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Guest Post :: Thoughts About Microsoft’s Current Ad Campaign

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Ben Stevens Posted in Guest Posts, Mac vs. PC 2 Comments
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The following Guest Post is from one of my readers and fellow attorney, Kurt Gibson, in response to the current "anti-Mac" ads being run by Microsoft:

I just saw the Microsoft ad (for the hundredth time) where the announcer states that the buyer gets a budget to purchase a laptop. The buyer looks at the Macs and says they are too much money, or too small, or not enough memory, or she is not cool enough to be a mac person, etc. The buyer purchases the PC with the announcer’s money. I am sure you have seen the commercials.

I suppose everyone would purchase a windoze computer if Microsoft gave it to them free. I would do the same thing, but the following day I would put the brand new computer on eBay and use the money toward the purchase of a Mac.

Apple should run a knock-off ad where the buyer takes the announcer’s money, adds a few hundred from his or her pocket, and buys the better laptop — the Mac.

Kurt Gibson opened his practice in Anderson, SC in 1995, and he focuses on bankruptcy and litigation. His law practice uses Macs exclusively, although he must use Parallels and Windows XP for one bankruptcy program that does not have a Mac flavor.

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2 thoughts on “Guest Post :: Thoughts About Microsoft’s Current Ad Campaign”

  1. Chris says:
    September 8, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    I remember when Bud did this to Miller. Miller had those refs who would run in and confiscate the Bud beers and replace them with Miller. Well Bud ran an ad where the refs had to pry the Bud Beers from the surprised individuals hands. The Miller Refs than went into the back of their van and started drinking the Buds laughing about how they stole the Buds.

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  2. Kurt says:
    September 10, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    Chris — The Bud commercial is hilarious. I wish I had seen that one.
    Apple’s new commercial (where PC guy is dressed up in the Mac guy suit and recommends the PC) sort of addresses my originally post. I saw the commercial after posting my original comment.
    I still would like to see a commercial where the laptop shopper double crosses the announcer or argues with him about why he or she cannot use the money for the better laptop.

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