't get to do anything with it because there's none of the software I use!"
Don't they realise that they're making asses of themselves?
By bashing the product advertised with old, mindless clichés, they show that they clearly have an irrational hatred of this company, it's product, it's advertisements, that has nothing to do with these things themselves. Especially since the content of the ad explains that these clichés are not true. There's a specific ad about games, and another about macs running all the business software you need. What kind of person blindly ignores that and spews hatred of a company's hired actor?
"That Mac guy looks arrogant, not sure why.
Maybe it makes these PC using, mac hating people feel bad about themselves to see the mac user shown as a young, attractive guy, and the PC user as a older, fat and nerdy guy?
Since the point of the ad is to show that macs are better, and they clearly have an emotional interest in their indentity being defined by their computer of choice (hence the hate), I could see how he would seem arrogant to them.
You can't take the sky from me...
Yeah, I can see your point - I am just a recent convert to the Mac and I still have PCs all over my house. But then again I really prefer it if I could keep games away from my serious business/work system. The way Windows slows down after a while (especially with installing and removing games).. I would love that button IBM put on some systems - instant system "reset". Have BootCamp instantly overwrite the Windows-partition with a "clean" ISO (ready-to-use). The games that are on the Mac like World of Warcraft etc work beautifully - and much better than on my PCs. I am talking about stability and multi-tasking here.
I use such diverse systems as AMD64 X2, P4, Core Duo, G5 and G3s - so we are not talking Apples and oranges hardware/performance wise.
yea, they need some other pop-like figure to replace him.. it happens to all hipsters after a while.. i mean, Quiet Riot was once the shit, but obviously people think they're lame today minus a few exceptions.. gotta keep it fresh and hip.. i think i'll stick to being a Geek, and keep my PC..
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Not showing changes to the source code? That only happens if a company like say Microsoft uses BSD licensed code in their system. I think GPL zealots forget companies misuse GPL licensed code in their products. Some have been caught.
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If you think all BSD licensed code is hidden, please visit http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ or http://www.midnightbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi or any other BSD project and look for "web" or "cvsweb" on their websites. You can look at the code right now. This doesn't just apply to operating systems. My blogging website code is under BSD license (although the windows client is GPL), http://justjournal.cvs.sourceforge.net/justjourna
If you were referring to the idea that the GPL is better as companies can't use the code in private products, consider that they can break the license and do that anyway. They might get caught, but not always. The code has protections under the law, but it is not safe or FREE by any means. Its merely free.
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There's something in the news/TV/content business called an "evergreen"... something that's just as newsworthy tomorrow as it was yesterday and is today. We've finally hit the slownewsday(tm pending) that brings those things out of the woodwork.
Yup, and so when you see Colbert running a Tek Jansen sequence, or showing some green screen contributions, or even having a whole show dedicated to a theme (what's happening to the young generation?!), it's because it's a slow news day -- or they can't pull a complete show together for some reason -- and they're just throwing in evergreen filler.
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That is, to say plainly, a streaming pile of BS.
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I look at my Mac and Justin Long isn't what comes to mind. He's a dork.
Maybe Catherine Zeta-Jones. Mature, sexy, fun. Looks really nice. Makes me want to fool around with her.
On the other hand, John Hodgman makes a terrific PC. Well, except my PCs aren't very funny. :(
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"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
Uh, anyone over the age of 25? People who have money to buy a Mac because they don't spend it all on pizza and pot?
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Most of them end up with Linux being the one that gets bashed on.
That's appropriate - most Linux machines won't even boot without a considerable amount of bash(1)-ing.
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Isn't this the entire point of the Mac image? "Pay a little more, the quality is supposed to be higher"? Third Parties (All the ones who are probably furious at MS for ditching them?) cost far less than iPods for certain space ranges. For comparable space the Nano is overpriced.
Apple is currently doing well as the company that seriously "embraced & extended" a xNIX kernel with a unified front end, and unified marketing. Linux needs some unity to begin to be a serious force. There's an article that MS did well with "multiple product editions to meet different needs". I'd like to see a cohesive suite of perhaps 5 Linux versions marketed as a unit by companies with the money muscle to survive a bruise or two. (Sun?)
I am inching my way toward my first Linux system, for which I completely credit SlashDot. I don't have too many fancy peripherals, so I stand a good chance.
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I thought these commercials were amusing -- not very informative, but amusing. These ads had zero influence on my conversion from Windows to Mac...the ability to boot into Windows for those few applications (Quicken, Visual Studio, etc) did. I guess for the masses (aka - avg computer john and jane) these might work, but for the rest of us they're just fluff.
I think there out to be a commercial with those two yammering on and on about which one costs least, then slowly people start walking by in more and more numbers, all wearing ubuntu hats and tshirts... then the camera pans over to a penguin handing out free disks, giggling to itself.
Karma: Bad is the liberal way of saying this guy won't drink the kool aid here on slash dot. I wear my Karma with pride
In Raising Genius he plays son to Milton in a back story to Office Space and the Mac ads.
For the non-Japanese-speakers, the bit he says when she first walks up is just "Hello, nice to meet you" or near enough, and the bit at the end that she says is "Hey ! Hey ! Who's that guy ? Isn't he kinda geeky/uncool ?", to which Hodgman responds "Bonjourno", proving her point.
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Justin Long is a "sleazy hipster"??? But ... but ... the guys who started Apple were "sleazy hipsters". And Apple products remain much longer on cool (and higher in quality as they always were).
Who else would complain but PC owners concerned about the fact that they're driving Fnords?
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Nice example of execution with indirect addressing.
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
I use both Macs and PCs. Recently I decided to discontinune using Windows and switch to Linux and Mac OS X. I dislike Microsoft so at first I liked the ads. It kind of goes with the terratory that in an ad, you potray your product to be better than the competition. But here is the way I see it. The PC guy is frumpy, kind of a nerd, has trouble expressing himself, and is an older looking fellow. The Mac guy looks younger, more physically fit, and has lots of snappy comebacks and one liners. I have trouble relating to either of them. I am 52 years old, so I have trouble relating to the younger Mac guy. It seems to me that the ad is targeted at younger people in their teens or twenties. What might have more impact would be two people of similar age and build. The PC guy can be uptight and worried about viruses, and focused on Microsoft products and details, The Mac guy can be focused on how the Mac can be used for lots of fun purposes as well as serious business uses. The Macs are expensive and have to be more than toys. Anyway, I feel its hard for me to identify with the Mac guy because he is so much younger and has an attitude. Some young people with atitudes make me uncomfortable. The smugness bothers me. It looks to me like the Mac guy is a "fanboy". He acts as if the Mac is better, "Because", and doesn't have to back up his position with facts. More substance would help the ad make more of an impact. I also think the ads miss the mark. A PC running Linux is a wonderful thing. A PC running Windows is a waste of the hardware. I think the ad might be more to the point if they renamed the PC guy, a Windows Guy. That would be more to the point. I think that is my most important criticism. It isn't so much that Macs are better than PCs. It is more like Windows is a lousy operating system and any other operating system running on PC hardware would be an improvement. Also, the new Intel based Powerbooks are PCs. Given that, the ad is off target. Also, what I liked about PowerPC based Macs was that they were RISC (reduced instruction set) machines, and as such tended to be more efficient (each clock executed one instruction). The PCs, build with Intel or compatible processors are CISC machines where an instruction would take as many clock cycles are were required, therefore less efficient. Considering that, a certain degree of pride in the PowerPC Macs was justified (IMHO). With the advent of Intel based Macs, the ad would have to have two avitars. A PC guy and a PC guy. That would reduce the power of the message. More correctly they would need a Windows PC guy and a Mac OS X PC guy.
I think Hodgman will end up playing both parts.
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I wish I had mod points for a good "Romeo is Bleeding" reference
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire.
At the end of the clip, the girl says something that sounds like "tarento otakupokunai?" or "Doesn't this guy look like a geek?" Seems odd to me that the girl would use the word "talent" when referring to the PC guy in an advert.... unless I misheard it. Kinda breaks the fourth wall. ("Talent" is a word used and abused in Japanese to refer to someone on TV, who may or may not necessarily have any real talent.)
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Am I the only one who thinks Justin Long seems like a nice kid who plays a good straightman (which is what he's really supposed to be) to Hodgeman?
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Please be careful. Most people don't actually hate Macs. They/we just hate Mac users.
According to Justin Long's website, this story is bogus.
Justin Long today on his web site refuted stories that he is no longer playing the Mac in Apple's popular "Get A Mac" ads where he appears as the "Mac". Read post by Justin Long at: http://www.justinlong.net/ubbthreads7/ubbthreads.p hp?ubb=showflat&Number=9155&PHPSESSID=a621fe48e73f 2b9090797af984959606
The moved Justin Long's thread to the main 'Portal Page'. Here is the corrected URL: http://www.justinlong.net/