Have they actually shown it on TV yet though?
Working at Apple, I don't know one customer who wants to go back to Tiger. Keep in mind, people don't go online to post compliments, they typically make complaints. That fact alone isn't representative of the overall reaction to any particular product (in this case Leopard). Most of the customers (actually, in my case all of my customers) LOVE Leopard over Tiger, especially the PPC users who have noticed a double in speed increase.
Leopard installed fine on my Mac Pro. No complaints here. Vista on my slave drive, well, that's another story.
Ellen Feiss
Working at Apple... Most of the customers (actually, in my case all of my customers) LOVE Leopard over Tiger, especially the PPC users who have noticed a double in speed increase.
I'm a PPC (G4) user and I would love some of that double speed.
Have they actually shown it on TV yet though?
Hmm, maybe they should fix the glitches in Leopard before putting out any more of these.
Oh Apple, Why go back to these ads! Make an advert showing people what you can actually do with Leopard like the iPhone ads. Not just stating how much you are better. Prove it!!!
me too im getting quite pissed off with apple, I've just bought a new macbook pro and installed leopar and now apperture won't work - supposedly one of their 'pro' apps well its not good enough i'm a photographer and i need it to work! the update did nothing!
It is a multi billion-dollar corporation.
Yes, it's on frequently. Maybe I watch too much TV (yeah, OK, I do), but I've probably seen it a dozen times.
It was on Heroes or somesuch last week. The "pro" ad is on youtube now.
Gees, I get so tired of hearing people say this, so pardon me for the all-caps, but...
APPLE ALREADY TRIED THAT AND IT DIDN'T WORK.
Remember the ads with the guy on the airplane? There were others like that too and many, many more before where Apple tried to show why the Mac was better and there isn't a shred of evidence that such an approach ever made a dent in the Mac market share. In fact, those ads appear to have produced the opposite effect.
On the other hand, Mac sales have been steadily going up over the last couple years and the more they attack Windows and PCs, the better they seem to do. How can you claim the PC-and-Mac or the switcher ads were not the way to go when they are showing results?
Ads have to play down to the lowest common denominator. They have to be written for monkeys, couch surfers, the short-attention span MTV generation. They have to entertain, catch your interest and get people talking. Like it or not, these current ads do that. 30 seconds of showing how awesome stacks or Quick View is... well, I kinda doubt that's going to get the sort of reaction Apple's marketing people want.
There are a lot of people here who watch a bunch of commercials and then declare themselves marketing experts.
Have they actually shown it on TV yet though?
The Windows bashing ads arent to my taste but if they work, whatever, its a business.
The BSOD icons for Windows machines however... that I really dont like. Yeah, a joke is a joke, but make it an easter egg not a default icon on a final piece of software. The fact that the joke is as old as the internet and I havent seen a BSOD for a long time aside, its unprofessional.
Hmm. Considering there are a good number of people who want to go back to Tiger... sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
I guess this means microsoft can put the beach ball of death in windows 7
It has been a long time since the last one, sort of hoped they had stopped them.
I would prefer it if they would just advertise the good points about Leopard rather than bash Vista.
Hmm. Considering there are a good number of people who want to go back to Tiger... sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Oh Apple, Why go back to these ads! Make an advert showing people what you can actually do with Leopard like the iPhone ads. Not just stating how much you are better. Prove it!!!
I guess this means microsoft can put the beach ball of death in windows 7
Except look at what the iPhone ads spurred: terrible iPod touch ads that are more like a seizure than informative.