Brandon Moon

According to this story (and others), those awful Mac vs. PC ads are over.

Hooray!

Why am I so excited about this? They were funny commercials, right?
Alright, I admit, they were very clever commercials. I did laugh at many of them. You gotta hand it to them, Apple does have that talent with marketing. The problem that I see, though, is that most of them were extremely misleading.

Extremely misleading.

For example, there are virtually no networking differences between the two. Each has their own idiosyncrasies. Both freeze up from time to time, and both have viruses (it’s true). I can name other things.

Worst of all, and the part that makes me glad they stopped, is that they pretty much degenerated into poking fun at Windows Vista. I agree, Vista was terrible, so I guess this was just a well planned marketing move. Still, I wish Apple had more class. (Interesting to note that now that Windows 7 is out, they quit. Gotta admit, Microsoft did a pretty good job with Windows 7.) While I can’t say much for what Macs actually do, I’m surprised to find that these commercials have convinced people that Windows is terrible. It freezes, it hangs, it’s slow, it’s less powerful and less compatible… the list goes on.

Is any of this really true? Not in my experience. It’s time for Apple to stop spreading the FUD.

And so it is I celebrate that these mis-informative and misleading commercials are over with.

Lets get back to actually talking about your product. Thanks.