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Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]

Porn-Star Chick

I wish I could be the first to say the chick looks like she's straight from Porn-Star Central Casting, but, alas, I'm probably the 1,786th person to say so.
 
ricardo.hudson said:
Reminds me of the time apple used a fat old guy to symbolise windows PCs and made fun of all their shortcomings!
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I do not remember apple making fun of people that have passed away.

Plus those were very funny adds filmed with very real comedians, not bozos.
 
This doesn't appear to be a genuine MS presentation. They are much more clever and resourceful than what this lackluster video produced.

Who could forget this genuine MS in-house "commercial", "Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging"...

http://youtu.be/EUXnJraKM3k
 
NumberNine said:
You guys act like Apple is somehow perfect. I can't recall a more smug arrogant company led by a more arrogant group of senior management than Apple.

They take shots at other companies.

Seriously, get over yourselves.

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sort of like the I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads
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Um, they've earned the right to be smug. They are arrogant, and they know what you want before you do.

All Microsoft can do is, without even having a product, make videos that make fun of the other product directly.

And it wasn't even an advertisement, that's the funny part - they have NOTHING to compare it to of their own.

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Edsel said:
This doesn't appear to be a genuine MS presentation. They are much more clever and resourceful than what this lackluster video produced.

Who could forget this genuine MS in-house "commercial", "Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging"...

http://youtu.be/EUXnJraKM3k
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If you had read the article, Microsoft apologized and pulled the videos.
 
Microsoft gave this statement to The Next Web: "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."

I don't get it. How can they be so out of touch with everything?

Out of touch with innovation.
I could understand them not knowing how society would react to videos like this, but they aren't making awesome products, where their efforts should be focused.

I am tired of Microsoft sucking.
 
As others have said, the main problem is that they simply aren't funny. In fact they missed funny by quite a long way.
 
What's worse than the lameness of ms is the warcries of the fanboys. We all think apple's stuff is way better that anything their competitors can offer, but worshipping apple? This is becoming a tad annoying I must confess. No wonder I come to this forum less and less often.
 
I think repetitively showing T man the "finger" and then being added "printer" was just lame. I cannot believe MS used a marketing agency to make this, most likely a few interns got together to celebrate their WP8 lumia phones and decided to make a video. The material looked extremely below par and if MS was hoping this to go "viral" its not gonna cause its really stupid and makes them look stupid. Atleast come up with a Mac Vs PC style concept, funny - yet tasteful - yet compares the two products and their performance/capabilities.

This year would be a good start because Apple essentially repackaged their last year's phone. Just lower the price of the lumia 1020 and advertise it like nuts.
 
Regardless of the fact that this is a pathetic attempt to take the piss out of Apple, this unfunny garbage is the kind of thing that passes for comedy these days. Hey, why not make a full movie out of it, some genius studio boss somewhere would fund it!
 
While the ads don't really stir up funny, although they could be if the actors/people had a bit more emotion to them... the end result was rather boring.

As to all the people screaming for innovation, and how the new iPhones are the same old thing? Exactly what do you consider innovation?

While a bio scanner is not new to the world, in a phone that can now offer one touch security for nearly any app and soon to be web app logins is pretty nice use of tech. Currently the smartphone is a rectangle device in various sizes and thickness. I don't see the form factor changing as innovation is going to be limited by the user, humans. We have already seen the ultra small flip phones of the 90's and now were seeing the massive phablets as a throwback to the PDA's of the 80's. The difference now is color screen and a cellular radio. I don't really see that as innovation, it's simply progress and that is what is going to happen for some time to come.

Innovation doesn't happen every year. There are to many parts and pcs that limit the imagination to make certain things realistic as a consumer product your simply not going to be wow'd every year after year. While we all have the desire to see something amazing, in my opinion is simply not realistic.

2007, the original iPhone was innovation. 2010 the iPad was innovation in the sense they made a "tablet" computing device, but clearly tablet computing had been done a decade before.

Evolution of technology is what we are seeing and in my opinion until battery technology drastically changes were confined to variations of the same little box of a smartphone for some time.
 
Renzatic said:
Sure there have been. It's just that none of them have been as earth shattering as what we were seeing back before 2010.

Innovation isn't just advancement by huge leaps and bounds. It can be iterative improvement as well. Little tweaks that makes something a little better are just as important in the long run, and are usually what innovation consists of the more a technology matures.
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This might be your definition, but most widely this is regarded to be an innovation:

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peterdevries said:
Sorry, but both of you don't have any idea what innovation means and how it works in products and markets.

It seems many people here equate innovation with "this gadget has the function that I like" and that the absence of a desired function (such as NFC) means that Apple or whatever producer is not innovating.
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The term innovation can be defined as something original and new that "breaks in to" the market or into society. One usually associates to new phenomena that are important in some way. A definition of the term, in line with these aspects, would be the following: "An innovation is something original, new, and important - in whatever field - that breaks in to (or obtains a foothold in) a market or society.
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OK got youtube to work, all I have to say is WOW, people are offended by this? It's definitely amateurish, embarrasingly so, and it's not funny at all, but sadly what they make fun of is quite true. While I won't pretend I understand "fanboys", people who are forever loyal to a brand and blind to its mistakes and weaknesses, I still can't see what the big deal is.

Yeah it's a horrible attempt by MS, MS should stop denigrating other brands and concentrate on the strengths of its own, which are many. The problem is that they continue to concentrate on others weakness instead of marketing their own strengths, very much like the Mac vs. PC commercials, only Apple learned their lessons and we don't see that kind of advertising from them. I'd be curious though as Apples popularity falls with the advent of competitors and in light of their recent lack of innovation, if they won't fall into that trap again in the future.

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Zeldain said:
they know what you want before you do.
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Kinda of a sad statement, has a lemmings feel to it. Apple markets dog feces with an Apple logo on it, sure I'll buy it because they "know what you want before you do".
 
BlockEight88 said:
I gotta agree with the ad. What the hell has Apple been doing the last 6 months? But unfortunately, the iPhone 5C/S will not flop. People will once again line up in droves. I don't understand it. They're not bad phones, but their not innovative.
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I know what Tim Cook has been doing.

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Lava Lamp Freak said:
The problem is that they're insulting their own customers. I, like the majority of people do, use a Windows PC for my desktop. But, I have been using an iPhone since 2007. When they insult me for lining up to buy an iPhone, it makes me rethink buying other Microsoft products.
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You might be mixing things up.

Samsung was the one who insulted those who wait in lines to buy a telephone.

In the grand scheme of things, even if it were Microsoft, they wouldn't care about the relatively few people who wait in line to give money to Apple. There are hundreds of millions who buy these products, and yet only hundreds wait in lines. That is a difference of six orders of magnitude.

Even if Microsoft were to run commercials pointing out what line-waiters are like, and even if Microsoft were to lose all business from every single one of them, it would make no significant difference. Indeed, the difference would be a rounding error.
 
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