These kinds of comparison adds just come off as petty bullying to me. Just seems artless and tacky.
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New Windows Tablet Ad Again Uses Siri's Voice to Poke Fun at iPad
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At least they don't try to misrepresent what their product does in real-life. A failure in which most technology companies still face. Mock advertising has to be done well and this utterly terrible because it sells nothing. If you can tell me why anyone would buy a Win 8 tablet after this, please tell me.
Look at yourself trying to become the beacon of good word. It was an opinion I've shared. Stop trying to internet it. I agree competing products is good. But it other companies still make their product look crap with a lack of direction to who and how they're going to sell it.Yep. It doesn't take much to get people frothing at the mouth here.
Attention folks: Competing products and pressure on Apple is good for you. Save your misplaced emotions for important things
We all know the corporate battle has been lost to Apple already, Microsoft are left trying to scrap for the consumer market for whoever is left that doesn't already have an iPad.
You do realize there is a world beyond Apple, right?
Alrighty son. It's clear you're too emotionally involved in this and the ad has hit you pretty hard. This is where I exit. Take care.
I've never heard of any large company that has switched to Apple, and there are no data centers on this planet that are powered by Apple equipment (not even Apple uses Apple in their data centers). You must either be living in a dream world or a parallel universe.
The consumer market, yes, that is where Apple has its moment of glory. But the trend is already shifting - Apple is no longer an underdog and they're not even cool anymore. So many people bought one of their gadgets, they're nothing special anymore. The kids are already waiting for the next hype and will move on soon. When that happens, businesses will still be using Microsoft products because they need them and rely on them.
Yes, but not in iOS. That's why I said it's a bit silly to almost say "Since iOS doesn't zoom out like that, it lacks a feature." In iOS, you can still rearrange apps, but you do it in a different way, that's all
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Did you feel the exact same when Apple was in the "bullying" position relative to say Vista? Or were they genius when Apple looked like the winner in the ad?
In the words of Monty Python
I fart in their general direction.
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They were funny, with two very clever comic actors. And they didn't make up consumer dissatisfaction about Vista.
I fart in their general direction.
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They were funny, with two very clever comic actors. And they didn't make up consumer dissatisfaction about Vista.
Apple's Mac v PC adverts ripped into Vista a few times. That was true 'mock advertising' in it's purest form.
Ok, I prefer Apple over Windows 8 RT tablets anyday, but I have to admit that ad is kinda funny, and I want to keep watching it again and again. There's just something neat about the poor iPad being made fun of (despite being superior overall) hehe.
Let me be honest here!
No one wants that MS POS,period.
We are an Apple believer society, care less what MS comes up with, just sayin!
Now trolls, beat me up!
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Love that movie!
No one wants that MS POS,period.
We are an Apple believer society, care less what MS comes up with, just sayin!
Now trolls, beat me up!
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Love that movie!
Everytime Microsoft gets my attention (this time their tablet OS), they mess it up with BS like in this ad.
Microsoft, whats wrong with you?
Or is it that you believe people are so stupid that an ad as cheap as this one will convince them?
I would feel stupid buying a Windows tablet now.
Microsoft, whats wrong with you?
Or is it that you believe people are so stupid that an ad as cheap as this one will convince them?
I would feel stupid buying a Windows tablet now.
Are we not talking tablets here? If you asked most exec's in large corporations, they'd be a large majority of iPads floating around. Already some (such as some airlines) have put trust into the iPad and dev'd their internal apps for the iOS platform. Forget the desktop/server market. That was lost years ago to Microsoft.
Alternatives are not even shifting quickly enough to get to a level playing field on a device vs device basis excluding platform share. MS's tablets are moving very slowly and Androids mobiles/tablets are very underused generally by web traffic stats. My bet by the time iPad's drop in popularity, MS will have given up trying to even make a break in the market and stop dev'ing them.
Anything else you say after that is total nonsense. iPads aren't special, aren't toys, aren't hype. Just very good products with a huge range of versatile apps. The iPad will remain the golden standard for tablet computing until someone else has the intelligence to leap-frog Apple's now-slowish development to grab developer's attention. Microsoft/Google are definitely not bothered in trying to lead that at all. I'd say the Android and Metro tabs are even more flash in the pan products/toys. Basically; unbox, play for a couple of weeks and then in the drawer for most of its life
.This is opinion by the way, not fact.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
As much as I prefer Apple over Windows, I find both of these ads funny. I think using the Siri voice this way is hilarious (and very clever).
We must be remembering different ads.
Or where does this ad reference consumer dissatisfaction information? Yes, it can be implied through a sequence of Siri-stated facts but I don't see any such comments about dissatisfaction at all.
I went back and watched again. Not a word about consumer dissatisfaction. Just Siri being used to say things the other can do that iPad can't and a few comments of "ouch, ouch" and "that's cool" which I personally can say about 1 or 2 of those benefits myself. Personally, I'd find it very cool to get an SD card slot into an iPad.
Overall, if it was the other way- if this ad was an iPad pointing out it's advantages over the Windows tablet- I bet the sentiment in this thread would be extraordinarily the other way. As said over and over: competition is good... even competition for Apple. A push that motivates some buying can make Apple bring something desirable among those buyers into next-gen iDevices. Then, those of us that desire such features can get what we would like in an Apple purchase too (which doesn't force using any such features on anyone passionately against those features).
I actually didn't say anything about those, now old, apple ads. I was never a fan of the 'im a Mac ads'. I guess my point is, if you are trying to sell your product, show me how your product works. Don't take the Samsung route and simply bully your competitor. The iPad in this ad serves as a distraction to the product being advertised. It lacks focus. Maybe these kinds if ads work. They just don't work for me.
After Windows 8 and the upcoming Xbox One they really don't have much going for them. If petty comparison commercials make them feel good then let the kids have some fun.
Your missing the point of Microsoft taking the piss out of Siri
If your going to delve into the technical merits of a parody, you missed the point.
No I get it; just don't see the humor b/c it doesn't strike a chord. Funny, quality, parody meets certain requirements. Otherwise it's just lame trite kitsch. Sorry if you can't grasp that.
Yeah, the SD card slot sounds useful, until you realize it's microSD! Seriously, how many cameras use microSD? Unless you buy microSD to start with and use an adapter, most people use cameras with standard SD cards, which the Dell won't take anyway. Oh and guess what, Apple has an adapter already.
So this ad is actually misleading. Consumers think "Oh, I can plug in the SD card that I have on my camera. Look they have a digital camera on the ad."
Of course, Microsoft could've bragged about their apps instead.... oh wait, it's running Windows RT.
So this ad is actually misleading. Consumers think "Oh, I can plug in the SD card that I have on my camera. Look they have a digital camera on the ad."
Of course, Microsoft could've bragged about their apps instead.... oh wait, it's running Windows RT.
Apple is my favourite company in the tech industry but I have no issue with these advertisements at all. Microsoft is just being factual in a little humorous way. Fair play. 
did it before too of course!
But why do these advertisements not annoy me at all but the Samsung anti-apple ads come across as obnoxious and arrogant?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5z0Ia5jDt4
did it before too of course! But why do these advertisements not annoy me at all but the Samsung anti-apple ads come across as obnoxious and arrogant?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5z0Ia5jDt4
As you say completely useless if you just use the digital camera argument. The only real use is as expandable storage so you can buy the 16 GB version with worrying about running out of space
As others have pointed out and how some have forgotten, Apple was guilty of the same tactics. Then it was considered clever and "stickin' it to the man (MS)". However back then Apple wasn't nearly as dominant as they are now. They were the David to MS' Goliath. My how a few years changes things. In the post PC world, MS is now the David to Android's and iOS' Goliath. They need to do these ads like Samsung does to stand out from the crowd. Although it does seem they're just following Samsung's footsteps with the attack ads. I'm a fan of that MS ad with the wedding brawl; that was classic.
Nowadays if you look at what Apple is doing they're in a mode of feel good, emotional ads. That ad they showed at WWDC was very classy. They've stayed away from attack ads now and focused on presenting how their product enriches or seems to enrich lives of every day people. They leave the attacks to their execs when they present something... "Can't innovate my ass!" That's gonna be on Phil's epitaph.