Apple demanded Microsoft to stop its Laptop Hunters ads

[Slimy]

According to a Microsoft executive, Apple legal isn't too happy with Microsoft's Laptop Hunters ads.

Full Story: Apple demanded Microsoft to stop its Laptop Hunters ads - Ars Technica

 

[darkassain]

only $100?..:roflmao:
thanks for the story Slimy and even with this the ads as far as i know still stand...

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Lol this coming from Apple, famous for its 'Mac VS PC' ads.

 

[Klaw117]

HAHAHAHA! :roflmao: I think Apple's getting REALLY desperate now.

Microsoft's ads don't criticize anywhere NEAR as bad as the Apple ads. Plus, $100 is less than a TENTH of what they usually sell their computers for.

 

[KazeNoKoe23]

It's hilarious how butthurt Apple gets over these things.

 

[Joshatdot]

I wonder how Apple & MS would react to a commercial for Linux OS PC's

 

[sjaak327]

Not at all probably, no competition. Linux has a long long way in terms of user friendlyness.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I wonder how Apple & MS would react to a commercial for Linux OS PC's

Would be.. interesting, I remember seeing one commercial on Neowin for Linux, made me think of a paint program.

 

[Legacy Code]

Awww don't ya just feel sorry for em .....

Here ya go Apple heres an "iShoulder" to cry on lol.

 

[saverio]

I used to be a real Apple fanboy till I started playing with W7 beta.

And, my battlecry was always "it just works, well you pay more, but they last longer - don't date as quickly"

I recently tried to install a copy of OS X on my PC, and finally did it - I can honestly say no, your stuff doesn't 'just works' ... well it does, but the sentence isn't complete - it should be "it just works - on apple stuff"

It dawned on me, I needed a cooked bios, new driver kexts, and loads of messing around in order to get a retail paid for version of os x to run on my collection of bits in a case. Whatever jumble of junk I have in that case, I load W7, and it... just works!

I was discussing this with a friend of mine who still has his mac, and he preached to me like I preached to others in the past, it was a real deja-vu wierd moment.

I said look, I can build a really good powerful machine for under 700 gbp - I really want a mac pro but at over 2k, have you any idea what I could build for that money !!

The mac mini just doesn't cut it, and the imac- yep , i've had two, but i'm damned if i'm paying premium dollar for essentially a static laptop, however nice the screen is - and then Sony and HP offer the same form factor but with bigger screens and specs.

Don't get me wrong, I still love the mac OS X, I really think that there is nothing in W7 to beat coverflow for browsing folder contents or expose , or the disc utility, but their hardware comes at a real premium.

Said friend, bought a mac mini (600) with BT keyboard and mouse (100) and the new LED display (650) . . sure, it all looks lovely... but video editing? photoshop? Maya? nah.

I'm drifting, the Microsoft ads never confront apple head on, and in this case, the customer makes the observation, not MS - i'm sure it's scripted, but you get the gist.

How can apple say this, when their advertising campaing was a direct assault on the deficiencies of their competitor? If anything one could say that they,with the uneducated sensationalist media contributed to the failure that was Vista. I know lots of people who wont touch vista with a pole, but don't really know why.

I can see the next legal threat will be when Apple informers see Microsoft staff wearing a black roll neck in an ad. - Why pay 20 for a rollneck when you can charge 200? but hey, it just works.

 

[pestbest]

Apple wants Microsoft to stop its Laptop Hunter ads? Well, Microsoft has feelings too and they were being mean and spreading FUD about Microsoft also. I guess it serves them right.

 

[DataMan47]

So Apple can dish it, but it can't take it. Ha!

 

[Adamd]

So Apple can dish it, but it can't take it. Ha!

lol yep typical mac user.

I guess the company is as bad as the users

 

[patrickt]

Hey, if I hit you I'm just being assertive but if you hit me you're being aggressive. If I call you an idiot I'm eager to establish honest and meaningful communication but if you call me an idiot you're being abusive.

You guys just don't understand. Apple being nasty to Microsoft is called spirited competition but Microsoft being nasty to Apple is called mean-spirited.

 

[Klaw117]

But Microsoft's commercials aren't even nasty at all. It is just what the random customer thinks. Apparently, Microsoft says their commercials are unscripted and they ask random people.

The hilarious thing is that Apple is overreacting to a commercial that doesn't do any harm to it. If Microsoft does what Apple usually does in their ads, then it would be trouble because Microsoft is a monopoly while Apple isn't.

 

[DJG]

I think the most histerical advertisement I have ever seen was a 5-page ad on Newsweek magazine by Commodore showing how great the Amiga was and all the cool stuff it could do. Nowhere in the 5 pages was the name Amiga to be found. You read the thing and got excited , you drooled and panted for it , and you had no idea what it was or where or how you could get one ... - a cult classic of stealth advertisement, and it must have cost a pretty penny.

 

[Lordbob75]

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

GO MS!!!!

Anyways, yeah.
The best part about this is that the customers are looking for a computer, right? But they want to spend LESS than about $1500 (that is the highest I saw). So some of them go in the Apple store. Then they come out saying, that is not in the budget; we can't afford that! Then they go find a PC with BETTER specs, for $1350 or w/e.

Just to throw this out there, I don't think you can buy a Mac for $700. Not even their lowest end one.

~Lordbob

 

[Lebon14]

LOL.
I loved the ad. Apple is must be über jealous.

Only 100$?? Seriously. PCs doesn't need rabates : it's already cheap ^_^

EDIT

Keep going MS!

EDIT 2

btw, :

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C6F0DDC317078684

 

[schmoey]

I recently tried to install a copy of OS X on my PC, and finally did it - I can honestly say no, your stuff doesn't 'just works' ... well it does, but the sentence isn't complete - it should be "it just works - on apple stuff"

It dawned on me, I needed a cooked bios, new driver kexts, and loads of messing around in order to get a retail paid for version of os x to run on my collection of bits in a case. Whatever jumble of junk I have in that case, I load W7, and it... just works!

Mmm, I just can't agree with you for that. OS X isn't supposed to run on anything other than Apple hardware. In fact, it's part of their EULA (non-Apple PCs running Mac OS are called "Hackint0sh"s for a reason). It's almost like saying a Civic engine didn't work so well in an F-150.

 

[pestbest]

Hey, if I hit you I'm just being assertive but if you hit me you're being aggressive. If I call you an idiot I'm eager to establish honest and meaningful communication but if you call me an idiot you're being abusive.

You guys just don't understand. Apple being nasty to Microsoft is called spirited competition but Microsoft being nasty to Apple is called mean-spirited.

That doesn't make sense at all. So if Apple does it, there's nothing wrong. But when Microsoft does it, they are nasty? That's simply illogical. In case you don't know, Laptop Hunter ads do not criticize Apple. They simply show consumers others opinions of different products. There's nothing in the ads that Mac Fanatics can disagree with.