Is CP & B even involved in this?
Is “lame” their “perpetual” strategy?
Does Bill Gates wants Microsoft to look bad because he is done with it?
How is it even possible to feature Jerry Seinfeld in a four minute ad without anything being funny?
What’s going on here?
Could somebody please fix the pieces of my shattered world?
*crawling underneath desk*
A wise man once said:
“I would not have thought it possible for Microsoft to produce anything worse than their software… but, somehow, they did. Frankly, I am stunned.”
Okay, I found that in the comments section of Wallstreetfighter.com but it sums it up pretty good.
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Duuuuuude… i love this! Bill Gates, leading from the front. Amusing. Wait to see where it leads, hopefully this is not the ‘idea’ alone.
The campaign is awsome! Starting off with a quirky Shoe Circus spot and having the balls to hang with the campaign even though there’s so much false critisism. IMHO it makes Bill and Microsoft really sympathetic, because they make fun of themselves, what Steve GOD Jobs would never be able to do.
Another user disected the 2nd commercial pretty good. So he deserves all the credit for this here:
23. Eelill - September 13, 2008 7:18 AM
I think that the family, in contrast of Bill and Jerry actually represents Macs. Check out some of these points:
1. When they are eating, the man who owns the house gives em something “new” to try, like Mac always does (iPod every 2 months anyone?) but then Bill is like “didnt we have this before?” and Jerry says “yeah, just covered in cheese”.
2. The part where Jerry is playing table tennis w/ the girl he becomes frustrated with the “noob” so to speak - PC is saying that Mac isn’t as experienced and doesn’t have the skills required to help people really connect. Also, “why is there only one ball” is a small reference to the 1 button mouses everyone used to hate (and the damn 1 button Macbook)
3. When 1 of the sons in the house steals the mustard or w/e from the fridge, the father makes a scene about it, making himself look righteous, just to steal it himself - something Mac seems to do - look righteous and then backstab.
4. The part where Bill shows the awesome video game to the little kid is a reference to the fact that Macs suck at running games, and that’s still dominated by the PC.
5. This part I dont have enough technical knowledge for - but when the family asks Jerry how much things are worth/what they should do with money, perhaps it is a reflection of Mac looking to Windows to price things - keeping prices in line.
6. The little girl that puts the Giraffe into Bill’s bag represents the fact that Mac is willing to use dirty tactics to defeat the PC (this ad’s competition)
7. “Its his car. Its his driveway. Its none of my business” - bad customer support on behalf of Mac (I know this myself seeing as how the people at the store didn’t know what was on their site for the last 2 months and tried charging me $400 for a new iPhone instead of $200 - it was broken)
8. “How long till it gets warm? It never gets warm.” - shows that no matter how long Mac has been working on their systems, they are still failing to do important things (in my case, play games
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