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Apple fires 'smug little twit'
The Inquirer ^ | 11/9/2006 | Nick Farell

Posted on 11/09/2006 5:37:46 PM PST by Vermonter

No the other one

By Nick Farrell: Thursday 09 November 2006, 08:51

MAKER OF entertainment gear, Apple has decided to dump its 'Mac Guy' advertisements because the character is a 'smug little twit'. According to Radar Online, the advertising campaign was designed to show a PC guy and a Mac Guy talking about the advantages of their different systems. Of course the Mac Guy was supposed to win the argument.

Alas while viewing audiences felt that while the Mac Guy may have proved his case, most of them wanted to pummel the smug little twit into a coma and jump on his bleeding body until the cops arrived.

In fact most of them liked the PC guy, John Hodgman, better, which was not really the point.

The Mac Guy was Justin Long, whose agent has confirmed that he is no longer hawking Macs for Apple and was getting on with his memorable film career. When the ads came out, Seth Stevenson, ad critic for Slate, complained that Long was just the sort of unshaven, hoodie-wearing, hands-in-pockets hipster we've always imagined when picturing a Mac enthusiast.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: apple; appleguy; arrogantpuke; mac; macguy; pcguy; twit
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To: Sicon; William Tell

And Matthew Broderick's computer was an IMSAI. :)


201 posted on 11/10/2006 1:21:52 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
It amazes me what passes for 'a real job' these days.

It amazes me what passes for a "operating system" these days

202 posted on 11/10/2006 1:49:48 PM PST by The SISU kid (Apple, it's not an operating system, it's a cult!)
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To: Echo Talon; TET1968
It wasn't that bad... Apple only has 4%

6.1% according to Gartner:

But that is just one quarter's sales... (which are up 31% year over year while Dell's sales are down 7%)... the real percentage of Mac users may be revealed in the fact that Macintosh software comprises over 18% of all software sold, according to the Software and Information Industry Association. In addition, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent of computer users are on Macs.

203 posted on 11/10/2006 8:33:52 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker
5.21%
204 posted on 11/10/2006 8:38:12 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon

Just Windows 2000 by itself has 5.79%


205 posted on 11/10/2006 8:39:33 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
Now CHANGE the EULA so I can install it on my PC...

No. Macintosh OS X is written specifically to be used on an Apple computer. You want to use it? Buy an Apple. Models that will run OSX.4.8, the latest version of Tiger, are available used from prices as low as $100 or less on eBay.

206 posted on 11/10/2006 8:40:36 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

Maybe MS should do the same and not allow you to install it on Macs, same for MS Office.. .


207 posted on 11/10/2006 8:49:26 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
Echo, Do you really believe that LINUX is only .39% of the computers present on the World Wide Web? As you've been told before, that is only a representation of the percentage of computer users who visit a specified set of websites... most of which are PC centric. It does not represent anything more than that. If I were to select a similar sized group of websites that were Mac Centric, that percentage would be considerably different.

It is interesting to note that the quoted site reports the latest percentage for Mac OS X is up to 5.21% from the 4.72% it was in September, or the 4.53% in August, or 3.81% in October of 2005... That's quite an increase: 10.4% in just one month.

208 posted on 11/10/2006 8:59:27 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker
It is interesting to note that the quoted site reports the latest percentage for Mac OS X is up to 5.21% from the 4.72% it was in September

the sample they use is quite large, and its pretty accurate.

209 posted on 11/10/2006 9:00:54 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon

Well its says "mac os" and "mac intel"(which we know is OS X).. does "mac os" also cover pre-OS X? I'm not sure what they had prior to that.


210 posted on 11/10/2006 9:03:21 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Swordmaker
Mac OS 9 came out in 1999, and was hailed by Apple as the "best Internet operating system ever". It was the first Mac OS version that could be updated over the Internet. It included useful security features such as file encryption and the "Keychain" mechanism for storing passwords. It could also use the AppleTalk protocol over TCP/IP.

An important part of Mac OS 9 was a mature installation of the Carbon API's, which at the time represented about 70 percent of the legacy Mac OS API's, and provided compatibility with Mac OS 8.1 and later.

The last release of this "old" Mac OS (later referred to as "Classic") was 9.2.2, released in late 2001. Source

I assume some people could still be using that, since some people are still using win98 and winme..

211 posted on 11/10/2006 9:10:40 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
the sample they use is quite large, and its pretty accurate.

No, it isn't. You just want it to be accurate.

The sites being polled are self selected websites that choose to use a specific hit counter.

I think that the ratios of sales of software as reported by the Software and Information Industry Association (18% Mac) and the Sofware Publishers Associations (16% Mac), scientific surveys done by Popular Science (~18,000,000 US Mac Users in mid 2005) and Consumers Reports (~16,000,000 Mac users in the US - 2004), and of Apple's own figures of 19,000,000 OS X users quoted at the January 2006 MacWorld in San Francisco which was before they sold another 5 million Macs in 2006, might be a tad more accurate... using those figures, the percentage is probably somewhat greater than 10% are Macs.

212 posted on 11/10/2006 9:22:37 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

Anyone can use the software, and they even have free trials.


213 posted on 11/10/2006 9:27:28 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Swordmaker
scientific surveys done by Popular Science (~18,000,000 US Mac Users in mid 2005) and Consumers Reports (~16,000,000 Mac users in the US - 2004)

thats just the US, what about the rest of the world?

214 posted on 11/10/2006 9:28:55 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
Anyone can use the software, and they even have free trials.

That doesn't make it accurate... it only enforces the problem of self-selection.

215 posted on 11/10/2006 9:29:40 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Echo Talon
thats just the US, what about the rest of the world?

Apple reported 1.61 million computers sold in Quarter 3 of 2006... and Gartner only counted 975 thousand of those as being sold in the US...

216 posted on 11/10/2006 9:33:32 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

It would be interesting to see FR use the software for a month
and post the results.


217 posted on 11/10/2006 9:33:46 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon; Swordmaker
1. I went to a cubicle last month to re-image a computer for a new user XP and the previous resident had a thread posted by Swordmaker on the wall. Which included Echo Talon.

2.I thought that all twits were English?
218 posted on 11/10/2006 9:35:06 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I don't hear voice's that other people hear.)
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To: Swordmaker

How many people in Mexico, South America, Thailand, China Etc.
can afford to buy a Mac over a PC? Especially with the ease of Pirated Windows OS.


219 posted on 11/10/2006 9:35:54 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: ThomasThomas

What was the thread? LOL


220 posted on 11/10/2006 9:37:15 PM PST by Echo Talon
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