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1984 ad remade..new Dictator: Steve Jobs
- bayleo 17y agoThese guys are obviously savvy marketers. This isn't their first stunt... http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/05/apple-gets-pwned-sf-store-is-now-advertising-dvd-jons-doubletwist/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/05/apple-gets-pwned-sf-sto... Now if only they had a product that did something beyond letting you use iTunes with non-Apple devices. The user base for this won't be remarkably large (non tech-savvy people who have owned iPods in the past but who are now switching to a generic player).
- borism 17y agoyou bet they are - after all DoubleTwist was founded by Jon Lech Johansen.
- stcredzero 17y agoI wonder if Apple would be able to buy them off?
- prabodh 17y agois it not a very bold commercial from Doubletwist..will they be able to reach the expectations..anyone tried the product ?
- barrkel 17y agoI installed doubleTwist some time ago, thinking the point was to unlock AAC content so I could play it on non-Apple stuff. (It was just an experiment; I have exactly 1 DRM'd AAC file.) However, it seemed to come along with a whole social networking thingummy, and I couldn't really solve the very simple specific problem that - I thought - it was supposed to solve. After about 90 seconds, I uninstalled it.
- CrLf 17y agoOh, the "social network included" syndrome...
- proee 17y agoI thought she was throwing a Zune logo for a second!
- idm 17y agoHa! Great commercial, but I wonder if it's really for the audience, or more for the clever zing that is aimed at the egos inside Apple. Basically, the ad is an epic troll, which makes me smile, but leaves me wondering if it will effectively convert people.
- jsz0 17y agoIt doesn't really make sense. Apple was offering a competing hardware/software product to the IBM PC -- they were not writing software for IBM PCs as an alternative to MS-DOS.
- abossy 17y agoThe idea is that they're acting against a "tyrant."