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Apple to Microsoft: Stop with the ads (Apple look like losers while MSFT laughs)
Seattle Slimes ^ | July 15, 2009 | Sharon Chan

Posted on 07/17/2009 2:43:34 PM PDT by max americana

Apple to Microsoft: Stop with the ads

Posted by Sharon Pian Chan Seattle Times

Microsoft said it received a call from Apple saying Microsoft needs to stop running the laptop-hunter TV ads that harp on Apple for expensive computers. Why? Because Apple has lowered its prices.

That's according to Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, who said he took a call from an Apple attorney. two weeks ago. He initially thought it was a practical joke, then said he found out Apple had cut prices on its computers.

"It was the greatest single phone call that I’ve ever taken in the history of business," Turner said in a presentation at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference in New Orleans. "I did cartwheels down the hallway."

I have a call in to Apple.

The television ads feature people shopping for a laptop and comparing prices on PCs and Macs. According to Microsoft, PCs have gained market share since the ads began running.

The ads were a response to Apple's relentless "I'm a Mac" ads teasing Microsoft mostly aboutproblems with Windows Vista. Click here to read about the Microsoft laptop hunter ads and check out the ad below:

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; mac; microsoft
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Did Apple recieve a call from MSFT lawyers about their "mean" "I'm a PC and I'm a Mac" ads?
1 posted on 07/17/2009 2:43:35 PM PDT by max americana
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To: max americana

These are great ads by Microsoft.


2 posted on 07/17/2009 2:45:20 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: max americana

Probably. I wouldn’t be surprised if this sort of thing goes on back and forth between the companies.


3 posted on 07/17/2009 2:46:38 PM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: max americana

I watched the PC hunter commercial. I thought it was a really well-done piece!

Maybe Microsoft should lay off of the adverts, though. Do they really want to have to bail out Apple again?


4 posted on 07/17/2009 2:47:28 PM PDT by BattleHymn
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To: max americana

What a cry baby company.


5 posted on 07/17/2009 2:47:32 PM PDT by svcw (Barry: mentally deficient & narcissistic misogynist megalomaniac psychopath w/ paranoid delusions)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Certainly better than those strange Seinfeld ads.


6 posted on 07/17/2009 2:47:39 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

It’s like APPLE can dish it out with their “I’m a PC” ads but CANT take the criticism.


7 posted on 07/17/2009 2:51:12 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

>>These are great ads by Microsoft.<<

I am anything but a microsoft rooter, but I agree. Great ads are great ads.

If you are not a gamer, you can get a good pc for under $500. My wife’s was $420 at fryes. She uses it all over the country and even at work. I dumped the trial version of microsoft office and loaded OpenOffice immediately.


8 posted on 07/17/2009 2:51:20 PM PDT by RobRoy (This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
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To: max americana

The laptop-hunter ads are well made. Somebody somewhere at some ad agency did some job.


9 posted on 07/17/2009 2:51:39 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Who is Jim Thompson?)
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To: BattleHymn
"...Do they really want to have to bail out Apple again?..."

Yeah, that "anti-trust insurance" was really expensive last time. Probably cost them about 3 hours' revenue.

10 posted on 07/17/2009 2:51:55 PM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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To: max americana

... who’s ox is being gored...

Apple yelps because of the laptop-hunter TV ads.

Yet, Apple was the one behind all those Window freezing and VISTA problem ads.

[Suck it up, Apple.]


11 posted on 07/17/2009 2:53:43 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: max americana

It appears that apple is just like most of its supporters :)


12 posted on 07/17/2009 2:58:50 PM PDT by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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To: RobRoy

Did the same thing.


13 posted on 07/17/2009 3:00:23 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: max americana

As many around here will tell you, if you don’t have and love your Mac, you just aren’t with it. It’s not a tool, it’s an identity. And it doesn’t matter what it costs. No matter how much it is, it’s worth it. (disclaimer: I like Macs very much)


14 posted on 07/17/2009 3:00:29 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Minn

Apple just needs to chill and run an add about ongoing costs MS has that MAC doesn’t. Like antivirus related stuff, time lost to patching and patch blowups, etc. Course, that may not help them much, I don’t know.


15 posted on 07/17/2009 3:11:24 PM PDT by DonaldC
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Cost for AV, anti-SPyware, anti-Malware, patches etc free.

Not exactly going to be a huge hit unless they want to be completely dishonest.

Time lost prior to patching is a guessing game anyways. After all I can’t remember the last time an unpatched MS OS caused me any downtime.


16 posted on 07/17/2009 3:16:27 PM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: max americana; Swordmaker

Ummm..., time to call up the Apple Ads... LOL...

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

You might want to catch some iPhone ads, while you’re at it... :-)

http://www.apple.com/iphone/gallery/ads/


17 posted on 07/17/2009 3:18:13 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: RobRoy

you can get good deals on craigslist if you know what to look for.


18 posted on 07/17/2009 3:34:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: max americana
Why? Because Apple has lowered its prices.

Looks like the ads are working. Keep it up. I want a new Mac.

19 posted on 07/17/2009 3:36:59 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (Your government has harmed mankind more than all the evil done by evil men in the name of my God.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The first since whenever. I wonder if in the $1000 they include all the software she’s going to have to buy? Nope.


20 posted on 07/17/2009 3:47:27 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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