New Mac Ad Attacks Entire Windows Lineage

[ohim]

and for those who say they didn`t hear anything about Apple in that add well take a look at the link from where it originally started http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

 

[itadakimasu]

I think they should spend time actually advertising their products. They have all these ads which simply try to make microsoft look bad, but none showing their products or any pricing.

The largest market share they win are people who want a mac solely based on being trendy, and not on actual application or price.

 

[tlmck]

[citation][nom]smlong[/nom]I haven't seen this burger ad, but you can't really compare a burger ad to this. With the burgers being $2-$3, I can just go try them for myself and see who's full of crap. With a $600-$1000 (or in the case of Apple, a $1300-$2000) purchase, people don't have that luxury. Other big ticket items are NOT advertised like this.A good example is car advertisements. They don't resort to this childish bashing to the extent of Apple. They state quantitatively WHY their product is better compared to product X or just simply extol the virtues of their product without reference to someone else's product. If I bought a vehicle for $40,000 and then I have to see ads all the time telling me (falsely) that I bought a lemon, it would REALLY get under my skin too.Apple takes things to a whole new level of exaggerating or lying about their competitor's product without really ever saying their product doesn't have the same faults. The funny thing, too, is that they attack just the OS, but the net result is that they are attacking every partner that Microsoft has. It surprises me that Microsoft is the only company with their own subdued counter-advertising.[/citation]
Yep. I love how Hyundai explains how their product is better than Toyota or Honda. Nothing like Apple at all in those ads.

 

[El_Capitan]

If Mac's weren't so outrageously overpriced, they wouldn't be able to afford millions on attack ads against Windows.

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]Drag0nR1der[/nom]Strange, i didn't see any marketing for Apple products in that ad, where was that exactly?Friendly? dont think so... and I'm glad I'm not the kind of person 'that' type of advertising works for.[/citation]

You must have missed that big Apple logo then.

Jeez, you guys really are uptight. That commercial was funny. They both get younger and look ridiculous as they get "younger."

Let's see... what did it take, two days before the comments section went back to normal?

 

[jj463rd]

I remember the original failure with the Macintosh back in 1984.
There was a comic strip that made fun of it I think it was Bloom County and they spoofed it calling it the Banana 9000.
It was very innovative with its GUI and Mouse but very flawed in execution,extremely limited and too expensive.
It had 128k of RAM which most of the Macintosh Operating system used and only had Mac Paint,Mac Write and the Guided Tour Disk.For practically a year it had no other software other than a spreadsheet by Microsoft I think.At nearly $2,500 it was essentially nothing more than a very limited toy.Very few of them were actually sold.Apple built a huge automated factory to produce them at much expense.It was such a sales fiasco for Apple and a financial loss that Steve Jobs was fired as head of the Macintosh Division and he left Apple.It was mostly the Apple II that made money for Apple.The Original Macintosh never sold in numbers anywhere like Steve Jobs expected.His sales estimate was well over 10 times of what occurred.In 100 days Apple sold about 70,000 Mac's.There were months later on in which Apple only sold a few thousand Macs.I think that the total of the original Macintosh model sold was around 125,000 to 175,000 probably an average of around 150,000 total.They had expected to compete with I.B.M. and overtake the P.C. they failed.

 

[SamuelL421]

Really great ad, although a bit hypocritical considering snow leopard's release issues. But apple is definitely winning on the price point war currently, full osx 10.6, $30! Microsoft windows 7 ultimate or pro, anywhere from $100 to 300 depending on vendor.


Anyways, windows fanboys, chill out. Apple will never again be the computer of the masses and pc's will never (ever) consistently be the solidly built, industrial-design-heavy, often niche-market machines, which apple provides. Both will always be found in the jobs requiring purpose built machines: Windows - cheap pcs for office settings, powerful pcs for any task requiring serious processing power, Apple in media and design jobs due to their general reliability and consistency in rendering color from machine to machine.

 

[tlmck]

[citation][nom]smlong[/nom]In the 80's, there was the AmgiaOS and Atari TOS. In fact, I would rather have used GeOS on the C64/128. In the 90's, there were additional entires that were better which included BeOS, Win95/98, and NeXT Step.[/citation]

Your forgot the par excellence of OS/2. I would put my old Cyrix 200 machine running OS/2 Warp up against anything before or since. Geoworks Ensemble would be a second choice. GEOS on the C64 was also an excellent choice. Never could afford Amiga, but always wanted one.

 

[papasmurf]

This ad might be relevant if not for the snow leopard guest account - kind of hypocritical if you ask me

 

[Gin Fushicho]

.......

NEGATIVITY!!!!!!

Bad Apple! BAD! *spanks apple*

 

[portuguesemafia]

Every OS has problems. Windows,apple and linux. They should spend more time fixing there shit, then talking crap about windows.

 

[ossie]

Most of the comments are truly a parade of windumbed m$ fankiddies letting hot steam out...

The ad was quite funny, pointing out obvious m$ flaws: promising the moon from the sky, and failing miserably to provide it. Repeatedly.

Regarding OS history, a clarification for wintarded m$ fankiddies:
OS X is derived from NeXt, it has nothing in common (at OS level) with previous versions, just the GUI has the same resemblance.

 

[ominous prime]

There's issues with all operating systems, and as OSX gets more market share, people will start coding viruses in mass for it. I don't like Apple's marketing strategy, people will see that they'll have just as many issues with Mac as they do with PC. Perhaps even more since they won't be able to utilize majority of software available. But I digress, Justin Long is a douche bag.

 

[Caffeinecarl]

Pure trash talk. This is low even for Apple. Man, if Apple's ads get any stupider, they could run for political office! Attack attack attack and don't bother to even promote yourself one iota.

 

[captaincharisma]

i'm surprised the anti- mac people never started making viruses for OSX yet just to shut the apple fans up.

 

[Yoder54]

[citation][nom]MaxRukov[/nom]I wonder if Apple fans realize what this type of attack makes them look like... cuz Im sure that none of those iterations of Windows ever influenced ANY of apple's design choices... no, none of them....... dicks.[/citation]

Why would an Apple owner, or any other consumer, think that the ads that a company runs is a reflection upon them? The companies run the ads and these ads have nothing to do with what the consumer "looks like."

I guess Apple should pull back since Microsoft has never attacked Apple in it's ads. What "design choices" are you referring to?

 

[leafblower29]

Whats funny is I saw this commercial during family guy.

 

[pocketdrummer]

Apple, grow the F*** up.

As soon as they develop an OS that run on all the systems Windows runs on, does it faster, and more reliably, THEN I'll respect them. Until then, I'll lean towards affordable systems running windows or linux (if it matures a bit more).

 

[ssalim]

Isn't there a law on commercial that basically prevents a commercial to directly mock another competitor? For example, "Buy this one, not that one. That one has a lot of flaws: this and that and this and that."

Instead, the commercial should say: "Buy this one, because this one is this and that and other leading competitor does not." (without saying/pointing which one)

 

[samely]

[citation][nom]deadlockedworld[/nom]Wrong. This is true of some tech companies, but not Apple. They have been innovating from the beginning. (cept for that Xerox mouse idea) If anything Microsoft has learned more from Apple over the years.[/citation]
I guess all of you who don't know what I'm talking about missed this : http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/

 

[the_brute]

Nice attack, but I think a little below the belt. I use Microsoft because well its every where and the easiest to adapt to most things. I dont have the money to spend on a MAC. My favorite OS is Fedora. But all in all the 3 OS's are all very comparable, all have bugs and are all HUGE hogs. Mores's Law states that computers will double every 18 months. OS's have almost tripled in that stated time. I currently dual boot MS Vista x86 (PAE enabled) and Fedora 10 64. Vista takes longer to boot but is much faster while its up. Fedora boots inabout quarter to half the time but takes longer to do anything. Apple fits between the two from what I have used it. I just think its sad Apple is being so negative and down right rude (but comical) to get sales.
And wow this brings out a bunch of fanboys for Windows.
All I will say to that is dont put all your hope in 1 OS because none are perfect.
Apple will start getting more attacks as their OS becomes more used so for that aspect let them gloat about that until MS can laugh back.

 

[dmoney_07]

Windows ME had problems? 😵

 

[Airey]

I like the ad, it's innovative and funny.
Most places people still use PC hardware. Apple survived coz of iPod/iPhone.

Why are people turning this into another PC vs Apple comparison.
Just sit back and enjoy the humor.

 

[Guest]

MAC's dont nearly have the compatibility that Windows does. Trust me.

 

[bryce55]

So when is someone going to hire a hitman to take out those actors, I mean it really must suck to walk around pc users knowing you smited them on national tv.