The ads Apple is doing to poke fun at Vista and promote Leopard are
wickedly on. I just wish Leopard ran on my new PC and ran the latest
Java. I would buy Leopard for myself as an early Christmas present.
It should not be too long now that Apple has flipped to Intel chips.

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Roedy Green wrote:
> The ads Apple is doing to poke fun at Vista and promote Leopard are
> wickedly on. I just wish Leopard ran on my new PC and ran the latest
> Java. I would buy Leopard for myself as an early Christmas present.
> It should not be too long now that Apple has flipped to Intel chips.
>


Actually, the Apple ads I've seen aren't really advertisements, at all.
They do effectively poke fun at Vista by grossly exaggerating a few
problems, but utterly fail to offer any reasons to use an Apple; they
don't mention a single, solitary "feature" of the Apple products. If I
didn't know better, I'd think they were just more of the usual political
attacks spots.


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> The ads Apple is doing to poke fun at Vista and promote Leopard are
> wickedly on.

They do make Windows look silly, but they also show
the popular Apple mentality in a bright light that's not so
flattering. Is there anything more annoying than the
tragically hip, fashionably non-conformist, desperately
relaxed, and calculatedly spontaneous style of the
Mac-user persona in the ad? I imagine a young Oregonian
yuppie who likes to think different, living in the woods in a
solar house, who jumps into his SUV to go buy lunch at
McDonalds, make a withdrawal from his trust fund, buy
some new jeans that look pre-hiked-in, and pick up a CD
of "cool" whale song to listen to later, over a joint and a
cup of herb tea (containing the latest fashionable
Andean rain forest wonder drug). ... The life of a
transcendentally discerning consumer.


> I just wish Leopard ran on my new PC and ran the latest
> Java. I would buy Leopard for myself as an early Christmas present.
> It should not be too long now that Apple has flipped to Intel chips.
>

Don't hold your breath. They tried that once and
lost money.

"Roedy Green" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The ads Apple is doing to poke fun at Vista and promote Leopard are
> wickedly on. I just wish Leopard ran on my new PC and ran the latest
> Java. I would buy Leopard for myself as an early Christmas present.
> It should not be too long now that Apple has flipped to Intel chips.
>

Oh yes, Apple is just so cool. I wish I was cool enough to join their club.
I want Lord Stevie Jobs to control everything about my computer. He can tell
me what software I can install. He can tell me whether I can upgrade my
hardware or not. Well, its "not" because Apple is perfect as is and there
can never be a need to upgrade.

**** Steve Jobs and Apple. They treat their customers like crap. They are
secretive, monopolistic, and can never admit that they are less than God's
gift to consumers. They are everything the Apple fan bois accuse Microsoft
of being.

dzomlija wrote:
>
> I'm a Vista fan, to be sure, but the Apple ads are wicked cool! You
> wouldn't happen to know of any downloadable videos of Microsoft ads
> that poke fun at Apple?

Basic business advertising practice discourages the market leader from even
MENTIONING the competition, except in the rarest and most neutral way.
Otherwise:

--- Screenplay ---

Scene: Lush garden. Naked couple. Snake. Woman offers man an apple.

He eats.

Sky darkens. Thunder. Wind.

Couple looks distressed. Tries to cover nakedness. Snake grins.

[Voice over] "Had it not been for an apple, we wouldn't need computers."

search around...there's all kinds of hacks floating around that make it
possible to install leopard on a pc (non apple supported, of course)

"Roedy Green" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The ads Apple is doing to poke fun at Vista and promote Leopard are
> wickedly on. I just wish Leopard ran on my new PC and ran the latest
> Java. I would buy Leopard for myself as an early Christmas present.
> It should not be too long now that Apple has flipped to Intel chips.
>
> --
> Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
> The Java Glossary
> http://mindprod.com

<snip>

They treat their customers like crap. They are
> secretive, monopolistic, and can never admit that they are less than God's
> gift to consumers. They are everything the Apple fan boys accuse Microsoft
> of being.

Now Now Bill, stop making up stories.

Where can they be seen?


"Roedy Green" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The ads Apple is doing to poke fun at Vista and promote Leopard are
> wickedly on. I just wish Leopard ran on my new PC and ran the latest
> Java. I would buy Leopard for myself as an early Christmas present.
> It should not be too long now that Apple has flipped to Intel chips.
>
> --
> Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
> The Java Glossary
> http://mindprod.com

"Core2Duo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Where can they be seen?
>

TV? and of course Apple.com