> No obvious deception there as opposed to the > MS ad. FWIW, ads are not SUPPOSED to be > intentionally deceptive
As I noted earlier, the Mac ad showed MS spending ALL of its money marketing Vista and NONE of it improving Vista. This is obviously not true. So, the Mac ad was intentionally deceptive, was it not? > There are even laws that apply to that. Without studying these laws, I feel pretty confident in saying that they would apply to deceptive or false claims, not to staging. If the basic MS claim is accurate (and it is--you can't get a big screen laptop in an Apple store for $1000), it's a huge leap to imply that there's something that is actually illegal about the ad. If there is, then Justice (or whoever is supposed to be enforcing these laws) has really fallen down on the job because the overwhelming majority TV commercials must be illegal. In point of fact, that Mac ad was much closer to being deceptive than the MS ad. The claim it made was factually false, while the MS claim is true. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
