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Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]
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I was trying to decide between 5th and 6th grade.
As an engineer, you couldn't pay me to work for a company that would put out something like this.
Innovative has lost all meaning when talking about Apple. I wish the forum filtered it as offensive language so people would be forced to have real, substantive discussions.
LOL, Microsoft OWNs the PC market so lets drop the "You will never beat Apple!"
I thought it was funny but also it sounds somewhat childish.
Well...
Actually it kind of reminds me of the GET A MAC adds where if you were 'cool' you get a Mac and if you are not, well....you know the rest.
SJ was a great business man and visionary but he was not a god. And how he used his marketing skills is the stuffs of legends so he is fair game. Microsoft is in a full spin-out and they are trying anything they can to resonate with new customers. From a marketing perspective, I get it. But I'm not sure new customers will.
BTW, the iphone 5C and S and the announcements this week, in general, were, weak. Colored phones is innovative? Wow! How far APPLE has fallen. So Apple has brought this upon themselves.
Apple design head Jony Ive even says, "The iPhone 5C is beautifully, unapologetically plastic."
Incredible statement.
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Actually it kind of reminds me of the GET A MAC adds where if you were 'cool' you get a Mac and if you are not, well....you know the rest.
SJ was a great business man and visionary but he was not a god. And how he used his marketing skills is the stuffs of legends so he is fair game. Microsoft is in a full spin-out and they are trying anything they can to resonate with new customers. From a marketing perspective, I get it. But I'm not sure new customers will.
BTW, the iphone 5C and S and the announcements this week, in general, were, weak. Colored phones is innovative? Wow! How far APPLE has fallen. So Apple has brought this upon themselves.
Apple design head Jony Ive even says, "The iPhone 5C is beautifully, unapologetically plastic."
Incredible statement.
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I find it interesting that with each successive iPhone release, Apples competition launches ever more pointed advertising at the new products with increasing speed, yet very little in the way of compelling alternatives. Its almost like they had this shot and ready to upload before the new phones were even released. It comes off as incredible immature and distasteful.
They will be huge. And MS marketing always makes MS look stupid
Looks like Tami Reller has no clue what she's doing
Yeah, that's Microsoft for you
Microsoft is made up of an entire legion of whiney little b#%^&s. To pick which version of Windows is the best is the same is picking which turd smells the least. Windows has never been any good. Ever. Pure example of how money and marketing can sway logic. Novell was superior to any MS network OS, even LANtastic (remember that bucket of trouble anyone?) was a better choice. Their hardware sucks (what little they do make, i.e. Xbox), and every phone venture has failed miserably.
Funny how they try to tout their crap is better than the iPhone. If it were, why spend so much time and money trying to convince people? It should be apparent. Well, it is apparent, but only in the fact that MS sucks in every aspect. These videos only prove it.
Microsoft is made up of an entire legion of whiney little b#%^&s. To pick which version of Windows is the best is the same is picking which turd smells the least. Windows has never been any good. Ever. Pure example of how money and marketing can sway logic. Novell was superior to any MS network OS, even LANtastic (remember that bucket of trouble anyone?) was a better choice. Their hardware sucks (what little they do make, i.e. Xbox), and every phone venture has failed miserably.
Funny how they try to tout their crap is better than the iPhone. If it were, why spend so much time and money trying to convince people? It should be apparent. Well, it is apparent, but only in the fact that MS sucks in every aspect. These videos only prove it.
Look at the sales number, wake up dude, your mobile platform is sucks M$. Let's face it, you should actually paying ppl to use your tablet and phones. And don't be cheap on that, or your shipment CAN still fall short of what apple can do.
The Ad in one word - cheap
The Ad in one word - cheap
I have to agree here with the majority for a change.
Although the points they make are quite accurate and observant they're not executed well. And a bit vague and as somebody else said, nerd-friendly.
Most folks will have the 'humour' soaring over their heads because its too subtle. And the fact their own product is no better, makes the whole project a bit futile to be honest.
Now. If it was say, Samsung and Android and they made direct comparisons to the the hardware and OS then it might work. But MS? Nah.
Although the points they make are quite accurate and observant they're not executed well. And a bit vague and as somebody else said, nerd-friendly.
Most folks will have the 'humour' soaring over their heads because its too subtle. And the fact their own product is no better, makes the whole project a bit futile to be honest.
Now. If it was say, Samsung and Android and they made direct comparisons to the the hardware and OS then it might work. But MS? Nah.
Tasteless attempt to copy the intent behind the old I'm a PC series.
But like so many things of late, they missed it completely
Whta is innvoative for you? A time machine? 4D reality display? The innovation is in the small things, but this time Apple passed themself. 64bit CPU in mobile device, fingerprint sensor integrated in a button with saphire glass cover to mention a few.
Plastic phones
What I find most interesting with this ad and the Nokia "imitation is best form of flattery" web ad that came out on Tuesday is Microsoft/Nokia tries to show Apple using plastic as poor quality and unimaginative. The 5C is the low-end, entry-level phone. However, what I get from these implications is that Apple's lower-end phone = the best quality Windows/Nokia phone.
What I find most interesting with this ad and the Nokia "imitation is best form of flattery" web ad that came out on Tuesday is Microsoft/Nokia tries to show Apple using plastic as poor quality and unimaginative. The 5C is the low-end, entry-level phone. However, what I get from these implications is that Apple's lower-end phone = the best quality Windows/Nokia phone.
Apple insults the intelligence of their own customers every day.
Step back and look in, from the outside of your own walls.
Yeah, very funny, hilarious even that you're talking bull to some guy who's been made up to resemble a dead guy, my sides are literally splitting.
But which of the two companies has a warehouse full of Surface tablets they can't freaking sell?
That's even funnier.
But which of the two companies has a warehouse full of Surface tablets they can't freaking sell?
That's even funnier.
We can take it if what you're going to dish out is funny or is clever. This is just desperate and sad. The Samsung ads of people lining up to buy a phone now that was clever.
I thought the samsung galaxy ads were in poor taste making fun of a group of users although I admit a bit of humor to them. This is just sad, aside from the Steve Jobs reference the quality of the adds appear to be done by a group of amateurs not a large multi million dollar corporation.
What people at microsoft dont get is that the Mac vs PC campaign was funny becauApple was the underdog. They were a pretty small company back then. People cheer for the underdog and as an underdog you are sort of allowed to take things not so seriously. Apple understood that when they became a multi billion dollar company that they had to stop Mac vs PC.
Microsoft is still a gigantic company.They might not have a big marketshare in the mobile market - but they are still Microsoft. Their videos just look desperate and spiteful and the only thing they ridicule is themselves
Microsoft is still a gigantic company.They might not have a big marketshare in the mobile market - but they are still Microsoft. Their videos just look desperate and spiteful and the only thing they ridicule is themselves