Apple tries to gatecrash Win 7 launch with new commercials

[Tanith]

In the light of Microsoft releasing their brand new operating system, Windows 7, Apple did not stay quiet. Apple released three new "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" advertisements, focusing on users switching from Windows to Mac, in an attempt to pick up some more market share from upgrading consumers.

The advertisements focus more on consumers who are looking to upgrade their home PC, to go buy a Mac, rather than the usual commercials that depict the faults of Windows. The first of the advertisements attempt to bash Windows 7 on launch day, saying it will have the same problems as previous versions of Windows.

The other two advertisements focus more on users moving from PC to Mac, for the customer service and customer satisfaction.

This isn't the first time Apple has tried to spoil the Windows 7 launch, earlier this week Apple refreshed some of their MacBook and iMac lineup

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Apple tries to gatecrash Win 7 launch with new commercials

[Ensign Riles]

I've always enjoyed those commercials because of their sillyness, but those last three seem a bit desperate for me. Granted I haven't used XP, but since when were there mass complaints about it? If anything, I thought the complaints were about having to move away from it.

[Inyri Forge]

I haven't actually seen any of those commercials on TV, which seems curious.

[Zamamee]

Fucking Macfags are really starting to piss me off with this smear campaign.

[Count_Chocu1a]

Yeah, these are the Lamest. Their new smear: If you have to migrate all of your files from XP, you might as well just get a Mac instead....& pay $2000 instead of $90-$199 dollars depending on the version of 7 you get...& lets not forget that alot of your Windows programs won't work on a Mac...they forgot to mention that...Oh, & forget about gaming...lol. If Apple actually showed off how it was better though its user interface, or productivity, or memory usage & such, I think it would be a better campaign...instead they give us schoolyard antics of "My dad is bigger than your dad..." Total Fail.

[Junk angel]

I still love how they rather not mention snow leopard though :P
Mention underwhelmed on that front.

[computernerd]

Originally Posted by Zamamee

Fucking Macfags are really starting to piss me off with this smear campaign.

Originally Posted by Junk angel

I still love how they rather not mention snow leopard though :P
Mention underwhelmed on that front.

Yeah, they should talk about how it erases all your data when you log on to a guest account.

[nazoa93]

I think the first couple commercials were the funniest, and the best, because they still actually said something that made the Mac better, whereas now it's degenerated into nothing but "PC sucks get a Mac instead"

[*The.Doctor]

Meh, i thought they were kind of funny. Its sad though that those ads make all the PC-freaks act like every Mac user is like that.

[computernerd]

Originally Posted by *The.Doctor

Its sad though that those ads make all the PC-freaks act like every Mac user is like that.

I know, most Mac users I've seen have probably only used Windows XP/Vista for maybe a week, yet they always say "Well this is so much better than that Windows operating system."