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Apple Ends Today's Mac Event With Return of Totally Jealous PC Guy
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Somebody noticed the irony? Microsoft transformed its business into a cloud and service business - while Apple invented or transformed ... nothing!! (During the time of ms transformation).
Apple just dreams of becoming a service company. There isn‘t even a toolchain for Apple devices to create services - compared to MS where a docker container is nothing more that hitting an option button.
While Microsoft tries to conquer the world, Apple created an island. Far away from open standards and far away from anything other than Apple. Apple silicon paves the way to become even less compatible with anything out there.
Apple just dreams of becoming a service company. There isn‘t even a toolchain for Apple devices to create services - compared to MS where a docker container is nothing more that hitting an option button.
While Microsoft tries to conquer the world, Apple created an island. Far away from open standards and far away from anything other than Apple. Apple silicon paves the way to become even less compatible with anything out there.
There were many throwback references today! Besides this obvious cameo of Hodgeman, the video in the beginning reminded me a lot to the Think different / here is to the crazy ones… campaign and then all these rainbow Apple gradients…!
Whilst the absence of Justin Long as Mac was referenced “oh you’re all quiet now” with us the viewer playing the part instead, they really should have had him make an appearance in hipster athletic gear, Airpods in, smugly silent, and shrugging nonchalantly whilst rolling his eyes. It was always the duo that made the ads work back in the day, just after the Intel switch.
It doesn't ring true though for macs with intel chips, because my $3000 macbook pro is always burning like 30W, whereas my HP laptop does 3-5W.
Perhaps they’ll get the young woman who looked like she’d enjoyed something right before they shot the commercial.
I remember! Think she was called Ellen Feiss.
I dunno, it was always Hodgman that made the ads, that gave them their charm (yes, despite being the oh-so-uncool PC). So I’m fine without Justin Long.
It depends on how open the Apple Silicon macs are. If we can run a JVM on them, they'll do fine. If they lock it down like iOS, then yeah, Apple is screwed and little software will run on them (and iOS Apps are garbage - I have never once wanted to run an iOS App on my Mac - plenty of times I wanted to run apps available on the Mac on my iPhone, though.)
My Raspberry Pi (which is ARM, not Intel, based) has worked great as a cheap little development server. It runs Python, Nginx, and Postgresql - what else does a real server need to do?
Hodgman always had the easier role, Long had to play it straight and quote all the specs while still being friendly, while Hodgman could do all the outlandish, funny stuff (in a geeky way). The two of them worked very well together, and it was a different kind of campaign simply because they seemed like two friends talking about things instead of competitors trying to tear each other down. Just look at the Samsung ads, always snarking at Apple until they copy them...it's just not nearly as effective or inviting.
I doubt they will be doing another set of these, Apple is still using Intel chips and will be for a couple years. A one off is a humorous thing in a presentation, but it's going to step on toes with people they have to work with still. It will be interesting when the more powerful chips come out next year...I suspect we'll see a midsize tower with some real grunt to it that will knock some socks off. And, the next Mac Pro will be a beast...if Apple can make multiprocessor systems it's going to blow people away.
I bought a Mac Mini a few months ago as my 2008 Mac Pro power supply was dying, with the intent of keeping it a couple years until Apple sorts out their computers. I'm looking forward to seeing the benchmarks on these in the next couple weeks, that's really when we'll see how they perform, and if they are as good at memory handling as they claim (16GB of RAM really sounds small but could be no big deal if it's super efficient). Today was pretty exciting, these are just the first tiny steps and Apple released some of the best computers out there in their classes, so lots more good stuff will be coming.
That was Dell, dude. As in, "Dude, you're getting a Dell!"
At least for now, until Apple completed transition into Mac Pro level, they can mock Intel with pleasure.
But honesty I quite concerned the future of openable box like Mac Pro, since Apple invented they own architecture, I doubt compatibility with off shelf parts such memory, graphic cards, PCIe interface peripheral are quite limited.
I am never buying RAM on Apple, because is very bad decision unless soldered laptop. When bought 2019 Mac Pro I customize everything I need except memory, because I am already prepared third party 4 sticks of 32GB DIMMS with more reasonable price than Apple. With RAM integrated in single Apple silicon package, it was mixed bag for me, afraid Apple would no longer allow off shelf, industry standard DIMM stick again..
Pretty funny to see this come back. A lot has changed in the computing world since those ads!
I used to work on a lot of the “Mac v PC” ad campaign for years in the early 2000’s. We used to shoot them at Sony Studios. Lots and lots of security on set. John and Justin were great guys to work with.