New Mac Ad Attacks Entire Windows Lineage
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Microsoft launched Windows 7 yesterday, and along with it a pretty neat ad for its I'm a PC campaign. However, Apple also released a new commercial yesterday.
Below is Apple's newly released commercial entitled, "Empty Promises." It seems that simply updating its notebook and desktop line in the same week as the Windows 7 launch wasn't enough for Apple, as the company's latest commercial aims to take Microsoft down a peg by reminding customers of days gone by.
Justin Long doesn't even mention Apple once. He just stands there while John Hodgman points out that there have been issues with every single Windows OS, going right back to Windows 2.
Check out the video below and let me know what you think.
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At least Carl's Jr puts on display their actual product in their ads, instead of just spending the entire time bashing the competition.
Can not even begin to compare this ad with the one from MS ...
Just a minor point: if the Mac OS would have been so flawless, why do we have so many versions of it? Unless they were trying to fix and improve on some problems of their own...
Stupid ad.
i also seen the one with that biatch saying she is moving to mac to avoid all the headaches. man wait till she sees snow leopard deleting all her photos
you think thats bad i found an OEM copy of windows ME that was never opened (and never will be )
Also I don't recall anyone saying that Windows Vista was meant to fix any problems that XP had excluding security maybe. It was meant to be an upgrade that offered more. Microsoft is more into improving Windows with new OS's and fixing problems with free service packs and upgrades unlike Apple which charges for their update packages. There's a reason Microsoft dominates the computer market. You can only teach an old dog so many tricks before it dies.
I've used Windows 7 beta and I will be ditching Vista for it real soon on all three desktops in our home with a family pack, but that doesn't change the fact that I still remember my top 100 computer horror stories all deal with some flavor of Windows giving me errors, blue screening, not running programs correctly after a service release and making me visit driver hell more times than I care to remember.
I still use it everyday, but it definitely a love-hate relationship.