The 'Mac Guy' is history

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The 'Mac Guy' is history

Post by greggh » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:58 pm

Apple Ditches 'Mac Guy' In New Ads
Apple's "I'm a Mac" campaign is almost perfect: It's funny, memorable, and efficiently lays out the advantages of Macs over PCs. Its only defect: Virtually everyone who watches it comes away liking the "PC guy" while wanting to push the "Mac guy" under a bus...

...Why was Long dropped, specifically? Perhaps for striking people as a "smug little twit," in the words of Seth Stevenson, ad critic for Slate. Long, he adds, is "just the sort of unshaven, hoodie-wearing, hands-in-pockets hipster we've always imagined when picturing a Mac enthusiast.... It's like Apple is parodying its own image while also cementing it."
It's good to find out I wasn't the only one who thought that commercial made the image of the Mac user look too hip and smug.
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Post by Wally Balljacker » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:42 am

I never cared for the Mac guy for the reasons mentioned, but what really pisses me off the most about those Mac ads is that they are so inaccurate, and people have no clue. The Mac isn't the only alternative to Windows, and I can't stand it when people use the term "PC" when referring to Windows. Just once I want to see a Linux guy jump in there and say "Hey, I do everything the Mac does... for Free! And you don't have to throw your old computer away!"
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Post by dann » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:41 pm

You have seen the commercials from http://www.truenuff.com/ right? They have a linux guy in there, pretty funny stuff.
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Post by Alpha13 » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:07 pm

I had not seen the Linux guy. That WAS funny.

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Post by snarkout » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:12 pm

I don't get it.
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Post by hellonorman » Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:12 am

Snarkout wrote:I don't get it.
You know what they say, if you look around the poker table and you don't see any suckers... :wink:
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Post by snarkout » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:36 am

The linux guy would have been funnier if they'd pegged linux instead of some feebleminded dickweed who *uses* linux. When BSD showed up - now that was comedy.
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Post by Patrick » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:42 am

Snarkout wrote:The linux guy would have been funnier if they'd pegged linux instead of some feebleminded dickweed who *uses* linux. When BSD showed up - now that was comedy.
Agreed. Technically the BSD guy should of looked just like the Apple guy but not as pretty. :)
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