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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?"
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.
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.
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...
Professional Dilettante
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.
There's a faster kind?
I am not a crackpot.
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.
So jeans + sweatshirt = hippie? It's clearly not we jeans-wearing people that have a problem with elitism...
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
I always thought it would be great if a penguin waddled into those commercials and bitch-slap both of them.
Don't Tread on Me
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...)
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!
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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