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Jaged
2004-02-02, 03:29 AM
Don't get me wrong, I love macs (I know, I know. Ban me.) but I can't help but notice the crappy ads they keep cranking out. You probably all remember the Volkswagen / iPod add with the annoying hippie music. Check out their latest atrocity.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/pepsi/ads/superbowl320.html

Veteran
2004-02-02, 03:35 AM
Apple creates the illusion that Microsoft has competition. Don't expect first-class performance from a corporate mock-up.

SDM
2004-02-02, 03:37 AM
ban.

Jaged
2004-02-02, 03:46 AM
Apple creates the illusion that Microsoft has competition.
That is so true. Microsoft keeps apple alive for that reason, and that reason only. The interisting thing is that MS now has real competition in Linux. I hope they don't decide to swat away Apple and use Linux for that purpose.

Rayder
2004-02-02, 05:03 AM
Microsoft wouldn't have any competition, but the U.S. government said your not allowed to completley wipe out your opposition using legal tactics of buisness.

Sputty
2004-02-02, 12:18 PM
Wow, pepsi...
Hmmm...pepsi sucks
Apple sucks
It's like some sort of conspiracy

Jaged
2004-02-02, 03:27 PM
Microsoft wouldn't have any competition, but the U.S. government said your not allowed to completley wipe out your opposition using legal tactics of buisness.
Its not microsoft listens to this. (netscape comes to mind) If that is the only reason, how is Apple any different from all the other companies MS has chewed up and spit out?

Dharkbayne
2004-02-02, 03:30 PM
It isn't. DEATH TO THE APPLE!

Onizuka-GTO
2004-02-02, 03:59 PM
hehe. I heard that Apple been banned from showing that commercial of "Apple G5" is "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer" by the British Independent Television Commission because they said it was misleading consumers. :p

Cyanide
2004-02-02, 05:39 PM
hehe. I heard that Apple been banned from showing that commercial of "Apple G5" is "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer" by the British Independent Television Commission because they said it was misleading consumers. :p

I thought they weren't allowed to show it because it was just plain false advertising.

Apple sucks, I wish the government had let them get squashed and then subsidised some Linux developers. Apple almost died because they just had an inferior product that cost more money, ran slower, and ran about 10% of the software that is available for PC. Apple was not the little guy when MS started crushing them. MS had a better product and did not constrain the choices of cosumers by forcing proprietary hardware on people. Apple should stop making OSes and computers and just stick to peripherals.

About Linux. It's only competing with MS for business servers and such, and it's kicking MS's ass hardcore too (especially in the world of webservers), mostly because Linux costs a hell of a lot less, since all you're really paying for is technical support. It's also beating out MS for desktop use in many government agencies in other countries (not the US). Linux also has a larger desktop market share than Apple in the US now too. All the more reason for Apple to just give up. The world would be a better place if companies would stop making apps for Apple and start making apps for Linux.

Neon Apocalypse
2004-02-02, 05:48 PM
thats stupid

theyre trying to make people buy pepsi rather than apple

ZeusCali
2004-02-02, 05:49 PM
microsoft's public OS competition is apple
real competition Linux
MS public browser competition is netscape
real is mozilla the free-sorce REAL netscape
what else do they make? o well random stuff comp...
messenger
microsoft is AIM and MSN
competition is ICQ and Yahoo and oder stuff likely

emmmmmm lol
now seriously what does ms make? microsoft paint? :rofl: excuse me it's late i'm tired(23:48) and i don't have class till 11 whooo and mu english looky funny now :huh:
MS Earth
competition Mercury
Real Competition Mars :huh: :noclue: :lol:

btw did you know there is a car that ran on windows completely i mean it had control of locks and all.... ya you guess it ... locked everyone in the car in less then a week :lol:

AztecWarrior
2004-02-02, 08:55 PM
Die. This ad sucks in all possible ways. Designwise, this is a train wreck. It has the aesthetics and fluidity of the local sewage dump.

ZeusCali
2004-02-03, 06:42 AM
....yeah but that chick was kinda cute wasn't she ? :rofl: