Apple kills the "Get a Mac" ad campaign

It’s funny that even though the PC Fanboys heralded the
“Get a Mac” campaign as a failure, Apple’s market share actually doubled after the campaign premiered.

And confirmation bias? Is that anything like how the PC Fanboys go on and on about how much they hate Apple every day and the other haters chime in and rank them up, like they regularly do on this site?

Yup, sure did. Nobody got one anyway.

The Mac is just a tired old Unix clone with a flashy UI.

I use a Mac at work, and while I primarily use a PC at home I own several other Mac products. So while I am a fan of Apple I still found these ads were really corny. They’re so over the top it’s ridiculous. And the only people I know that laughed at them were pretty much dweebs beyond all redemption.

If you’re even remotely tech saavy you know these ads were pure BS anyway. Macs don’t get malware? Please. And painting PC users as brainless idiots that struggle to complete the most basic computing tasks is kind of ironic seeing as making things simple (e.g. dumbing it down for the average person) is kind of Apple’s specialty.

So yea, good riddance.

(Double) posted from a PC, perhaps?

Actually confirmation for Mac users comes everyday with productivity that you can’t achieve on a PC. Gosh, how do I NOT miss all the crashes and blue screens and crap I had with my old ThinkPads.

Agreed… as much as I think apple is a huge scam designed to charge computer novices 3x extra for a computer with specs from 2 years ago, I hate the Windows 7 commercials.

Microsoft should just show a PC priced at 499 and a mac priced at 2,499 and say “Any questions?”.

And the Apple haters say Apple’s commercials were BS. Don’t you think Microsoft’s ads are BS???

Well played my good friend well played…..

Big people talk about ideas
medium people talk about things
little people talk about other people….

And what about Car Ads? When Hyundai claims to have a better paint job than a Mercedes? They put down each other? What about Coke vs Pepsi?

Companies are always comparing and saying they are better than the other.

Talk about hypocritical. Next time keep it shorter. Just say you “I hate Apple period”. That way you’d save us time reading you lame excuse. Keep it real. Okay? Okay.

I like putting others down when they think they are all that when they are not, or when they’re lying. Especially when they’re lying. Picking on others just for the sake of picking on others is lame though.

Hey – get off your tuckus, go into a store, and test-drive the mac yourself. That’s the only way you can know how it was “all that”. Apple knew that no one can “show” certain kinds of performance attributes in an ad.

I’m sure YOU must be that guy who buys cars after only looking at the ads – do you get excited by the engine revving sounds – does it make you think you can drive the same? Do you ever test-drive a product before buying it? You cannot know a product by looking at only the ad – and Apple knows that too – so they were not going to waste time for people like you, trying to show them the benefits of a Mac over a PC, in an ad. They expect open-minded people would walk over to a store, and do a test-drive themselves. But surely you don’t fit that bill. That is why you wrote your comment.

You’re the kind of chap who would also tell Coca-cola to “show” you the benefits of coke over pepsi, right? Your coke ad would say: “Buy coca-cola because it has only 94% of the sweetener content, and 59% (by volume, not by weight) of acidic monomers – as compared to our nearest competitor Pepsi.” Yeah, very convincing!

PLEASE THINK BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH.

Yes and no. Yes, very successful and profitable campaign, I agree. The only issue I had with them was that they were completely false. Every argument they made that Apple was better, well, Windows machines had the same function.

Example, Apples automated “timewarp” or whatever they coin their backup, Windows has had way before in system restore and backups with Vista. Apples being “More secure” is skewed due to sheer lack of numbers of systems sold, and hackers are not going to waste time creating viruses that only effect 10% of computers.

Oh and the “do you accept or deny” buttons they were making fun of? You have to type the entire admin password anytime you install anything on a mac, that to me is way more annoying.

I will miss the commercials though, they were funny.

Lol, nicely put. Galaxy Quest is hilarious. It was also nice too see AT&T finally get rid of those god awful Luke Wilson commercials.

First of all market share and market value are two different things. Secondly, Apple’s increases market VALUE is primarily attributed to iPhone/iPod/iPad.So these Mac vs PC ads had very little to do with their success which were referring to computers (Mac vs. Windows).

So I guess if someone gave you a free car and asked if you wanted a Yugoslavian Yugo el-cheapo or a German engineered driving machine — you’d choose the Yugo, RIGHT?

‘Cus, as you said, “its always a good price”!

As long as it’s a good price, f*(% quality!!! Rejoice world, cus me-too cheapo clone PCs (that only work half the time) are here to stay — and crash!!! (mine crashed a 4th time today — BLUE is now my fav color). I love cheap technology – at least now my LCD screen won’t burn-in from the pretty blue screens.