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I thought I CAN DO ANYTHING was great.
TREE TRIMMING was a bit weak. Wished they would have re-released last years again.
TREE TRIMMING was a bit weak. Wished they would have re-released last years again.
EVERYBODY likes PC better. Even steve made some sort of quote about it to Bill Gates or something.
Oh yea, PC uses a mac.
I wonder if john hodmen (PC) gets called PC by friends and family now.
Hopefully this signals the end of these pointless character assassinations about Vista and the beginning of some actual Apple advertisements about how great Apple is.
Sick and tired of hearing Vista is crap this or crap that... Give it a break already, I use Vista and its fine.
I want the Apple porn advertisements back... where they make the products look so seducingly good.
Here's to the better times coming.
Sick and tired of hearing Vista is crap this or crap that... Give it a break already, I use Vista and its fine.
I want the Apple porn advertisements back... where they make the products look so seducingly good.
Here's to the better times coming.
Nice ads. But the Microsoft 'I'm a PC' ads really do damage these significantly. It was excellent counter advertising.
Yes, for running the exact same concept for 5 or 6 years.
Blue screens haven't been seen since XP came out, all those years ago. Get over it?
I love these. Just goes to show how creative Apple's marketing team is.
Yes, for running the exact same concept for 5 or 6 years.
Blue screens haven't been seen since XP came out, all those years ago. Get over it?
Wouldn't that be their Renderman engine with Maya(while Maya is not proprietary of Pixar)? Just curious
I think they have used Maya before but usually they go with their own software called marionette.
I'm in agreement with everyone...the bunny one was really great. I just liked the part where PC could float and especially make things super fast with his hands.
Well it may help if your boss owns Pixar and Disney. It is an Apple + Disney + Pixar + ABC combination. IF you haven't noticed most of the New TV Shows with the Digital Claymation effects seems to be on Disney, and ABC Channels. It is probably a custom app/plugin for Pixar Rendering or something.
Are you out of your mind? All Microsoft's ads did was show the public even more how out of touch they are with reality. They were trying to act like a victim who's been bullied and it just came across as fake and forced. "I'm a PC and I've been turned into a stereotype"? That does not have anywhere near the amount of entertainment value or thought-provoking content that Apple's ads have.
Also, the ads have been running for less than 3 years and blue screens do still exist in XP and even Vista. Are they less common than in Windows 98? Yes, but they still rear their ugly heads.
With that said, I thought the Tree Trimming commercial was only average. But since PC is so likable, it's good that they're giving Mac some nice things to say while PC acts like a child. The I Can Do Anything ad was brilliant, though! I'm a big fan of cynical humor and I was really hoping PC would do something nasty to the bunny as I was watching it. Pushing the snowman head on him was very creative and had me laughing out loud.
Well to be fair, at least the PC ads are something new and original. How predictable are the Apple ads??? They just make out the PC guys to me some inadequate nerd while the Mac guy is hip and cool....I would be more interested in actually marketing OS X and its benefits.
Its amazing how traumatized some people were by the Blue screens of death.... Do not worry the new Macbook pros now come with Black screens of death....but no doubt that its "same same but different" cause its a Mac
Both systems crash, one system is designed to be run on hundreds of configurations and the other on about 6, frankly i am a apple fanboy but i also give MS credit where it is due.The bunny one is great though.
Wow
Wow, nice animation but the ads just seem pointless. The rabbit one is a little better than the tree one, marginally...
Wow, nice animation but the ads just seem pointless. The rabbit one is a little better than the tree one, marginally...
I'm not in the market for a new Mac just yet, (we'll see what comes with MacWorld,) but I wish I could buy a set of Mac and PC ornaments at the Apple store.
Yeah, I was thinking PC would kick the rabbit. I guess that's why I'm not in advertising.
I think the Bunny spot was a little mean spirited. I don't recall PC ever being mean before. Pathetic, yes. Whiney, yes. Mean, no.
I would buy those in a heartbeat (actually probably not because my wife wouldn't let me and they'd probably be at least $30, but still, I'd love to have some!).
jW
Hehe, these are pretty funny, and dare I say it, I even think windows fanboys (the ones with a sense of humour, so all 3 of them) would find these funny. Subtle taking the high road with "Tree trimming", though, sneaky
Here's to a new year where these Get a Mac Ads stop being negative about Windows and positive about Apple. Please, Apple. Lets hear "Here's what Apple can do, which PC can't or can do but is impossible hard". Less of the Vista bashing!
My two cents
I see absolutely nothing wrong in the "Get a Mac" ad campaign Apple's been running. They tout the benefits of using OSX while showing the flaws of Windows in a light hearted way. And let's face it, Microsoft doesn't exactly display admirable business practices in any segments of their business, so why are you feeling so uneasy for a company that has over 95% marketshare in the computer industry? Whether you're a business person or not, if you think you have a better product, and everyone's attention is on the big guy, you have to speak a little louder so you are noticed. Apple's done a good job at being heard with this campaign without being crass.
Well to be fair, at least the PC ads are something new and original. How predictable are the Apple ads??? They just make out the PC guys to me some inadequate nerd while the Mac guy is hip and cool....I would be more interested in actually marketing OS X and its benefits.
Its amazing how traumatized some people were by the Blue screens of death.... Do not worry the new Macbook pros now come with Black screens of death....but no doubt that its "same same but different" cause its a Mac
The bunny one is great though.
I give Microsoft no credit for their I'm a PC ad campaign. How can you call that new and original when the whole campaign is directly taken from "Hi, I'm a mac, and I'M A PC", from Apple's campaign.
Of course Apple's ads are more predictable, they've been running for 3 years, you know it's an Apple ad from the time you see the 2 guys on screen. The very fact that you recognize it's an apple ad means it's working. There is still a measure of unpredictability when you see them, because you never know exactly what they're going to do or say, also they are short enough, and varied enough to not be annoying. Let's see how you feel after watching all those bikers, musicians, divers, race car drivers and Seinfelds scream, I'm a PC for 3 years.
I am not surprised that this is their best attempt at countering Apple's ads either. Microsoft excels (no pun intended) at copying the competition (not just Apple), or buying them outright, it's what they do best.
