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[Midlantica]

What about Switch Ads for UNIX community?

( I copied this post from MacCentral where I posted it before )

I've heard some exuberent stories of folks in the *NIX world buying iBooks and loading them up with their flavour of UNIX and using the 'Mac' for email, browsing, Photoshop etc... best of both worlds? Administering over Airport. All their buddies are jealous of them... I'm no UNIX geek so I, myself, don't know what I'm talking about. I've just heard some glowing reviews.

Anyone...?


+++ Another poster called 'TheToe' replied with this below:

Reply_:

Subject: "My .conf files were getting out of hand..."

Body: "My config files were getting sloppy. All that text; just one line after another! I was having trouble with BIND. My SSH sessions would timeout. Hackers were slamming UDP ports all over, and I couldn't track them. I never could figure out the right operators to add to my fsck routines. My MAN pages were incomplete. Oh, it was just a nightmare. Then I found the iBook, and now I manage CitiBank's central operations from my hut on the beach in Aruba. My name is Josh Nerdlestein, and I'm an Information Operations Specialist."

 

[shadowfax]

Linux users, i understand, are really getting into macs a lot more than Wintel PC users. i have heard some great stuff about Yellow Dog Linux (linux for macs) running on powerbooks and stuff. Linux/unix users can also use most of their X window apps in OS X using a program called XonX, so OS X really has an incredible amount of Unix support beyond programs that have been made native too it.

on the other hand, why advertise on TV to Unix users? linux/unix users seem to find out about this stuff. now, granted, getting ad space on sites frequented by Unix users would be helpful, but my experience with unix users is that they are unbelievably attuned to the technology community, both PC and Mac. and they know what they need to do and what can do it well.

i think applew is wisest to feel for the average idiot PC user, especially students--it's young intellectuals, i think, especially those not into technology so much who are going to both not know about OS X stability and be attracted by it when they find out.

 

[Vector]

The new ads are up on apple's site.

 

[iJon]

Ellen

This has already been discussed. She is not 16, although i though she would be. She is 14, it has already been confirmed. She was on benedryll that day too. I saw this on ellenfeiss.net. She had a friend who told the site that and also sent them some pictures of her in 1st and 5th grade.

iJon

 

[dhdave]

I have to say, I watched the U.S. Open today and I only saw two switch ads. I was pretty dissapointed. I really think Apple is dropping the ball in the marketing department. Maybe it's because of the slump in the market, but isn't that the time to spend, spend and spend on marketing??

dh