Comments on: Microsoft’s New Commercial: Windows is a Generic Equivalent to OS X

By: Muay Thai

Muay Thai — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:31:22 +0000

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By: Samsung’s Fake Real People vs. Microsoft’s Real Fake People

Samsung’s Fake Real People vs. Microsoft’s Real Fake People — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:04:17 +0000

[...] “true-life” Galaxy Tab fans who happen to be actors. To put things in perspective, he mentions Lauren, the star of a 2009 Microsoft “real person” ad who also had acting experience. (To be fair to [...]

By: Samsung’s Fake Real People vs. Microsoft’s Real Fake People

Samsung’s Fake Real People vs. Microsoft’s Real Fake People — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:38:44 +0000

[...] “true-life” Galaxy Tab fans who occur to be actors. To put things in perspective, he mentions Lauren, a star of a 2009 Microsoft “real person” ad who also had behaving experience. (To be [...]

By: Samsung’s Fake Real People Remind Me of Microsoft’s Real Fake People

Samsung’s Fake Real People Remind Me of Microsoft’s Real Fake People — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:28:27 +0000

[...] Galaxy Tab fans who happen to be actors. To put things in perspective, he mentions Lauren, the star of a 2009 Microsoft “real person” ad who also had acting experience. (To be [...]

By: Microsoft’s Latest PC-Mac Comparison is…Almost Reasonable

Microsoft’s Latest PC-Mac Comparison is…Almost Reasonable — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:01:54 +0000

[...] But the case it made for Windows PCs and against the Mac was touchy and evasive. It ran PC ads that knocked Macs as overpriced but couldn’t find anything nice to say about Windows. It got pointlessly insulting about Mac users. And it commissioned a white paper on the [...]

By: Jon Peterson

Jon Peterson — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:25:12 +0000

Incidentally, with your medicine example: the compelling argument should be "THEY'RE THE EXACT SAME THING, IN A DIFFERENT PACKAGE".

No really. The FDA requires generics to be chemically identical to the name-brand. As soon as generics for a particular medicine start showing up, it's financially unwise NOT to switch, because you are literally paying more for the exact same product.

By: memoer.net » » too-late-to-judge-the-lauren-effect-but-mac-grow

memoer.net » » too-late-to-judge-the-lauren-effect-but-mac-grow — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:13:36 +0000

[...] “PC Hunters” ads came too late in the quarter to register any impact that could be gauged in the survey. It will be until July or [...]

By: memoer.net » » four-more-get-a-mac-ads-no-direct-laptop-hunters

memoer.net » » four-more-get-a-mac-ads-no-direct-laptop-hunters — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:13:25 +0000

[...] written, one of the striking things about the “Laptop Hunters” series is that it makes no claims about Windows. The message is all about the specs and features you can get at a particular price point, and [...]

By: memoer.net » » Movie Avatar Starring – this-laptop-hunter-isnt-a-

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:12:21 +0000

[...] a Mac” ad out–and this one is the first one that would seem to respond directly to Microsoft’s “Laptop Hunters” ads and their snarky put-downs of Macs, since it involves a woman shopping for a computer and addresses [...]

By: talbog.com » Blog Archive » microsofts-new-windows-ads-theyre-a-trap-bwahaha

Thu, 27 May 2010 18:25:04 +0000

[...] new ads with shoppers spurning Macs for HP laptops too seriously. Mostly I’ve mused about why they seem to ignore Microsoft’s own contribution to the PC and used them as a springboard for PC-Mac price comparisons of my own. (I’m happy to say that [...]