I was almost through the list and the last video showed private. Went back through the links and saw private on the ones I had just viewed.
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Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]
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I was almost through the list and the last video showed private. Went back through the links and saw private on the ones I had just viewed.
Pretty easy to simply throw that bomb out there and not offer evidence, explanation, or anything.
Ask MSFT shareholders how happy they have been for the last ten to fifteen years. Business practices? Try making something that people WANT to buy instead of something the HAVE to buy. The biggest winners in the Microsoft world the last two decades have been the anti-virus sellers and the small shops that make a living repaving hard drives and reinstalling Windows to fix slow, crapware-ridden, bloated, and infected systems.
This is sad. First off, the videos really aren't that funny. And then for them to depict "T" with an actor wearing black and noticeably thin much as Jobs was towards his end...sad. I hope I'm wrong on the latter...
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It's sad how true these commercials are about what probably goes on at Apple HQ these days. Of course there were spoofs making fun of Apple's "new" iphones last week and so Microsoft is just stealing some comedy gold to show how absurd it is that Apple is passing off the same phone "in colors" as "new and innovative."
Apple used to be great and innovative. Now they're just milking the masses who line up to buy the next same old thing as before. Which from a business standpoint makes sense. Don't fix it if it isn't broken.
I think a lot of former Apple fans like myself were hoping Apple would continue to innovate instead of putting out the same thing for about 3 years in a row. Guess that won't happen.
From non-upgradable Mac Pros now to an iPhone 5 wrapped up in new colors and marketed as brand new, Apple is out of ideas right now.
If you've ever used or even touched a W8P you can tell the difference in quality design of interface and phone advancements. Of course the same can be said of the new BB10 devices. Meanwhile Apple is hawking old tech as new and doing nothing to keep up with the times and tech.
Apple used to be great and innovative. Now they're just milking the masses who line up to buy the next same old thing as before. Which from a business standpoint makes sense. Don't fix it if it isn't broken.
I think a lot of former Apple fans like myself were hoping Apple would continue to innovate instead of putting out the same thing for about 3 years in a row. Guess that won't happen.
From non-upgradable Mac Pros now to an iPhone 5 wrapped up in new colors and marketed as brand new, Apple is out of ideas right now.
If you've ever used or even touched a W8P you can tell the difference in quality design of interface and phone advancements. Of course the same can be said of the new BB10 devices. Meanwhile Apple is hawking old tech as new and doing nothing to keep up with the times and tech.
NEWS FLASH - Microsoft have decided to pull the videos due to the character that is supposed to resemble Steve Jobs.
Was about to leave a negative comment on YouTube and they removed them!
I live in both the Microsoft and Apple ecosystems - the former for business and the latter for pleasure. These videos are a really cheap shot, I expected better MS. Dear oh dear.
I live in both the Microsoft and Apple ecosystems - the former for business and the latter for pleasure. These videos are a really cheap shot, I expected better MS. Dear oh dear.
How come Samsung, Microsoft, and Google can't compete against this except to mock them?
If the problem is that the iPad isn't taking tablet computers seriously with a gimp / locked / walled garden OS and charging $200 to much. Why is Surface Pro a miserable flop? This is everything you want, desktop processor, desktop OS, desktop applications, and not made by idiots that think colors are cool or are obsessed over thinness and shaving off an extra 0.1 lbs.
I don't believe they were official Microsoft ads.
I've never seen one of their ads with a guy with tattoos on his arm.
I've never seen one of their ads with a guy with tattoos on his arm.
wow, the reaction on this forum is just atrocious - it's a parody ad and you iphone freaks just get all twisted up. Sheesh - the ads may be dull to you but it's hilariously accurate.
The only innovative thing which isn't really innovative just more refined is the touch ID fingerprint sensor. Everything else is not what we asked for. Worse thing is they intentionally kill off the iPhone 5 and replace it with a plastic iPhone 5. It's like putting the cMBP in plastic and saying the rMBP is it. Give me a break - get rid of the stupid plastic and just make the iPhone 6. You trickle push out incremental minor updates and it's just as pathetic as these ads.
The only innovative thing which isn't really innovative just more refined is the touch ID fingerprint sensor. Everything else is not what we asked for. Worse thing is they intentionally kill off the iPhone 5 and replace it with a plastic iPhone 5. It's like putting the cMBP in plastic and saying the rMBP is it. Give me a break - get rid of the stupid plastic and just make the iPhone 6. You trickle push out incremental minor updates and it's just as pathetic as these ads.
They probably were not ads, but only videos made by employes as an inside joke. At that level, the one I watched would be ok and I consider it funny. If it were to be a real ad then it is a total fail in achieving what advertising should accomplish.
Parodies are funny. This is not a parody, it's a trainwreck.
Trainwrecks are not funny.
iPhone 3GS was also plastic and was loved by Al'.
Please show me innovation in field of cell phones on other brands.
right... Glass. Wow.