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Apple's 'Get a Mac' Commercials Discontinued?

Probably a good idea on Apple's part.

It wouldn't have be long before Microsoft, Google, Motorola, et al made parodies of iPhone vs. Nexus One/Droid/etc. (iPhone is a cardboard cutout of Justin Long with a Missing plug-in icon where the face should be) as Nexus One shows full interactive Flash content
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Yup, now that Windows 7 is out and is rock solid, their ads would have to take on a new direction. Not to mention, as OSX becomes more popular, those writing viruses will begin to target it, and then many of the PC misrepresentations given in the ads will come back to bite them in the arse.
 
Of the more recent ones, I liked the one about the launch of windoze 7 with the montage of statements over the years claiming how safe and stable this new version will be.
 
It's time to move on, but those were excellent ads that did a great job for Apple and helped it a) increase market share; and b) become more visible to the consumer market. Everybody talked about those ads, and they inspired parodies and copies from other companies, and the ads won awards.

You can't ask more from a successful ad campaign.
 
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Entopia7 said:
Michael73 said:
Of this you can be sure...

Whatever comes next won't involve Jerry Seinfeld eating a churro and bumping into Steve Jobs trying on shoes at the local mall :D
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You didn't find those things hilarious? Granted, they didn't do anything for Microsoft, but they were quite entertaining. I mean, come on! Jerry Seinfeld asks Bill Gates to create a computer with a creamy nuggat center. It doesn't get much better than that, as far as weird, CEO+comedian extended commercials go.
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Yeah, those were really funny. It's been so long since I went to MS' website and watched those.

I don't really go there anymore, at least not untill I can find IE for my Windows 95 virtual machine :)
 
mysticbluebmw said:
Yup, now that Windows 7 is out and is rock solid, their ads would have to take on a new direction. Not to mention, as OSX becomes more popular, those writing viruses will begin to target it, and then many of the PC misrepresentations given in the ads will come back to bite them in the arse.
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LOL, still trying to push the security through obscurity lie. How many years of repeating this lie will it take before people learn no one is listening.
 
It was already time to discontinue them. They were fun at the beginning, but the last were ... eh, anyway, it seems, the age of Macintosh is over, right now we are in the age of Apple iGadgets
 
I hope Apples not going to give up the Mac Line. There really focusing on the ipod, iphone and ipad.
 
About time. That ad campaign got old a long time ago. Talk about flogging a dead horse.
 
Good, these ads were getting a bit long in the tooth. Plus, they're borderline lying about Windows IMHO (especially now that 7 is out).

I'd like to see ads more focused on what Apple is doing right, and I would love if they had John Hodgman giving the walk-throughs rather than a disembodied hand...
 
Am I the only one that cringed at those ads? Their air of smugness gave genuine Apple product users a bad name. They weren't even technically accurate most of the time (in a way that will come back to bite them).
 
Yamcha said:
I'm actually really glad they are gone.. Those ads were annoying, and pretty untrue, at least from my PC experience.. I'm a PC Enthusiast, I have never experienced a blue screen of death, or crashes for that matter on Windows.. I switched to mac.. but I've still found those ads annoying because Apple takes shots at Microsoft, and Microsoft doesn't really do anything about it.. Although Microsoft did make some Windows 7 ads a while back showing how affordable PC's are..
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If you never experienced the blue screen of death you are not a hard core windows user. First of all, every windows user ho defends to the teeth the OS acknowledges this. O and the popularity card, pls, mac may not be bigger than the windows market but don't you think does viruses may have started if that were true, I mean popularity with the mac is well to the point were heaters with virus creation experience should have surfaced
 
I LOVED the ads. The only 'good' thing is i haven't seen them in a while and thus they have faded a bit.

I have a PC Craptop and hate the annoyingness of things not working, "new updates" after you just updated. hate hate hate PC crap.
 
MrCubes said:
Am I the only one that cringed at those ads? Their air of smugness gave genuine Apple product users a bad name. They weren't even technically accurate most of the time (in a way that will come back to bite them).
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They were completely accurate, though not to every single user of Windows, but as a whole they told the truth. They did not give Apple users a bad reputation, that was something Windows users gave them years earlier and so if you had that built-in prejudice you then blamed the ads for doing something you already believed in.

Those ads were true, effective, famous, award-winning and copied by everybody (the perfect proof of their effectiveness).

They were criticized on MacRumors, but that's what MacRumors is for: to attract people who love to criticize Apple even if Apple is handing out candy and eternal life ("it's tooo sweeeet!").
 
They were getting passed it. Time for a new advertising theme. On the whole, they were entertaining and highlighting OSX / Apple PCs strong points.
 
Entopia7 said:
You didn't find those things hilarious? Granted, they didn't do anything for Microsoft, but they were quite entertaining. I mean, come on! Jerry Seinfeld asks Bill Gates to create a computer with a creamy nuggat center. It doesn't get much better than that, as far as weird, CEO+comedian extended commercials go.
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Yes, I can certainly say that of all the commercials I have ever seen featuring a company CEO talking with a stand-up comedian... those ones were the best. :eek:
 
NebulaClash said:
They were completely accurate, though not to every single user of Windows, but as a whole they told the truth. They did not give Apple users a bad reputation, that was something Windows users gave them years earlier and so if you had that built-in prejudice you then blamed the ads for doing something you already believed in.

Those ads were true, effective, famous, award-winning and copied by everybody (the perfect proof of their effectiveness).

They were criticized on MacRumors, but that's what MacRumors is for: to attract people who love to criticize Apple even if Apple is handing out candy and eternal life ("it's tooo sweeeet!").
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thejadedmonkey said:
Thank god, I found them insulting, annoying, and partially untrue.
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They were a key component in Apple's strategy that helped them sell record numbers of Macs (especially in a recession) and outpace the rest of the industry several years running. Not only were the ads so effective, they also earned several awards during their run.

You can hate them if you like, it'll just be a statement about your tastes. But ignoring their effectiveness is sheer folly.
 
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