Microsoft Product Placement

[kockgunner]

It seem slike Microsoft is doing some product placement too. Here's a clip of a random trailer I was watching of Confessions of a Shopaholic. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/confessionsofashopaholic/), not like I would ever watch it :rolleyes:. In the right side of the picture, you can see a laptop with the Vista logo on it.

[Melrose]

What I think is funny about that is, #1, you have to see the screen to know it's Windows (otherwise you get butt-ugly Dells, Sonys and HPs - which no-one but PC fanboys can tell apart), and #2, people see it and go "It looks like Windows. What Version is it? Is it Windows?"

Apple stuff just looks like Apple. :) :apple:

[soberbrain]

Having a lit Apple logo on their laptops was a great move by Apple. You can see it clearly from across the room.

I found it strange that the PowerBook G3 had an upside down Apple. I thought it was have been noticed and deemed ridiculous before the product was even released.

[arkitect]

I found it strange that the PowerBook G3 had an upside down Apple. I thought it was have been noticed and deemed ridiculous before the product was even released.

I also never got my head around that design choice…
Never made any sense.
:o

[kockgunner]

I also never got my head around that design choice…
Never made any sense.
:o

I think it was so that when the computer was closed, the Apple would be upright according to the user's view. Was that the only computer with the upside down logo though? I thought there were more?

[arkitect]

I think it was so that when the computer was closed, the Apple would be upright according to the user's view.

I can understand the decision from a "purist" design point of view… but as a piece of free advertising it made no sense.
:p

[eleven2brett]

My old HP laptop had its logo righside up when the notebook was closed facing the user.

[ltldrummerboy]

I think I saw some product placement in those mini-documentaries about Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.

[rdowns]

I love the irony of going to an Apple site to view a clip showing a Microsoft product.

[kockgunner]

I love the irony of going to an Apple site to view a clip showing a Microsoft product.

haha.

I just thought of how cool it was for Apple to control both the hardware and software of a product. Right now, having an operating system's logo on an OEM laptop doesn't make a lot of sense.

[chagla]

What I think is funny about that is, #1, you have to see the screen to know it's Windows (otherwise you get butt-ugly Dells, Sonys and HPs - which no-one but PC fanboys can tell apart), and #2, people see it and go "It looks like Windows. What Version is it? Is it Windows?"

Apple stuff just looks like Apple. :) :apple:
yah, PC fanboys are exposed to a ghastly diversed world. whereas the mcboys can only recognize one brand/model. being such, its very difficult for them to distinguish between different make/model. i think we are in full agreement here.

[Koodauw]

I can understand the decision from a "purist" design point of view… but as a piece of free advertising it made no sense.
:p

The G3 iBook had a handle in the hinge area, and thus when you carried it by the handle, the apple logo would be facing upward, which is free advertising.