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MAFKKA on 30 March 2009
JamesCizuz said:
MAFKKA said:
JamesCizuz said:
MAFKKA said:
Well we're not talking about total marketshare now are we..

Just because you can kick my ass in 9 games out of 10, i still won that 1 game. And thats what Apple did. They made iMac and the Apple lable a household name outside the industry. And the marketing strategy, including the MAC vs PC videos, made Apple come out on top. I.E..MS lost.

 

No they didn't. Do you understand anything?

 

At first, microsoft(AKA bill gates and a few others) were working on windows, secretly, in apple. Steve jobs was naive at the time, he scolded and said it'd never take off. Apple was big then. Microsoft exploded on the scene, and apple over the years went into almost bankrupsty, and it was MICROSOFT which gave apple 200 million dollars to come back. They don't see them as a competition, because they are not.

 

 Like that has anything to do with what i just said. But okay, whatever make syou sleep at night.

 

It has everything to do. You stated microsoft lost, and used assinine examples, you know mac market share went DOWN after the MAC vs PC ads? Why? People don't respond well to versus ads, and it started a new movement to PC fanboys to spread the news, so the ads were nulified with people.

 

Oh i'll sleep tight.

So... a quick recap. "MAFKKA - Well we're not talking about total marketshare now are we.. " .. and... "They made iMac and the Apple lable a household name outside the industry.[...] I.E.. MS lost"

Apples marketing strategy worked, period. And you can remove the MAC vs PC adds if that makes you feel better. Still, MS lost the battle of inovation and keeping it fresh for a younger market segment. And i repeat, they made Apple a household name outside the industry. So once again. Apple lost this battle.

 



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TheTruthProphet on 30 March 2009

great ad!

why didn't microsoft do this sooner instead of those damn dumb seinfeld adverts??

macs are WAY OVERPRICED anyway.



theRepublic on 30 March 2009

Pretty good commercial. Much better than the childish Mac vs PC commercials.



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xlost7 on 30 March 2009

I liked when she walked out she said "I guess I'm not cool enough to be a mac person" hahaha! I mean seriously I wanted a MacBook too! But that price tag Apple is asking for is not funny.

But I will purchase their Apple iPod Touch!



point x on 30 March 2009

good commercial...



 

 

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Thechalkblock on 30 March 2009

Take that Mac! lol



Strategyking92 on 30 March 2009

They have good point about the price.

Anything apple related is 500$ too expensive.



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StarrGazer on 30 March 2009

Way to go M$....keep doing ads like this and Apple with have 15% market share soon!  lol 



MAFKKA on 30 March 2009

It costs money to be cool. Anyone can look cheap.



famousringo on 30 March 2009
greenmedic88 said:
Apple has their niche market and it is a highly profitable and visible one. They're happy. Targeting the budget market has not been a significant part of their business plan since OSX debuted.

If anything MS should be convincing people not to buy even cheaper Linux enabled netbooks instead as they seem to be under the impression that every PC sold = a license of Windows sold.

Or maybe the Linux crowd is just too geeky and too small for anyone to take their commercial jabs at. But, the day that Linux can be used invisibly by mass market general consumers is the day that MS will really have their work cut out for them and the marketing feat will have to be something like "it's much cooler to buy better specced PCs to run our operating system that has all this great functionality!"

 

Linux hasn't been showing much growth:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9

It's Mac OS which has been eroding the Windows stranglehold in consumer PCs. Linux is a bigger threat in the server space than it is in the consumer space.



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