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    1984 Paradoy Commercial

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Cygnus311, Oct 7, 2006.

  1. Cygnus311

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    Cygnus311, Oct 7, 2006
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    haha, thats funny.
     
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    that's awsome... i like the apple core element at the end, lol
     
    yuio, Oct 7, 2006
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    Wow, they certainly picked the perfect guy to talk on the screen...nice and ugly.

    Somehow I fail to see what iPods have to do with a computer commericial and considering it's microsoft who holds the major market share.

    other than that it was funny.
     
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    Well in MP3 players Apple is Microsoft. That is what the commercial was about. Apple does act a little monoplistic with it, but at least the iPod is good at what it does.
     
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    The original commericial wasn't necessarily about IBM being monopolistic but rather more the fact that computers were not inovative, not accessible, not understandable or appealing to the average person which is what the Mactinosh offered. So for them to say iPod is no different than what Apple was scrutinizing 1984 is a complete misinterpretation. If iPod were some boring, noninnovative, difficult to understand device that people had been using for years, only then would this parody really make sense.
     
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    You know... this maybe a bit off topic... but it seems that no matter how good a product is, that if they hold a large market share, theres a ton of people who say they suck, or are terrible units.
    Like, if I'm in the lab the other day, and I was talking to a collegue, and told himi I was going to buy an ipod, and some guy was like... oh, don't get one, they're crap. And of course, nothing ot back up why they are crap.

    It seems people think that just cause it's an ipod, means that you have to use only music/vidoes from itunes.

    Anyone remember the story about how Peter Jackson had loaded The Lord of the Rings onto his ipod to bring it over to the production studio and almos thad it stolen? heh... thought that was humorous :p

    It's not like the ipod is a bad product, and until creative came out with their player, there was no good alternative. Sure, there were other players, but they were either harder to use, were insanely ugly or big, or they were more expensive.
     
    hollownail, Oct 7, 2006
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