Not sure who you are responding to, but this isn't what we were talking about..
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:43 AM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > John Hodgman and Justin Long are acting as computers. They're cartoon > characters, especially Hodgman, as always. Never once did they claim to be > real people--not actors, as did the actors pretending to be in real, > unrehearsed situations, in the MS commercials. > > John Hodgman is pretty funny. Reminds me of our old PC that I couldn't find > on the network last night because it disconnects from the network at random > times for no reason. The Macs rarely do that. The PCs do it all the time, if > they appear at all. Hmmm. Maybe the Apple ads are more real than the MS ads. > Yes! > > > You surely haven't missed the last 3 years of get a mac ads? >> > > > >> The difference between the Mac ads and the PC ads are obvious when you >> >>> consider the "Lauren" ad where she said she looked at Macs, but never >>> bothered to go into the Apple store long enough to look at anything. >>> OTOH, >>> the Apple PPC ads were exaggerated, but their comparisons were based on >>> benchmark tests, not actors pretending to be "real" people as in the MS >>> ads. >>> >> > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
