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Old 2004-02-02, 03:29 AM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Apple's marketing department sucks


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
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Old 2004-02-02, 03:35 AM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Apple creates the illusion that Microsoft has competition. Don't expect first-class performance from a corporate mock-up.
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Old 2004-02-02, 03:37 AM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Old 2004-02-02, 03:46 AM   [Ignore Me] #4
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Originally Posted by Veteran
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.
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Old 2004-02-02, 05:03 AM   [Ignore Me] #5
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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.
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Old 2004-02-02, 12:18 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Wow, pepsi...
Hmmm...pepsi sucks
Apple sucks
It's like some sort of conspiracy
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Old 2004-02-02, 03:27 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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Originally Posted by Rayder
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?
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Old 2004-02-02, 03:30 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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It isn't. DEATH TO THE APPLE!
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Old 2004-02-02, 03:59 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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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.
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Old 2004-02-02, 05:39 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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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.
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.
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Old 2004-02-02, 05:48 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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thats stupid

theyre trying to make people buy pepsi rather than apple
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Old 2004-02-02, 05:49 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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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? 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
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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
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Old 2004-02-02, 08:55 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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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.
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Old 2004-02-03, 06:42 AM   [Ignore Me] #14
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....yeah but that chick was kinda cute wasn't she ?
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