Monday, February 05, 2007

This article was hilarious.

Favorite bit:

"Cue 10 years of nasal bleating from Mac-likers who profess to like Macs not because they are fashionable, but because "they are just better". Mac owners often sneer that kind of defence back at you when you mock their silly, posturing contraptions, because in doing so, you have inadvertently put your finger on the dark fear haunting their feeble, quivering soul - that in some sense, they are a superficial semi-person assembled from packaging; an infinitely sad, second-rate replicant who doesn't really know what they are doing here, but feels vaguely significant and creative each time they gaze at their sleek designer machine. And the more deftly constructed and wittily argued their defence, the more terrified and wounded they secretly are."
"I don't think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are," said Gates. "And I don't know why [Apple is] acting like it's superior. I don't even get it. What are they trying to say?" He continued, "Does honesty matter in these things, or if you're really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There's not even the slightest shred of truth to it." -Bill Gates

OH SNAP APPLE!

He speaks the truth though. I don't understand how calling PC users idiots and comparing them to midlife crisising "dullars" would make people want to switch. Time for a new marketing tactic. Yes OS X is pretty good, but it's not half the things they claim. It's all about what you use your system for.
My favorite superbowl commercial this year:


All my friends hated it, and there definitely was a sadistic feel to half the commercials that aired. Something was just really funny and this commercial stuck with me.

Props to the Coke Grand Theft Auto ripoff. I really liked that one too.


Props to these as well: