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>I also feel that their "if you can't compete on product, slander" negative ad campaigns (e.g., scroogled) will continue to hold Microsoft back as a company and
by nivla 13y ago
>I also feel that their "if you can't compete on product, slander" negative ad campaigns (e.g., scroogled) will continue to hold Microsoft back as a company and as a culture.
Well wouldn't the PC vs MAC ads be similarly slander? Apple got away with it, heck it even increased its sales, and for a long period of time, not only was it listed on Apple's website but it was also the general consensus that owning a MAC meant not worrying about viruses.
Despite most people (including me) disliking these slander commercials (especially political), they kept being made because they are effective and they work.
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQpPqPKbAw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQpPqPKbAw
- dewitt 13y agoEffective or not, I didn't like many of the more negative parts of the "Get a Mac" campaign at all, for all the same reasons.
- rbanffy 13y agoThe "Get a Mac" campaign portrayed the PC as a lovable, if incompetent and comic, laughable even, character. You can feel sympathy for him. The "Gmail Man" portrays Google doing some frankly disgusting things.
- nivla 13y ago>The "Get a Mac" campaign portrayed the PC as a lovable, if incompetent and comic, laughable even, character. That is totally subjective. Some may have viewed him as "lovable" but others viewed him as "ignorant", "unclassy" and "filthy" similar to how someone could take the "Gmail Man" as "funny", "sarcastic" and simply "nosy". [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMbQCom7VTY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMbQCom7VTY
- rbanffy 13y agoPC guy "filthy"?! Seriously?