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