New 'Get A Mac' Ad Posted: Goodwill

[MacRumors]

Apple has posted an additional holiday Get A Mac ad to their website, called Goodwill. In the ad, PC and Mac "pledge" to put aside their differences for the holidays, even though PC believes that the Mac engages in frivolous pursuits such as "home movies and blogs."

Nevertheless, the two hug in the end, and live happily ever after.

[zephead]

Now isn't that just one of those things that makes you feel all gooey inside?

[tangerineyum]

Originally Posted by zephead

Now isn't that just one of those things that makes you feel all gooey inside?

Dont you mean, "feel all GUI inside?" Bwahaha. Im done now.

[SakeBalboa]

Originally Posted by tangerineyum

Dont you mean, "feel all GUI inside?" Bwahaha. Im done now.

i LOLed

[jimN]

Originally Posted by tangerineyum

Dont you mean, "feel all GUI inside?" Bwahaha. Im done now.

*DRUM BEAT*

I just groaned

[MrSmith]

Originally Posted by SakeBalboa

i LOLed

Originally Posted by jimN

I just groaned

And the OP Bwahahad.

What's that?

[Squonk]

Originally Posted by tangerineyum

Dont you mean, "feel all GUI inside?" Bwahaha. Im done now.

Originally Posted by jimN

*DRUM BEAT*

Make that a rim shot!

GUI inside - hilarious!!!!

[mkrishnan]

Awww, that was too cute.

[Sublime]

awww shucks...

[OdduWon]

cool. they finally made their peace

[iKwick7]

I think I'm gonna cry!

[Kane.Elson]

The PC won't be so happy when he sees the mac holiday sales figures

[Ha ze]

very good ad, i think it's one of the better ones

[EricNau]

I wonder if, perhaps, it might be the last in the series. It seems like a good place to end.

...Just a thought.

[MacQuest]

The only hug I'd give to windows pc is a bear hug.

Until he stopped breathing.

That has nothing to do with John Hodgeman BTW, and everything to do with despising gates, microsoft, and windows... in that order.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GoneFishing]

Originally Posted by MacQuest

The only hug I'd give to windows pc is a bear hug.

Until he stopped breathing.

That has nothing to do with John Hodgeman BTW, and everything to do with despising gates, microsoft, and windows... in that order.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey man, Gates is doing a lot more in helping the world than any government in the world through his Bill & Melisa Gates Foundation. Props to him.

on the other hand, MS needs a marketing type leader, not technological savvy one like Gates.

[MacQuest]

Originally Posted by GoneFishing

hey man, Gates is doing a lot more in helping the world than any government in the world through his Bill & Melisa Gates Foundation. Props to him.

Hey man, I know of lots of criminals who ended up making a lot of money through their criminal activities and then ended up "giving back" to the communities, organizations, causes, etc. in order to try and detract from the fact that the money that they were able to obtain, was ill gotten to begin with. You ever here of the mob, mafia, etc? Big givers, and big criminals. Blood money, if you will.

In the case of gates & co. though, its "blood, sweat, and tears of others' innovations money".

Am I downplaying the fact that gates is doing much needed good now because he can?

No.

Am I absolving him of the criminal business activities that he and his company have engaged in for more than a decade [and have subsequently been convicted for three times within the past five years by three countries - U.S. in 2001, European Union in 2004, and South Korea in 2005] and now finance his "philanthropy"?

HELL NO.

Doing good is good.

Being able to do good because you did bad. Not so much.

Originally Posted by BenRoethig

I hope this is the last one of these adds. The only thing they have done is make the Mac look like a computer for snotty teenagers

This is hilarious. It's just like all the people who said that the '02 "Switch" campaign did nothing and actually made Macs look bad because they come across as not serious computers, or too simple.

Meanwhile, I was posting that it was working and witnessing people switching consistently. I even talk to people today about the fact that I've watched the switcher movement go from the average 2-3 visits for a switcher to switch back in '02-'03, to 1-2 visits back in '04-'05, to the 1st or same visit this year with the switch to Intel, and now switcher apprehension is down to such a minimum that they come in knowing that their gonna get a Mac because they have they have the safety net of being able to run windows if they have to.

That's when I drive the last nail into the windows coffin by asking, "What do you need windows for, other than microsoft Office?".

At the point, 80% of the time [I'm not exaggerating either], people realize they don't need windows at all, just Office.

That's when they walk out with a Mac and Office for Mac, basically waving the finger to windows all together.

That happens on average 2-4x a day, 5 days a week.

[Donz0r]

Originally Posted by MacQuest

Hey man, I know of lots of criminals who ended up making a lot of money through their criminal activities and then ended up "giving back" to the communities, organizations, causes, etc. in order to try and detract from the fact that the money that they were able to obtain, was ill gotten to begin with. You ever here of the mob, mafia, etc? Big givers, and big criminals. Blood money, if you will.

In the case of gates & co. though, its "blood, sweat, and tears of others' innovations money".

Am I downplaying the fact that gates is doing much needed good now because he can?

No.

Am I absolving him of the criminal business activities that he and his company have engaged in for more than a decade [and have subsequently been convicted for three times within the past five years by three countries - U.S. in 2001, European Union in 2004, and South Korea in 2005] and now finance his "philanthropy"?

HELL NO.

Doing good is good.

Being able to do good because you did bad. Not so much.



This is hilarious. It's just like all the people who said that the '02 "Switch" campaign did nothing and actually made Macs look bad because they come across as not serious computers, or too simple.

Meanwhile, I was posting that it was working and witnessing people switching consistently. I even talk to people today about the fact that I've watched the switcher movement go from the average 2-3 visits for a switcher to switch back in '02-'03, to 1-2 visits back in '04-'05, to the 1st or same visit this year with the switch to Intel, and now switcher apprehension is down to such a minimum that they come in knowing that their gonna get a Mac because they have they have the safety net of being able to run windows if they have to.

That's when I drive the last nail into the windows coffin by asking, "What do you need windows for, other than microsoft Office?".

At the point, 80% of the time [I'm not exaggerating either], people realize they don't need windows at all, just Office.

That's when they walk out with a Mac and Office for Mac, basically waving the finger to windows all together.

That happens on average 2-4x a day, 5 days a week.

Yeah a lot more people are switching, that's great b/c word of apple is spreading, but the commercials could definitely be better

[twoodcc]

Originally Posted by OdduWon

cool. they finally made their peace

yeah...lol.....i liked it

[Rocketman]

This is what happens when you put a human (who wears short pants to work) in charge of a company with $10,000,000,000 in cash laying around, and counting . . .

Rocketman

[Texas04]

this must have eaten up their bandwith.. their website was going pretty slow before this...

[p0intblank]

That ad made me smile so much!!! Haha, I loved it!

Happy holidays, everyone! (Get a Mac.)

[Soulman]

Bah... Hum Bug! This should not be the last pc & Mac commercial.

[mainstreetmark]

"Lets pull it into Hug Harbor"?!

[jessica.]

hahahah "Let's pull it into hug harbor." That is almost as good as "hug it out bitch!"