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Microsoft Changes 'Laptop Hunters' Ad After Apple Complains
Advertising Age ^ | July 23, 2009 | By Rupal Parekh

Posted on 07/25/2009 4:14:16 PM PDT by Swordmaker

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To: TomServo
Ditto.


21 posted on 07/25/2009 5:08:34 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: PA Engineer

LOL!!


22 posted on 07/25/2009 5:14:12 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Sudetenland

No, it isn’t. I’ve had to use Wintel trash wherever I’ve worked, but have always bought Apple for the home. If you want to see liberalism in action, check out the Gates Foundation and then gauge your own reaction to the truth.


23 posted on 07/25/2009 5:15:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: TXnMA

/bingo


24 posted on 07/25/2009 5:16:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Swordmaker
I still think this is a tempest in a teapot. Apple lowered their prices and their legal department contacted MS and told them their ads were no longer accurate, please correct them. MS corrected them.

So, Kevin Turner does a speech where he claims it's the greatest phone call he ever got and he was doing cartwheels down the halls. I'm sorry, but WTF? If Joe's computer shack running out of his garage did a four dollar ad on Craigslist that said the cheapest MacBook pro was $2000, he'd get contacted by Apple's legal department also.

25 posted on 07/25/2009 5:24:14 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Dittos. I use PCs at my college where they pay for them and Macs at home where I pay for them.


26 posted on 07/25/2009 5:25:38 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Swordmaker

There is a saying,

“Buy the best. Then you only cry once.”


27 posted on 07/25/2009 5:29:48 PM PDT by zeebee
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To: TomServo

MST3K!


28 posted on 07/25/2009 5:32:30 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: Swordmaker

Microsoft took it like a man over those faggy “I’m a Mac” advertisements.

You’d think Apple could man up and take it, as well.

Pussies.


29 posted on 07/25/2009 6:55:21 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: antiRepublicrat

What, and Steve Jobs is not? Compared to Jobs, Gates is a right of center moderate.


30 posted on 07/25/2009 6:58:03 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
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To: Richard Kimball

Craigslist......

My local craigs list has a guy selling Mac clones out of his house (garage?)


31 posted on 07/25/2009 7:01:40 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: Terpfen

You might want to look at the post following yours. :D


32 posted on 07/25/2009 7:02:38 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
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To: dennisw

If Apple finds out, they’ll go after him.


33 posted on 07/25/2009 7:10:53 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Sudetenland

Saw them weeks ago. Doesn’t really prove anything, other than Obama was near a Mac a few times. You’ll note that in none of the photos is he actually using one. Furthermore, they do not prove your mindless assertion.

By the way, Bill Gates is a huge Democrat. Just a heads-up there.


34 posted on 07/25/2009 7:11:03 PM PDT by Terpfen (FR is being Alinskied. Remember, you only take flak when you're over the target.)
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To: Richard Kimball

He’s been selling home brewed Macs for a while


35 posted on 07/25/2009 7:18:41 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: Sudetenland

Ahhh.... so you’re now saying Apple computers — used by Liberals and Conservatives....

I get it now... they’re kinda like cars... you might find a liberal behind the steering wheel and you might find a conservative behind the steering wheel... LOL...

I would agree... except for one thing. Since conservatives are smarter than liberals, you’ll probably find more conservatives using the better computer — Apple.


36 posted on 07/25/2009 7:20:36 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: TomServo

Photoshopped. Head size is wrong.


37 posted on 07/25/2009 9:42:37 PM PDT by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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To: noblejones
Oh, get out!..;-)
38 posted on 07/25/2009 9:44:51 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Sudetenland

The point is that you are assigning politics to computers. Go ahead, find a politically pure OS to run.


39 posted on 07/25/2009 9:54:53 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: noblejones; TomServo
Photoshopped. Head size is wrong.

Unfortunately, the 0bama campaign did indeed use Macs, quite effectively too. 0bama, however, is a Blackberry phone user... He's not smart enough to know that iPhones are better!

40 posted on 07/25/2009 11:31:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker (remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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