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Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]
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Half of the iPhones sold are the cheap or free models.
What is your opinion of the people who buy them?
It can't be Steve. He changes his clothes! Steve rarely did that. Indeed, he was famous for smelling bad.
One of the funniest aspects of the video was the others changing their shirt color to match the color that Tim wore in the previous segment.
It is not Steve. Steve wore the same clothes day after day.
Although the op was being condescending... I must admit, free Android phones are NOT previous gen flagships guaranteed to get the latest updates.... they're garbage phones.
Fully half the phones that Apple sells are "cheap-ass phones to a cheap-ass market". Wallmart is a major partner of Apple, accounting for huge sales in huge swaths of the US.
Just stating the facts.
Pathetic
They actually put more effort into mocking apple than concentrating on their own business. I can understand competitors winding each other up but this is just ridiculous.
They actually put more effort into mocking apple than concentrating on their own business. I can understand competitors winding each other up but this is just ridiculous.
Why should Apple get in the way of Microsoft's lowering of its own public image?
Sorta like politics, where the conventional wisdom is "If your opponent is destroying himself, keep yer damn mouth shut."
Apple fights back when there's some legal issue, don't worry. This? This is just so beneath a public corporate response. Anyway Microsoft has pulled the ads and acknowledged pulling them, so Apple doesn't need to say word one about it.
Microsoft's 'apology' says 'off the mark'.
At least they are consistent - it's been a long, long time since anything they have made 'hit the mark'.
BOB, Windows phone versions, Zune, Windows 8, Surface, list continues....
Just comes off as sour grapes and very amateurish.
At least they are consistent - it's been a long, long time since anything they have made 'hit the mark'.
BOB, Windows phone versions, Zune, Windows 8, Surface, list continues....
Just comes off as sour grapes and very amateurish.
Butt Hurt
Why do all you people get so butt hurt over Microsoft poking fun at apple? I think it's hilarious. I love apple products and have own the iphone since it came out on AT&T but its time for a change. I have the iPhone 5 and my work just gave me a S4 and that phone is awesome. It's just the same sh&t every year from apple. I don't want another iPhone 5 that you put a S on and plated the back with some fake gold.
Why do all you people get so butt hurt over Microsoft poking fun at apple? I think it's hilarious. I love apple products and have own the iphone since it came out on AT&T but its time for a change. I have the iPhone 5 and my work just gave me a S4 and that phone is awesome. It's just the same sh&t every year from apple. I don't want another iPhone 5 that you put a S on and plated the back with some fake gold.
"That character they call "T" or Tim is clearly supposed to be Steve Jobs."
There are 2 "back of heads" in video - Jonathan Ive and Tim Cook - Are you trying to manufacture controversy?
There are 2 "back of heads" in video - Jonathan Ive and Tim Cook - Are you trying to manufacture controversy?
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To me the only tasteless part is that Steve is dead - and his "back of head" character looks about 85 lbs. If they would have been talking to "Johnny Ive" the whole time, I'd have no problem with it.
Apple saw the light a long time ago and others are still trying to catch them. Innovation is not gobs of new features in the mobile space, it's about being predictable. Bleeding edge changes detract from the overall experience and negative experiences drastically limit the real, day to day, utility of the device. They do innovate, but in each new revision those innovations are becoming less and less obvious to the outside.
I'm not a rabid fan and I plan on dropping my iPhone soon. Not because it's not a great device, but because it's being ruined by the carriers. I will move my carrying device to a iPad mini once the new ones are released.
On the contrary, have you heard of the bigger the bark, the smaller the bite?
They can't do much else than mouth off precisely because they don't have a way of winning with product.
Quite so. And from the dictionary: Dramatic or tragic irony: a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.