(Perhaps Pepsi should hire him as its CEO I seem to recall that the two companies have a long-standing relationship that way.) Here’s a guy who runs Apple's famous 1984 ad, which showed PC users imprisoned in an inflexible industry, from which Jobs and Apple promised to save us all: Macs would free us from PCs!
Much of the credit has to go to Steve Jobs as perhaps the computer industry’s marketeer extraordinaire. The Mac guy is almost friendly to the PC guy, often sympathetic to the PC guy for his limitations-but the sympathy is laced with just enough contempt to get the point across.
The PC guy is just enough of a loser, the Mac guy is just hip enough, and the resulting effect is that Apple is teasing Microsoft while not getting mean-spirited. To give credit where credit is due, the "Get a Mac" ad series is nothing short of brilliant. But, then again, I’d have to learn a bunch of new stuff and heck, I’m pretty busy these days, so I’d rather not. I’m sure the Apple world has room for at least one more consultant/speaker/trainer/author/columnist guy. Now, I don’t own Microsoft stock, and I’m not particularly a Microsoft cheerleader: If the company wants to yield the PC/OS field to Apple, hey, that's cool. I've wondered for a while now whether anyone from Microsoft has seen any of these ads? I’m assuming no one has, or we’d have seen some kind of return volley. Mac commercial, this one addressing User Account Control (UAC).
Will somebody please explain something to me? I just saw Apple's umpteenth "Get a Mac" PC vs.
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