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New UK 'Get a Mac' Ads
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Anyone who thinks these adds are 'backfiring' has to be a complete muppet. Its all in jest and I think neither the mac comes off as being smug nor the PC as being a complete idiot.
i think you will find it started in UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernanny
I think the UK ads are good, but Mac does seem a bit dull, and i think this is due to peep show.
They should of got someone cool like chris moyles to be mac (yeh he does own one), and someone not so cool to be PC.
I think the new ads are very funny, but don't show the Mac in a good light.
I find myself warming more to David Mitchell (PC) than to Robert Webb (Mac). PC might be a looser but he's likable and sort-of-fun. Mac is a bit bland and dull... and Webb's character on Peep Show, brilliant it may be, is enough to put me off anything he endorses!
You sound like The Simpsons when they try and do an English accent but purposely make it sound Australian to try and piss us off.
SL
I find myself warming more to David Mitchell (PC) than to Robert Webb (Mac). PC might be a looser but he's likable and sort-of-fun. Mac is a bit bland and dull... and Webb's character on Peep Show, brilliant it may be, is enough to put me off anything he endorses!
You sound like The Simpsons when they try and do an English accent but purposely make it sound Australian to try and piss us off.
SL
I found the ads to be quite funny, it just feels that Robert Webb was miscast as Mac. David Mitchell is the perfect hapless nerd that is needed to play PC in the apple ads, but mitchell just annoys me a bit.
Mac Guy comes off as defensive
In the US series the Mac Guy has a cool confidence but the UK Mac guy is overpowered by the PC actor.
The director needs to get the PC actor to come off more like the US PC actor, ie, knows he is inferior, but is still likeable, and is disappointed each time the facts reveal the PC as less capable.
The UK ads do not make the PC realize its weaknesses.
Bottomline, they don't work.
In the US series the Mac Guy has a cool confidence but the UK Mac guy is overpowered by the PC actor.
The director needs to get the PC actor to come off more like the US PC actor, ie, knows he is inferior, but is still likeable, and is disappointed each time the facts reveal the PC as less capable.
The UK ads do not make the PC realize its weaknesses.
Bottomline, they don't work.
Were you joking about Moyles?
He's a stupid fat idiot. Not in any way, shape, or form is he cool! There aren't that many English people that are cool anyway. To be honest, we are not a cool country. The peep show is good, but if you watch that and then this, you'll not want to buy a mac!
I agree the PC is more likeable. I also think Apple should be careful when they go on about a lack of viruses. There are holes in the software. It's only a matter of time. Then, it will not be fun at all.
I think Blair
and Cameron should do the ads. I wonder if Bush is a PC user (I already know he doesn't email - I mean can't email)
Oh, puleeze...These new UK ads are awful. Sorry, but it has to be said.
They're fine.
"Magic" is hilarious; what a wonderful spoof on "the wow starts now" campaign.
The "Network" ad is actually better than the US version. (Must be the subtitles).
All the rest are at least clever.
"Awful"? It only has to be said if you have no sense of humor.
Diabolical? You find them. . . Satanic?!?
And you say that with a straight face, too?
meh
It's all subjective. I'm not at all offended if you don't like them as much as I do. I happen to have almost fallen out of my chair over "Magic".
Oh, and it's not only the British that raise the volume for people that they think can't speak English, we Americans do it too!
Hilarious? That's a little far. Humorous, maybe.
It's all subjective. I'm not at all offended if you don't like them as much as I do. I happen to have almost fallen out of my chair over "Magic".
Oh, and it's not only the British that raise the volume for people that they think can't speak English, we Americans do it too!
I was being ironic about Jonny Ive.
In general, I like the getamac ads, both US and UK, but these new UK ones actually made me cringe. Good to hear that some others like them.
Oh dear. Things are more serious than I thought then!
Um, no, the Mac is saying that about himself (made for the home, made for photos and music, etc etc).
A clip of Peep Show for anyone who's wondering what people are talking about!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXLlhNsbncI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXLlhNsbncI
They work Relatie just bouch a macbook pro simply on the basis of watching those adds...
The One that dosnt really work is the court one its funny like but dosnt really explain much oh well ..
office one still cracks me up with the your coming for supper
The One that dosnt really work is the court one its funny like but dosnt really explain much oh well ..
office one still cracks me up with the your coming for supper
As with a fair few US TV shows, Supernanny was a UK concept, shown here first, then bought up by ABC. The naughty step (and associated parenting techniques) generated some news coverage over here. It would be very odd for Apple to produce an advert solely reliant on the fact that the UK audience was aware of some fairly obscure US TV show.
Apple I am sure creates ads that target the market they run in. What's not so funny to "U.S.", could be really funny or impressive in the market they target.