Not my words - they're from the story I linked to. Next time you want to jump down someone's throat - check it's justified first.
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"Im a pc" ad's actually REALLY annoying!!!
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Not my words - they're from the story I linked to. Next time you want to jump down someone's throat - check it's justified first.
Hi, I'm a PC. I don't have anything good to say about myself so I will just take $300 million and use it to let everyone know that they already use me which is a total waste because they are already using me and they know it. In my ad campaign I will tear down the very walls that make my OS safe and private so that everyone can attack me via the internet. I will lie in order to get people to admit that I am good although the good that I am is just eye candy that I put on top of something that already worked that I poked fun at Apple in the past for using when going to OS X just so I can milk everyone out of another $300. Then I will take that $300 and put it towards the ad campaign for Windows 7 which will really be just XP with the looks of Vista without DOS. Then I will take the profits off of mom and pop who bought Windows 7 and use it to pay off some small country that has less capita than me so that they only use Windows. When making Windows 7 I will attempt to outdo my previous best and make an OS so impossible to navigate, so insecure, so automated that will make illegal operation errors found in Windows 98 look like jaywalking in Mayberry, that I will prove to the world that the only reason I have had an existence over the past three decades is because developers keep writing programs for me and I will use their hard work to hold everyone hostage and claim the right to the bestest OS ever to infinity and beyond.
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Computers, tampons, dick pills, and beer - staples of advertising, day in and day out.
I have always hated those...Wish I could just ripped them out of my TV...
..I actually have a PC friend who's the exact opposite of me. Everything I love about mac is being hated by him and everything he loves about PC I hated so much that I want to punch his brain out...*arggh*. Every now and then I would see his laptop crashes unexpectedly or freezes out of the blue..WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT THOSE LAME LAPTOPS.....*>.>*
..I actually have a PC friend who's the exact opposite of me. Everything I love about mac is being hated by him and everything he loves about PC I hated so much that I want to punch his brain out...*arggh*. Every now and then I would see his laptop crashes unexpectedly or freezes out of the blue..WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT THOSE LAME LAPTOPS.....*>.>*
A previous poster hit the nail on the head with these and exactly what i think when I watch this.
99.5% of PC users have only ever used a PC, they don't know of anything else. So of course they are PC's, why Microsoft feel the need to preach to an audience that already use PC's I don't know, the adverts don't even tell you anything about PC's, what's good about them, why these people use PC's instead of .... instead of what? ( that's the reaction of the majority of people )
I've yet to find a Mac user who hasn't or doesn't use windows. I use XP when I have to. Plenty use it at work etc but we choose to use OSX because we prefer it. Rather than just using it because that's all we know so these I'm a PC adverts will do nothing to switch mac users to a PC.... and that's the only conceivable target I can think these ad's were made for baring making Microsoft feel better about themselves.
The I'm a mac adverts work because they stretch out and define what a mac is to PC users who don't know what a mac is and what it does. They may be stereotypical but it works to define the brand while giving people information on the difference and benefits to switching to a mac.
The microsoft ad's confirm to me that Bill gates uses a mac, that some guy with a headband uses a PC, some guy who wears jeans and that fatality uses a PC to game on....
They should have focused on the benefits of PC's, what PC's can do, how easy they can do it, the features of the OS over the likes of OSX or XP.......I can see why they came up with what they did.
99.5% of PC users have only ever used a PC, they don't know of anything else. So of course they are PC's, why Microsoft feel the need to preach to an audience that already use PC's I don't know, the adverts don't even tell you anything about PC's, what's good about them, why these people use PC's instead of .... instead of what? ( that's the reaction of the majority of people )
I've yet to find a Mac user who hasn't or doesn't use windows. I use XP when I have to. Plenty use it at work etc but we choose to use OSX because we prefer it. Rather than just using it because that's all we know so these I'm a PC adverts will do nothing to switch mac users to a PC.... and that's the only conceivable target I can think these ad's were made for baring making Microsoft feel better about themselves.
The I'm a mac adverts work because they stretch out and define what a mac is to PC users who don't know what a mac is and what it does. They may be stereotypical but it works to define the brand while giving people information on the difference and benefits to switching to a mac.
The microsoft ad's confirm to me that Bill gates uses a mac, that some guy with a headband uses a PC, some guy who wears jeans and that fatality uses a PC to game on....
They should have focused on the benefits of PC's, what PC's can do, how easy they can do it, the features of the OS over the likes of OSX or XP.......I can see why they came up with what they did.