On Microsoft's latest Ad.

by Vid Luther on March 29, 2009

in Apple, blog, other, rants

This post talks about how Microsoft’s new Ad puts Apple on the defensive. I beg to differ. The Ad is cute, but it preaches to the choir. The apple fanboys don’t like it for some reason, the windows fanboys think it’s a punch in the face of Steve Jobs.

But seriously is it? In the first episode of Fast and The Furious, the protagonist “smokes” a Ferrari. Even though it showed the Ferrari owner as a “jerk”, I doubt people decided to stop lusting after a Ferrari. Just because some guy is a jerk to you, it’s not because he owns a Mac or a Ferrari, it’s because he’s a joke. The same guy would buy a top of the line PC, and be a jerk to you.

I use a mac, not because it makes me cool, but because it works for me. Do I dislike the price? Sure, I hate paying more for a mac, but I hate using Windows even more. Instead of that ad being an ad for PC, I think it’s an ad for HP, that microsoft paid for. I’d really be curious to see if someone actually switches from Mac to PC because of this Ad.

See the Ad below, it is cute and funny.

  • Nicely put!

    Across from me sits a Macbook with 13 inch screen. Aside from the black frame around the screen it's pretty slick. And its owner is travelling a lot as well. Looking forward to this. ;-)
  • Till,
    I agree with you. Before I switched to Mac OS, I used to be an "IBM Thinkpad Snob". When all my friends were buying Dells, I'd buy A31s, and A31p's. Definitely not cheap, but very durable and reliable. When people said the Dells were cheaper and touted their warranty, I could easily tell them that with the Thinkpad, I didn't need to rely on a warranty.

    As for reliability of Macbooks and Macbook pros. I travel a lot, and I love the Macbook Pros. I've had two issues with my macbook pros, both of which were taken care of fairly quickly (bad hdd and a top case issue). I've owned IBM, eMachines, HP, and Macs, I've had to support all of the above and Dell.

    I will never ever ever buy a Dell. The most reliable manufacturer I've seen so far has been IBM. Then Apple, then eMachines and then HP. Dells are designed to keep their service techs employed.
  • Geez. I love the decision making part. If everything was that easy! Hehe...

    I mean. I personally stick to IBM/Lenovo for laptops primarily because they've never let me down in the past five years. E.g. my old X40 has been literally around the world and is still on its first HDD. I didn't select them because they're cheap. They are not. And that's like my #1 thing and I'm deadly afraid of failure (OHAI, HP, ACER, ...!).

    The new Macbooks are indeed very appealing to me, but that's also because the Vista on this thing is sometimes a royal pain in the butt. And because I like BSD and have a Mac Mini at home.

    I'd be more convinced of Apple's laptops if they also came with a more positive track record. I have so many friends with iBooks and Macbooks and they all had outrageous issues -- one way or another. That is, unless they kept it at home and it never left the house. And then, for the most recent model and I'm letting others evaluate them first. ;-)

    In the meantime, I have to stick to what I know.

    Those ads are sorta embarrassing. There isn't an English term for what I mean. I mean, the PC dude is usually a dork and with no offense to her, she is too. ;-) Even if she looks cute while being a dork. And the Apple dude is a stuck up hipster. Go back to Brooklyn and write a movie script! Hehe...

    :D
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