I just saw the end of the Computer Cart one on TV. I was going to post it here but saw that rocketman and others had already seen them. I'm currently watching them on Apple's website...
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New 'Get a Mac' Ads: Flashback and Computer Cart
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Lets all pitch in and buy Rocketman a new monitor! ...CRTs are dead
Thanks for capturing these commercials Rocketman!
I am not inside the reality distortion field.
But I want to be!
They posted the AppleTV ad 24 hours after airing but the new GAM ad 12 hours after posting. My question is this. Why doesn't Apple.com "have it first", or at minimum, iTunes for $1.99 during the first 24 hours of new content. Surely for tens of thousands of folks, the freshness of it has monetary value?
The new internet paradigm. Microsoft missed the boat, 5 times, how about Apple?
Rocketman
New 'Get a Mac' Ads: Flashback and Computer Cart
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Apple officially posted two new Get a Mac ads on their website tonight: Flashback and Computer Cart.
'Flashback' shows Mac and PC in their youth while 'Computer Cart' targets cryptic error messages on PCs.
Apple officially posted two new Get a Mac ads on their website tonight: Flashback and Computer Cart.
'Flashback' shows Mac and PC in their youth while 'Computer Cart' targets cryptic error messages on PCs.
It means fewer people care. This is YA "get a mac" ad in a long list to keep the bore-dogs from being bored.
The Apple TV posting was not only a new ad for a new product line, but my posting scooped (for MacRumors.com) not only the airing of it starting, but the first posted capture of it (despite of how foul the quality was).
The official Apple version took 24 hours, giving me a Google Videos and macrumors.com coup.
Rocketman
I love the computer cart one. I wish they thrown in the Svchost.exe memory read error that everyone is having since these latest updates (really bad one, the system locks up completely everytime you try to launch anything. I work tech support (hey, it pays the tuition bills) for Dell and I've been getting all these calls. Today I finally found a Microsoft KB Article explaining the problem--this error may occur on Windows XP systems which have automatic updates installed and MS Office.
Yes folks, this horrible seemingly unsolvable error message was caused by 3 the way 3 products work together--3 products by the same company that created the latest Windows patches, Microsoft. Sometimes I just feel so bad for these people I'm trying to help. If I could just explain to them why they should get a Mac, their lives could be so much better (but somehow I doubt my supervisor would appreciate that).
Yes folks, this horrible seemingly unsolvable error message was caused by 3 the way 3 products work together--3 products by the same company that created the latest Windows patches, Microsoft. Sometimes I just feel so bad for these people I'm trying to help. If I could just explain to them why they should get a Mac, their lives could be so much better (but somehow I doubt my supervisor would appreciate that).
I found cryptic errors to be quite funny but sadly untrue. I remember when my mbp started crashing and what not it kept giving a bunch of weird errors. Even when i went to the certafied repair center the people there didn't know what the errors meant and had to call Apple to get the offical stance on what each error means.
This Mac/PC ads are getting boring, really rehashing the same thing over and over again. Move on Apple, think of something else.
And I am not sure those ads actually send the intended message. Seems that only thing Macs are good for is "artsy" stuff and PC people spend all day working on spreadsheets.
And I am not sure those ads actually send the intended message. Seems that only thing Macs are good for is "artsy" stuff and PC people spend all day working on spreadsheets.
wow that's a rare case then- I've always used Macs (for over a decade) and never have I gotten cryptic errors. Yes, occasionally an error, but it makes perfect sense and it is easily overcome (that is, since OSX)
very funny.
and yes, the wmp.dll DOES regard Windows Media Player, which just makes me laugh
here's the exact error message, by the way. how typical of those Windose machines......
"The file wmp.dll has a version number of 9.0.0.2980 where 9.0.0.3008 was expected. Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled. Do you want to install the Player from the Microsoft Web site?"
just one word (or symbol) to that:
and yes, the wmp.dll DOES regard Windows Media Player, which just makes me laugh
here's the exact error message, by the way. how typical of those Windose machines......
"The file wmp.dll has a version number of 9.0.0.2980 where 9.0.0.3008 was expected. Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled. Do you want to install the Player from the Microsoft Web site?"
just one word (or symbol) to that:
I guess they know what works...I only like the Vista security one and the rest (like most ads) just bug me. But non-techie consumers ARE talking about them--still after all this time! So--whatever works
Yea, my english teacher actually brought them up in class as a perfect example of different character voices, I was very happy inside.
haha, all true. The ads are a good way to make PC users get into Macs more and look into them as a viable option. The flashback one is funny, but only if you've been following the ads for a long t ime. For a "foreign" mac user, I doubt it would be funny. The best ad, by a long shot, is "security".
Who would have guessed that the real purpose of the 'discovery channel' was to discover new adverts in the wild.
As they say..."for satire to be funny, it can't be fair"
flashback (or calculator) was really the only get a mac commercial IMO that was just really stupid . It just didn't point out the flaws of PCs as all the other ones did...
on a side note, it sounds like Mac is saying, "my website on home movie i just made"
i did like the computer cart one however
on a side note, it sounds like Mac is saying, "my website on home movie i just made"
i did like the computer cart one however
i was just watching lost and waiting for the commercials so i can watch the videos on apple's site, and the first commercial that came on was flashback
I feel these ads are beginning to get a little long in the tooth.
"Flashback" may have been way too subtle for me. Early posts in this thread suggests the comparison between the Mac's built-in apps (iPhoto, etc) versus the Windows built-in apps (Calculator) -- which of course has already been pointed out in another ad. Was this another, subtler, dig at the same thing? Or a dig at the fact that nothing's changed in a long time? Or ... ? I'm just not sure what message I was supposed to be getting from that.
Computer Cart was cute, mostly because I've seen exactly such carts in the hallways at work, piled with PC's, so I identify (somewhat) with that image.
"Flashback" may have been way too subtle for me. Early posts in this thread suggests the comparison between the Mac's built-in apps (iPhoto, etc) versus the Windows built-in apps (Calculator) -- which of course has already been pointed out in another ad. Was this another, subtler, dig at the same thing? Or a dig at the fact that nothing's changed in a long time? Or ... ? I'm just not sure what message I was supposed to be getting from that.
Computer Cart was cute, mostly because I've seen exactly such carts in the hallways at work, piled with PC's, so I identify (somewhat) with that image.