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Why does everyone dislike these ones so much... i love them... the english is brilliant.

The're just so much funnier than the US ones... If only Americans could speak like us... its awesome.

I want to see more of these ads!!!
 
Stella said:
Maybe I've been away from the UK for too long but:

Who are they?!!!
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Mitchell & Webb are reasonably well known in the UK - they've had their own prime-time BBC sketch show and that - but they're most famous for Peep Show, which is about the only recent british comedy series people speak of in the same terms as the Office. Though Ricky Gervais says Peep Show is funnier. I don't disagree with that...

Its weird seeing a known double-act doing the ads though - I wonder whether Apple might have been better getting two comics not know for working together???
 
I for one find it interesting Apple has a similar "casual Mac" vs a "formal PC but with issues" format in all the ads.

The UK specific personalities, language, mannerisms are apparant.

What I want to know is why Apple will not admit it can ALSO do ALL that a PC can do (and UNIX/linux servers) and ONLY focus on the "home" and "personal" applications?

With this many ads one might think they would differentiate on personal apps in 70% and differentiate/comply on business apps 30% of the time. And server domination on ONE.

That would result in some serious Apple overtake.

Rocketman

"They refuse".
 
I think the atmosphere between the two British ones feels a lot less genuine than the two US guys. For example, in the Pie Chart one whenever 'Mac' says "I feel like I was there", it just feels like they're just speaking lines, it doesn't feel genuine somehow, whereas the US version sounds perfect (I still chuckle when I watch the US version of the Pie Chart ad)

The US guys capture the humour so much better. Even though they're meant to be diametrically opposed, they seem to act more naturally together. Mitchell and Webb seem very 'forced' somehow

They may grow on me, but I never really found Mitchell and Webb to be all that funny in the first place.
 
Commericals Have names?

"The ads include Tentacle, Office at Home, Restarting, Virus, Trust Mac, and Pie Chart."
Commercials with names. all along I just called them "Mac Ads" I'm just not hard core Mac enough
 

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lame

What a lame idea from Apple folks in UK. You would expect something more creative than this from Apple team. Guys in other countries can expect these ads in regional languages and actors and this will go on and on.

MS - Please come out even with a stupid ad and I will love it. We want to hear the other side too. What are you waiting for ? - VISTA??
 
Rocketman said:
I for one find it interesting Apple has a similar "casual Mac" vs a "formal PC but with issues" format in all the ads.

The UK specific personalities, language, mannerisms are apparant.

What I want to know is why Apple will not admit it can ALSO do ALL that a PC can do (and UNIX/linux servers) and ONLY focus on the "home" and "personal" applications?

With this many ads one might think they would differentiate on personal apps in 70% and differentiate/comply on business apps 30% of the time. And server domination on ONE.

That would result in some serious Apple overtake.

Rocketman

"They refuse".
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Well, since their owning the business world is in a way linked to their competition hopefully releasing decent versions of their software on teh Mac platform, I'm guessing they have to pick their battles one at a time.
 
refering back to Myspace... it seems Apple has got managed to get the actual video up on the homepage of Myspace. Roll over the clip, and you get sound.

End of the day, its mainly emo's on myspace, and they always want whats cool... one way to sell Mac's

For the Ad's, I like the fact Apple UK has their own ads now, so should see them on TV more, but the remakes of the US versions... cant admit I like them as much, but... time will tell

One Bad Duck said:
The adds also add a tad more sarcastic humour I think.

OnBaDuK
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Welcome to England :D
 
Ah!

I love these guys. Hahaha, fantastic.

For any of you who might be wondering who these guys are, type "mitchell and webb" on the YouTube search bar, I'm sure you'll find some videos of theirs.
 
I live in the US, but am British, and while I think they're funny, they seem to focus on the PC being lame much more than championing the virtues of the Mac, and an increased amount over the US ones.

As for using British actors, I remember a study about the success of the old iMac commercials with Jeff Goldblum not going down well in the UK, apparently because British people are more likely to "sold" by a familiar accent, than an American one. I'm not sure if that's true, but who can say entirely.

Either way, the positive thing is that Apple UK is even advertising at all, so that's good news!
 
gotohamish said:
As for using British actors, I remember a study about the success of the old iMac commercials with Jeff Goldblum not going down well in the UK, apparently because British people are more likely to "sold" by a familiar accent, than an American one. I'm not sure if that's true, but who can say entirely.
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Identifiably American adverts (ie. ones with accents) tend not to go down very well in the UK -*I think people just dislike the fact that the company couldn't be bothered making making something specifically for the UK. So i'm sure these new ads will be a lot more popular in the UK than the US versions would have been.

Apple UK actually advertises quite a bit though - at least ipod ads run pretty frequently, but I guess its quite a while since they've advertised the mac itself!
 
What's all this talk about awkwardness?!

Of course, I'm a bit biased because I'm a huge Mitchell & Webb fan, but that's just how their double-act is. The slight stiltedness is part of the humour as far as I'm concerned.

Much funnier than the Barclaycard adverts with the two from Green Wing.

... and may I be the first on this thread to say...

That's Numberwang!
 
Zegna said:
For any of you who might be wondering who these guys are, type "mitchell and webb" on the YouTube search bar, I'm sure you'll find some videos of theirs.
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I still tend to hand this link out in these situations as a means to answer that perennial problem, what do you get a heroin addict for Christmas?

It's probably an acquired taste but I still like those bizarre sketches of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar...

Just can't get that damned tune out of my head now.
 
The characters here are more "real" than the original adverts - sorry, I just can't get past the American accents on the original ones!
However, it's a shame that they re-used some of the original dialogue. It's miles funnier when they're allowed to use words such as "japes" "high-jinks" "monkey-business" and "capers" - exactly what the Mark character in Peep Show would have said.
In fact it would have been better if they'd used the Peep Show format - you could have had Mark downloading porn on his PC and saying "It's not wrong if I don't pay for it...it's not wrong if I don't pay for it" over and over again, while Jeremy and Super-Hans are next door using Garageband to make one of their dance tracks. "This is outrageous...this is....contagious" Would be great!



That's numberwang!
 
Growing on me - just!

I'm so used to the American originals that these take a few goes to get used to.

PC seems like a guy with tongue-in-cheek sense of humour whilst Mac seems a bit prim!

Progress of a kind - at least the UK gets to know that there's somthing called a Mac and it's alternative to PC's.

I want 'Networking' that was my fav!:)
 
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