Macboy Spoofs the New Apple Commercials 50
Spock the Baptist writes "A big plate of, fresh from the oven, homemade chocolate chip cookies to the person or persons who dreamed up this send-up of Cousin Bill via a spoof of the current crop of Apple commercials. Gotta love it!" Sure, why not? It's Friday! Also included are commercials with the You're Gettin' a Dell dork and Big Brother from the 1984 commercial.
Very Funny (Score:2)
I wonder if Apple will try to use these at all, perhaps as something included on some CDROM - I'm sure they'd be in trouble if they made the Dell parody themselves, but if someone else did it, I'd think it's fair game.
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Re:Switching to PCs (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Any application (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mac means no choice (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mac means no choice (Score:1)
You need a dedicated program for your baseball card collection? How big of a clueless geek are you? Just grab a free database app (like, say, Appleworks) and go.
Maybe the reason Mac users don't need baseball-card-collecting programs is because they're smart enough to realize they don't need one.
Re:...or nothing at all. (Score:2, Funny)
Similarly, people who are really into bass fishing... they use a boat, not a computer.
Now, people who are into downloading things because an epilapsy-inducing banner ad promised that it'd be the greatest program ever made, these are the people who use their computer to catch bass.
Re:If you cant do it on mac its not worth doing. (Score:1)
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Re:If you cant do it on mac its not worth doing. (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, wait...
Just wondering... (Score:1)
And then, remember the whole library of applications that the Mac can use from Unix
one word: gnu-darwin (Score:1)
Re:Switching to PCs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Switching to PCs (Score:1)
I used to have a Mac. Then I noticed how hard it was to network the things. Then they switched to a new interface and I had to learn it all over again. Then I noticed how slow it ran and how it was draining all of my money. Now I use Windows. Not only is it the same user interface I've been using at work for the past 7 years, but now I know that I'm not fueling Steve Job's crack habit.
My name is Bob, and I work in the real world.
Uhhhh... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Uhhhh... (Score:2)
True, but the commercial aired during the year 1984, during the Superbowl, in fact.
Re:Uhhhh... (Score:1)
Re:Uhhhh... (Score:1)
Re:Uhhhh... (Score:1, Insightful)
Or are you just attempting poorly to look smart?
Seems a little familiar... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:More amusing parodies (Score:2, Insightful)
A MACINTOSH WILL NOT CRASH, EVER! (Score:1)
Man, I laughed so hard at that!
I can remember using Macs in high school and the damn things were always showing that damn "system bomb" message "Sorry, a system error occurred." Of course, the Macs and MacOS of today are a hell of a lot more stable and don't do stupid shit like that, but still, that brought back memories!
Man, who was the waste of flesh who modded that down as "offtopic"? Maybe it was Pudge! I've noticed just about all posts even remotely critical of Apple or the Mac are summarily modded down, very quickly. Definitely editor moderation. Perhaps Slashdot is trying to create their own little Mac-zealot community here, and suppressing the dissidents is necessary to make the Mac zealots comfortable. Perhaps they're trying to become the Apple weblog. Perhaps they're the ones who "stole" the original MacSlash domain, in an attempt to hobble the competition...!
"A MACINTOSH WILL NOT CRASH, EVER!" I sure hope Apple doesn't attempt to use a slogan like that...
OK, you can mod me down now and continue living in your fake little Mac world.
Re:A MACINTOSH WILL NOT CRASH, EVER! (Score:1)
It should be noted that I'm a hard-core Mac user too, just pointing out an observation I've noticed. Hell, I even used to be a Mac zealot back in the day (although not an Evangalista). I've since aged, and mellowed out a bit.
Oh god, I'm just like the dell dude :( (Score:5, Funny)
Me and the dell dude think alike. I hang my head in shame
Who thinks the switch ads are good? (Score:3, Interesting)
Now I'm not any kind of professional ad critic but what I've seen from the commercials is "Hello, I'm a looser but I bought a Mac so things are looking up."
First, who's going to believe an Apple ad that Apple computers are easier/better to use? I mean, personally, I'd much rather believe that cow.
Second, why do these ad characters seem so stressed to me? The guy in glasses has that strange look in his face that says something like "dude, I have to vomit."
I've heard people describe marketing campaigns as brilliant before -- but maybe some people just love being advertised to?
Switch Ads Suck (Score:2)
Yeah, I agree, they don't look real, they look like they've been bought and paid for. And they sound like the more stupid specimen of our species. Most of them have to think about what their names and titles are for gods sake!
I'd like to see an ad with the programmer dude showing us on his screen why he likes programming on OS X better; I'd like to see the DJ chick show us how she uses her Mac for DJing. Not just a bunch of paid people saying "Hey they're great, trust me, and they're pretty, get them!".
Re:Switch Ads Suck (Score:2)
Yeah, I agree, they don't look real, they look like they've been bought and paid for.
Well, you're half correct: they *are* paid for, but they're real and not "bought". A close friend of mine was one of those called out by Apple to meet with the ad people and shoot a spot for the series. He later did some voiceover work for them (radio spots, I assume).
Perfectly normal guy; a "real" person. Yes, he was paid for rights to broadcast what they had recorded of him for the promo spots. No, that doesn't mean they bought him to use as a puppet. He just told them why he liked his TiBook and iPod.
Then again, he didn't make the final cut for the present collection of spokespeople, and he's not certain they were planning on airing more people at a later date... :p
Re:Who thinks the switch ads are good? (Score:1)
Re:Who thinks the switch ads are good? (Score:2)
What's really funny is how well a Bill Gates ad would fit in!
Re:Who thinks the switch ads are good? (Score:2)
I work as an admin for an ad agency and date a copy writer and all the ad wizards I know say the new Apple campaign is TOO cerebral and elitist. Funny enough, I think you hit it at the end; yes, some people like being advertised to and those people are not us. We - the jaded, cynical, intellegent, educated, tech-savvy types - are not the target of these campaigns. Virtualy no campaigns are aimed at us because we are an ad targeter's nightmare. So instead they - wisely - just let guys like Avie Tevanian and Jordan Hubbard geek out in public: seems to work OK.
aha (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:aha (Score:1)
Re:aha (Score:1)
that was beautiful.
now i've just got to clean the shithole that is my room, so that i may get my grad present - a superdrive iMac