I believe that Microsoft knows that Steve Jobs has died. And he was "clearly" called "Tim". What does Tim Cook look like from behind? hmm.
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Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]
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I believe that Microsoft knows that Steve Jobs has died. And he was "clearly" called "Tim". What does Tim Cook look like from behind? hmm.
"The video was intended to be a light-hearted poke at our friends from Cupertino..."
You have no friends in Cupertino. You have no friends anywhere.
You have no friends in Cupertino. You have no friends anywhere.
Why is the platform with 4% market share making fun of the platform with 13% market share?
Is it just lower hanging fruit?
Is it just lower hanging fruit?
Tim has grey hair nowadays.
Even the most inept person at Microsoft should be able to see that.
I'm guessing that Apple is letting Samsung have that segment. The 'Phablets'
I'm guessing the name alone scared Apple away.
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Steve has no hair these days. And if you didn't notice the video is quite "inept"
This reminds me when the iPhone first came out and everyone was laughing
how it would never sell including Steve Ballmer. And if you just want to declare your ignorance to the world about technology in particular microchip fabrication and computer science just keep spouting off how there is no major innovation in the 5s especially the 64 bit thing "that's no big deal"
so clueless but you will soon understand by next month the significance just like those who did not understand the significance of the gestures and touch screen on the initial iPhone. Not to mention the M7 and fingerprint thing. I can guarantee you people over at Samsung and Microsoft are +&%#$ a brick right now hence the stupid decisions like the one microsoft made to release these
tasteless boring adds, when people's back are against the wall they do stupid things!
how it would never sell including Steve Ballmer. And if you just want to declare your ignorance to the world about technology in particular microchip fabrication and computer science just keep spouting off how there is no major innovation in the 5s especially the 64 bit thing "that's no big deal"
so clueless but you will soon understand by next month the significance just like those who did not understand the significance of the gestures and touch screen on the initial iPhone. Not to mention the M7 and fingerprint thing. I can guarantee you people over at Samsung and Microsoft are +&%#$ a brick right now hence the stupid decisions like the one microsoft made to release these
tasteless boring adds, when people's back are against the wall they do stupid things!
You're a bit special with your laptop comments
The MacBook Air is and was for a long time before the * NEW * (To Windows users) "Ultrabooks" a fully fledged laptop with a lower powered laptop CPU while those $300 eyesores used Atom processors and other worthless PDA parts because they were built to a price.
You get more for your money in terms of RAM and internal drives with thicker, heavier systems using the same CPUs as the MacBook Pro these days but for the lower end of things, those $300 laptops are still built to cost with low end everything.
It's their desktops where Apple are having a laugh. When PCs are using the same components or even faster, Apple are all form over function. If the Mac Pro and iMac are their idea of a premium priced desktop.
sure it wasn't meant to parody Jobs, oh by the way I am selling the Brooklyn bridge I can get you a really good deal!
It's also irrelevant to anyone who wants a dial on their phone. What's your point?
Not everyone wants to carry around an inconveniently large "phone." And I, for one, don't have a belt holster to contain such a device.
Just saw this. I love it. It's impossible for me to tear my eyes away from it such is the compelling morbid fascination. It's like a terrible accident like where the matador trips and ends up with a bulls horn through the eyeball and out the jawbone. You don't want to look but you can't help it.
I'm stunned. This has set the new gold standard in moronic ads. I am utterly bewildered that so many people in a company as large as microsoft would have to approve this all the way and yet it actually makes it past the first idea stage before the pencil sketches.
It's so pathetic that it makes me a little bit ashamed of being a human being by association.
This ad is as if Microsoft made an ad like this and this is the parody of that ad.
I'm stunned. This has set the new gold standard in moronic ads. I am utterly bewildered that so many people in a company as large as microsoft would have to approve this all the way and yet it actually makes it past the first idea stage before the pencil sketches.
It's so pathetic that it makes me a little bit ashamed of being a human being by association.
This ad is as if Microsoft made an ad like this and this is the parody of that ad.
Wow these must be really bad if the MR mods are calling them questionable taste.
Well in fairness they are calling them "of questionable taste" instead of the usual "in questionable taste."
Would someone please ban and remove the term "butthurt"? It's the most ridiculous and juvenile thing I have had to read online recently. "Butthurt"? Are we 12? Seriously.
here is a prediction:
6 months from now Samsung will add a motion chip like the M7
and fingerprint technology to their phones to try to keep up with Apple
6 months from now Apple still will not be interested in technology where you
"bump phones" "or wave your hand over the phone to answer a call"
Samsung will abandon the hand waving technology and try "clap on clap off"
Samsung will create a phone with a 27inch screen and call it innovation the user will have to pay extra for the clip on wheels so they can bring it with them.
How can you argue with Samsung innovation " a water proof cell phone" that only stays waterproof if it doesn't get wet, water damage not covered under the warranty.
The paid trolls on this forum will continue to rave how great their big screens are yet their girlfriends will still be dissatisfied .
6 months from now Samsung will add a motion chip like the M7
and fingerprint technology to their phones to try to keep up with Apple
6 months from now Apple still will not be interested in technology where you
"bump phones" "or wave your hand over the phone to answer a call"
Samsung will abandon the hand waving technology and try "clap on clap off"
Samsung will create a phone with a 27inch screen and call it innovation the user will have to pay extra for the clip on wheels so they can bring it with them.
How can you argue with Samsung innovation " a water proof cell phone" that only stays waterproof if it doesn't get wet, water damage not covered under the warranty.
The paid trolls on this forum will continue to rave how great their big screens are yet their girlfriends will still be dissatisfied .
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"The video was intended to be a light-hearted poke at our friends from Cupertino. But it was off the mark, and we've decided to pull it down."
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"They backfired so we pulled them."
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"They backfired so we pulled them."
A belt holster? The S4 fits fine in my wife's skinny jeans, What kind of pants are you wearing there friend?
My statement "larger then 4.0"..." can apply to 4.3, 4.5, 4.7" etc size screens. Most people aren't asking for the size of a Note 3.
"Hi, I am a MAC. And I am a PC."
Sound familiar?
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/apples-get-mac-complete-campaign-130552
back OT... I thought the video was mildly funny, but kind of long and drawn out. The joke per second ratio decidedly sucked. Microsoft should leave iphone parody to the professionals, like the one Tiger8 pointed out...
Really? MS should have hired folks that did the 'tallest iPhone yet' parody...
http://youtu.be/XNBP18nrRdw