[Swordmaker]

I always thought they could have taken a much, much better approach to selling their great products than denigrating the people they might have been trying to attract.

Then you missed the point of the ads. Those were NOT users of the respective platforms, but personifications of the computers themselves. "Hello, I'm a Mac" and "HI, I'm a PC" was the introduction to each and every one of the ads. . . not "Hi, I'm a Mac users" and "Hello, I'm a PC user." There was no denigration of any people going on in those ads. It was anthropomorphizing the machines.

[rlmorel]

LOL, well...nearly every person I ever talked to didn’t see it that way, including a lot of people who loved the campaign.

Thats kind of disingenuous, in my opinion. It is like someone insulting someone else, and when they take offense, say: “Hey, I was only joking!”

They knew they weren’t joking, and you knew they weren’t joking, but it is kind of the low road way out.

I never cared for it. That’s just my opinion.

But, I have been a Mac user since my first Mac SE. It was a lot of fun looking at those ads, I think I owned a device or devices from nearly every single one of them. And loved nearly all of them.

Even the 9500 that cost me a fortune, and nearly killed my fingers upgrading the RAM.