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Personally, if I had the $$ to fork out on any computer I'd get a Unix machine. Shweet!

There are purposes and places for all the various types of machines. Do I like the ads? Meh. I think they're mediocre--maybe half a laugh/smile the first time I saw one. I thought their Ad campaign where they had all the various types of users stand up and explain their experiences with PC and then their experience with a Mac was better.
 
I'm going to sound like a moron, but I actually don't understand these ads. After I saw it on tv, I was just like "what?". I also think the "we're superior" method isn't a great one.
 
celebrian23 said:
I'm going to sound like a moron, but I actually don't understand these ads. After I saw it on tv, I was just like "what?". I also think the "we're superior" method isn't a great one.
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You mean you aren't a fan of scare tactics and blatant lying (new digital cameras being incompatible with PCs)??

How dare you, sir.
 
Apple Shmapple said:
You mean you aren't a fan of scare tactics and blatant lying (new digital cameras being incompatible with PCs)??

How dare you, sir.
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I have 2 digital cameras. If I plug either one of them into my mac, the camera model is correctly identified and the pictures transfer to iPhoto. No need for any install CDs. Not so on my PC. How is highlighting that aspect of the computer/system lying? (Or am I doing something wrong on my XP machine?)

-Squire
 
Squire said:
I have 2 digital cameras. If I plug either one of them into my mac, the camera model is correctly identified and the pictures transfer to iPhoto. No need for any install CDs. Not so on my PC. How is highlighting that aspect of the computer/system lying? (Or am I doing something wrong on my XP machine?)

-Squire
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The commercial is explicit in saying that NEW cameras from Japan don't talk to PCs but do to Macs. Pffffshhhh.

You gotta be kidding me. XP doesn't need drivers for cameras either.

Nobody in their right mind is producing a digicam in this day and age that doesn't talk to 85% of the market they are targeting. It would be insanity.

Stop promoting scare tactics and poorly thought through urban legends.
 
Last night I ran into an unbelievable problem with my iTunes. It started out giving me the dreaded "!" symbol next to a song that hasn't changed folders. When I remapped it (to where it was in the first place), it moved the "!" to the song immediately underneath it, regardless of the artist or albumn. I ended up with duplicates of my entire 22 gig library.

It's ridiculous that iTunes doesn't recognize when it's duping an entire library and, I dunno, maybe throw out a little nag box asking if that's what the user really wants to do. I thought these commercials were showcasing "ease of use". Actual practice is proving iTunes is no better or worse than other MP3 management tools. They all have idiosyncracies.

Maybe in one of those scare tactic Apple commercials where the hipster young dude is standing next to the stuffy, bald older guy representing a PC - they can make the commercial end by having the hipster duplicate himself 3 times spontaniously, then when he tries to talk, no words come out because the map to his voicebox has mysteriously dissapeared, forcing another duplication in an attempt to find a version of the hipster that actually talks.

:D
 
Stupid Comparison/Contrast

Multimedia said:
I noticed that too. They seem to be saying the Mac can't do business as well as a PC which is TOTALLY FALSE advertising. :D
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I thought it was stupid that Apple would rehash the old "PCs are good for business, Macs are good for graphics" talking point. I would have been a Mac person from the start (1995) if it weren't for the fact that computer salesmen steered me toward a PC since I wasn't planning on editing a lot of graphics but was more interested in word processing, e-mail, and the Internet. "You should see what this guy can do with a spreadsheet" the young, hip guy says... nonsense. But I guess you have to hook in to people's stereotypes to get their attention.
 
Apple Shmapple said:
The commercial is explicit in saying that NEW cameras from Japan don't talk to PCs but do to Macs. Pffffshhhh.

You gotta be kidding me. XP doesn't need drivers for cameras either.

Nobody in their right mind is producing a digicam in this day and age that doesn't talk to 85% of the market they are targeting. It would be insanity.

Stop promoting scare tactics and poorly thought through urban legends.
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Wow, you're right! Some Windows photo/scanner program popped up. Impressive. I guess old habits (figuring that drivers are necessary on Windows) die hard. How about in previous versions of Windows? Last I checked, XP made up only 38% of Windows users (as of June of last year). Is it the same in 2000? Win 98? Are drivers necessary for 62% of Windows machines or not?

-Squire

<edit> Careful with the word "explicit" there. The commercial simply implies that it is easier for a new Japanese camera to communicate with a Mac than a PC.
 
They have a new apple ad! didn't catch the first part of it but the PC guy is sitting in a brown box and the mac is sitting in a white box. The only part I heard was someting about the PC has more parts of him in other boxes
 
http://looprumors.com/index.php?new-mac-ads-surfacing

Today, new ads have surfaced along the same lines. The ads profile Macs that are 'Fun stuff' work 'Awesome out of the box' and 'Macs do Windows, too.'

Wow, Apple "promoting" Windows on TV? :eek:

But it's a great move if they are: Boot Camp will win massive numbers of users AWAY from Windows I'm sure. The PC owners I know ALL seem to be at least considering a future Mac, for running both--including some who would never have even considered a Mac before, simply because you're "supposed" to use what everyone uses (Windows).
 
The 'Fun Stuff' ad just aired in Hi-Def during the NBA Finals on ABC. Sweet :) Hardly anyone is doing Hi-Def commercials yet. Before too long it should become the norm and not the exception...
 
New ads?, just spotted at Cnet news.com 05/07/07

Hey Everyone, I just watched 2 news ads at Cnet, while reading a blog.

I'm not sure if Apple makes just little ads to post to the net or
not, but I haven't seen these before.

The first is Pc trying to break out of the screen, to get needed drivers
for Vista.

The Second is Pc, hiding from just beyond the screen, whispering
about virus' and spyware that follows you home.

Like I said, I'm not sure if they are new or not, but I have yet too have
seen either of them. And they aren't posted onto apples site yet.
 
WyLLyM said:
Hey Everyone, I just watched 2 news ads at Cnet, while reading a blog.

I'm not sure if Apple makes just little ads to post to the net or
not, but I haven't seen these before.

The first is Pc trying to break out of the screen, to get needed drivers
for Vista.

The Second is Pc, hiding from just beyond the screen, whispering
about virus' and spyware that follows you home.

Like I said, I'm not sure if they are new or not, but I have yet too have
seen either of them. And they aren't posted onto apples site yet.
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bringing back an old thread, ain't ya?
 
bringing back an old thread, ain't ya?
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There was another thread here this morning that disappeared.

I've seen three new Mac Ad's, two of which appear to be internet only. They were all on Wired.com

All three bash Vista openly.

1st was an ad with PC bumping up against the wall saying he's gotta get outta here. He needs new drivers and how bad the Vista upgrade was... then finally bumps out and ends up on the other side, confusing Mac.

2nd ad was PC peeking in from the side and sneeking around. Another attempt at saying how the virus' follow him around, and he thinks he'll go and run another virus sweep. The ad ends with text "145,000 virus. Not on a Mac"

3rd ad complained about something or other... Sorry, I have CRS, and it really wasn't worth looking it up again! LOL

**Update - OK, for the lazy - PC complains about upgrading to Vista, now he can't run some of his software. It rename it, moved it, etc...
 
New ad?

Has anyone seen the new ad where PC spins a wheel gameshow style? In the center of the wheel it says vista, and when he spins PC says "Come on, daddy needs an upgrade" or something. At the end, the wheel stops on "Lose a Turn". I only saw it once, and forgot what channel it was on. I'll be looking for it some more, but it was pretty funny.
 
New PC Ads

dman8950 said:
Has anyone seen the new ad where PC spins a wheel gameshow style? In the center of the wheel it says vista, and when he spins PC says "Come on, daddy needs an upgrade" or something. At the end, the wheel stops on "Lose a Turn". I only saw it once, and forgot what channel it was on. I'll be looking for it some more, but it was pretty funny.
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We'll definitely look out for that on YouTube. Vista sure does seem to be taking a pretty sizable hit these days.....
 
albeik said:
Another security focused version is described as follows:
The new Mac ad shows two guys standing next to each other in front of a white background. One starts to sneeze and claims he has a virus, he warns the other Man to be careful, the man replies "Oh it's ok I'm a Mac" and they talk back and forth, the man with the tissue sneezing identifies himself as a PC. The infected man sneezes a bit while they chat, then he says "I think I'm going to crash" and falls down. The Mac man stays there and says "Whoops...there yah go."
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You know what worries me is that ads mocking PC types are likely to be insulting to some PC hackers who might start to take more notice of Apple in retaliation. If you suddenly get lots of hackers turning their malevolent attention on the Apple OS, I suspect that the Mac would start to suffer from the same problems that Windows suffers from security attacks.
 
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