Apple mocking at Microsoft?
Published by Sunny on February 3rd, 2007 in News - ViewsHas Apple crossed the limits this time? These pictures from a thread in TBF are worth a thousand words:
Do I need to say more?
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February 3rd, 2007 at 9:25 pm
whatever!
for me…. no wow even for now !!
February 4th, 2007 at 3:04 am
Can you blame them? All the “new”, “amazing”, and “incredible” features of Vista are in a YEAR OLD copy of Mac OS X. Not to mention this week the leaked memos between MS executives that went to the keynote, and admitted on which features would be the best to steal. The email from two MS employees states spotlight and widgets.
Geeze Apples about to release a new OS in a few months. No wonder this time they didn’t show the crowd the amazing features. They must have known in advance about the email messages
February 4th, 2007 at 3:05 am
Im going to have to agree with Apple.
February 4th, 2007 at 3:09 am
But where did that Apple banner allegedly come from? I think it’s hilarious, but I’m wondering whether it’s from Apple or if it’s just a parody from a fan. So where did this image come from?
February 4th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Even though I’m a windows user, I have to admit that this is pretty good. I would be interested in seeing this advertisement somewhere in the retail chains. Props to Apple if this is legit.
February 4th, 2007 at 3:27 am
LMFSAO, go on yourself apple.
up u William Gates
February 4th, 2007 at 3:39 am
Why are you telling Safari users to get Firefox? Safari is not part of the problem!
February 4th, 2007 at 4:25 am
Who copying who now Apple? Uncreative bastards.
February 4th, 2007 at 4:31 am
How has Apple crossed the line if they did not create this image?
February 4th, 2007 at 4:58 am
It’s a FAKE, people. Not Apple’s font, phrasing, or marketing materials.
FAKE FAKE FAKE.
February 4th, 2007 at 5:07 am
awesome.
February 4th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Apple didnt make that image…
February 5th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Well, I won’t consider this as a mockup, but its surely a smart ad campaign by Apple
February 6th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Hmmm… I wasn’t aware that Microsoft had copyrighted the ability to “Wow.” Whether or not it’s Apple’s marketing department that made this little chestnut, It does what advertizing is supposed to do, they aren’t slamming Microsoft Vista (like a majority of users are learning how to do once they upgrade from XP,) they’re just pointing out that “hey, something looks like 2002 here.” Microsoft should take this as a compliment, they’re admitting that Vista has “Wow,” whatever that means… World of Warcraft? Do I smell frivolous lawsuit material here? (note, that was sarcasm.)
Or maybe “Wow” is just the interjection of choice when you look at Vista’s efficiency workscreen and notice for the first time that 1 gig of RAM is “Ok to run Notepad, maybe”
I’d make this a longer post, but I’m sure anyone using Vista has to do a DRM check to use that oh-so dangerous “Page down” key on the keyboard so I’ll save them the trouble. (more sarcasm.)
(Misses his Amiga)
February 7th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
[…] people started to respond in a bad way to the WOW ads by Microsoft ? We’ve seen the Apple version of the WOW and now the Linux version. Is this going to bring a negative image to Linux? Lets hope it […]
February 7th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
[…] hot news for bloggers. TechnoBeta’s homepage is filled with Vista news ranging from the crazy Apple WOW ad to the Linux graffiti in a Canadian sub-way. But this is surely […]
February 18th, 2007 at 12:16 am
With everything going around about Vista’s Digital Rights Management, and it’s ability to cripple or hinder hardware based on nothing more than if it thinks you could copy a movie or CD, and all the other horror stories I’ve heard about it (like needing three times the power of a XP system just to run “almost as fast,”) I really think the billboard has a typo in it, it was supposed to read ‘The “Oww” starts here.’
February 18th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Thats a nice catchy phrase! lol
February 21st, 2007 at 12:34 pm
That’s truly awesome. I have to admit, the wow did start 5 years ago… Microsoft are a bit late.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Linux barely beats windows and apple just sucks for most everyone.For gaming windows rules apple is trailing in every aspect unless you use an Ipod:(
February 28th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Mike Mettura’s right, Apple’s behind… Just in the DRM and “locking you out of your own system because it thinks you might be able to do something illegal” departments, Apple is years behind.
March 24th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
One thing in common between the ‘Apples’ and ‘Or…. sorry M$! The $$$$$$’s!
March 29th, 2007 at 11:27 am
[…] sure are lots of advertisements, photos and cartoons ridiculing Vista. I got this one via […]
April 1st, 2007 at 9:37 am
Well for Apple to support all that ‘eye candy’ it has always been the most expensive thing on the block. Every time I have looked at Mac price has ALWAYS trumped eye candy. You can know Microsoft all you want but they are the most reasonably solution on the block and have enable those that have not won the lottery to access an important compnent of our moder life.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Well, compare a good PC to a good Mac, you’ll find that lately, the prices aren’t all that different, mostly because the hardware really isn’t all that different. Mac suffers from a lack of a low-end model, unless you count the older PowerPC models. So a price of around $500 to 600 can be expected for a Mac Mini, and you don’t have to look far to find a $1000 to 1500 Windows machine to compare to the Mac’s high end. The sad part is that now that PC hardware is going to have to be “Vista Compliant,” i.e. “able to check everything you do, to make sure you’re not copying a movie or CD illegally,” that’s driving prices up, so hold on to your lottery ticket, Zed :).
Doesn’t it seem odd that the hardware now has to cater to the OS, instead of the other way around? Remember the OS is not a part of the hardware itself, it’s from a different company entirely. Worse still, supposedly this is to appease the movie and music industries. I’m paying extra to hire a policeman to shut down equipment I payed for, if it thinks I’m doing something wrong. That’s not “Wow.”
But I run Linux, so that’s not going to affect me, right? Wrong. Thanks to Microsoft, in the future, when I buy hardware for my Linux machines, I’m going to have to pay extra for it, since it’s cheaper for the manufacturer to produce only one line of “Vista compliant” hardware, even though the extra functions are going to be useless to me. I have no lottery winnings myself, and now I’ll have to shell out more to run a free operating system. How wonderful.
And I admit it’s also nice to know that I don’t have to worry so much about animated cursors or some other seemingly innocuous piece of software latching onto my computer like lampreys, sucking drive space, CPU cycles, RAM space, virtual memory, screen space (love a good malware toolbar, don’t we?) work hours, and how about those friends or business contacts you might lose over sending or receiving a nasty drive killing virus?
I suppose my point in all this could be “expenses can take many forms,” but no, I think I’ll just say that my point is “I really like to complain about things :)”
April 5th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
To the above comment…
Quote “able to check everything you do, to make sure you’re not copying a movie or CD illegally”
This is not true, Vista does not disable anything you could do in XP - infact it supports movies that ‘Hollywood’ are forcing new types of DRM onto which means Vista will allow you to play this content, without support for it the DRMed content wouldn’t work.
Quote “Thanks to Microsoft, in the future, when I buy hardware for my Linux machines, I’m going to have to pay extra for it, since it’s cheaper for the manufacturer to produce only one line of “Vista compliant” hardware, even though the extra functions are going to be useless to me.”
Wrong again, Hardware manufacturers simply add ‘Vista compliant’ to most products they don’t add features they are just guananteeing this it is fully supported in Vista. I have seen a few motherboards I get in stock now that simply have a ‘Vista Compliant’ sticker on it yet it is many years old. Also what are these extra features you ‘don’t need’?
Quote “Doesn’t it seem odd that the hardware now has to cater to the OS, instead of the other way around? Remember the OS is not a part of the hardware itself, it’s from a different company entirely.”
Wrong again Vista is simply allowing you to utilise newer hardware, it isn’t forcing you to upgrade. If you still want a pentium II then you should still run XP. It is like saying I want a monster truck engine under the hood of a mini (use your imagination and it does make sense).
This shows that uninformed people are influencing others to believe what they believe.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:02 am
who will read a comment that is that long..
April 6th, 2007 at 1:13 am
well i did read it..
as for the piracy thing..even in windows xp if you rip off videos from original vcd’s/dvd’s you won’t be able to delete them unless and until you are technically sound.
I thought hardwares were getting cheaper everyday..
On the last point though matt i agree with you completely..and technically speaking it would be difficult for you to run windows xp on pentium 3 let alone pentium 2..
April 6th, 2007 at 1:15 am
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
http://www.csamuel.org/2006/12/24/microsoft-vista-content-protection-inflating-the-price-of-a-computer-near-you/
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=7675
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/12/vistas-content-protection-badness.html
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Yes… I must be uninformed. I must be just rambling to make a point. I guess I’d taken Leo LaPorte’s comment about Vista being the most paranoid OS in history too seriously, and I should look to microsoft.com for the answers. right?
Not out to put all my eggs in one basket, but the first link I’d posted says it all, and says it best. I highly recommend anyone reading it since it’s a good base to start forming an opinion, instead of looking at Vista and saying “oooh, pretty.” Microsoft, if anything has hindered computer development for it’s own gains. It’s done this for years, buying out companies it can’t muscle out, companies that just may have a better plan. This is the safest Windows ever, but an animated cursor can take it down. Literally the mouse killing the elephant.
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Quote: “Vista does not disable anything you could do in XP - infact it supports movies that ‘Hollywood’ are forcing new types of DRM onto which means Vista will allow you to play this content, without support for it the DRMed content wouldn’t work.”
So what you’re saying, Matt, is that neither Linux or Mac will be able to play any of this content.. A lot of time wasted on OSX.5 Leopard in that case.
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Quote: “Wrong again, Hardware manufacturers simply add ‘Vista compliant’ to most products they don’t add features they are just guananteeing this it is fully supported in Vista. I have seen a few motherboards I get in stock now that simply have a ‘Vista Compliant’ sticker on it yet it is many years old. Also what are these extra features you ‘don’t need’?”
So then extra circuitry required to encrypt data from the datasource (the DVD drive, the CD drive, etc) and it’s parallel decryptor circuitry that will soon enough get soldered into video cards and sound cards aren’t considered ‘extra features? And they won’t cost anything for anyone to put in? And it won’t use the CPU, or RAM or anything and won’t slow down the system at all? And aside from that, it won’t raise prices for everyone? Great. I stand corrected. Keep in mind, by the way, how broad the term “Vista Compliant” has come to mean. Install Vista Home Basic, and you’ll see what I mean.
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Quote: “Wrong again Vista is simply allowing you to utilise newer hardware, it isn’t forcing you to upgrade. If you still want a pentium II then you should still run XP. It is like saying I want a monster truck engine under the hood of a mini (use your imagination and it does make sense).”
Y’know what? I agree with you there. XP is supported till 2014, almost like MS knew Vista would be a tough pill to swallow. Maybe it’s why they put so much lipstick on a pig But then again, wouldn’t it be better just to recommend another OS that isn’t going to give you this sort of trouble?
George Carlin once said something about people (he said Americans, but I’ll be a bit more libertose…) being willing to give away freedoms for the illusion of security. Vista’s the most secure Windows OS ever, isn’t it?
Just words from the uninformed.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Oh, and by the way, sorry that was so long, it’s not easy to prove myself informed, make a point by point rebuttal, etc. etc. etc. All in the same post. Luckily I’m not required reading
April 6th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Quote:”wouldn’t it be better just to recommend another OS that isn’t going to give you this sort of trouble?”
well the windows monopoly continues…90/100 indians have never seen any operating system other than windows..it is gr8 work by Windows administration that it is surviving[and remaining at the top by miles] with so much opposition..
April 6th, 2007 at 2:47 am
Agreed, Sameer… My personal opinion here, not necessarily fact, is that Windows is successful for it’s marketing and sales department, not it’s product. Windows isn’t a better OS, just a more popular one. There are some genuinely creative and talented people working there at MS, I wouldn’t argue that for a second. But no product gets to have 90% saturation without a marketing department convincing people that they’re the only one out there, and a sales department to convince developers of the same thing.
I used to own an Amiga computer (remember that?) It was an incredible system for it’s time, way ahead of anything out there (ok, maybe Atari’s Falcon was that good too
) Better system would sell more and lead the industry, right?
Wrong. Commodore (owners of the Amiga) felt that way, “We have a better machine, who needs to advertise?” And then they died a slow, painful death. The computer, the company, all but the fanbase. So I’m stuck with a machine from 1988 that I still like, I still use, and I still lament. I use Ubuntu Linux now, and I have a Mac I use from time to time, too. And I like to think I use a better OS, not a ‘more popular’ one.
April 6th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Well if they would be selling crap material then why would they survive…ads can give a boost but the whole success of a product does not depend on an ad..
It’s good if you use linux because open source software is what i support..
but paying up for mac is surely not what i think logical..
and btw i have not experienced mac bcoz am quite satisfied with xp for my needs.
Finally the best coders in the world should work for windows[that’s what i think]because it offers the biggest pay packet and also is a nice status symbol..if i become a software engineer there wud be only 2 companies i would be willing to work with..my own and windows..
April 6th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Ahh, but I’m not saying they sell crap material, not at all, just not the best
I’m saying an Operating system shouldn’t take 15 GB of hard drive space and 1 GB of RAM. I can guarantee that Windows isn’t half as fast as it couldbe. And unfortunately, success depends greatly on ads. Ads are what attract users and developers, and an ‘ok’ product with a marketing team will outsell a great product with none every time. And like you’d said, the best coders in the world should work with Windows, essentially because it’s so popular, which is why Windows is able to maintain it’s lead. We answered your own question right there.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Exactly what I think! An Operating System should serve its purpose - that is providing a platform for applications.
As far as advertising goes, yes, its vital. But from what I see, Linux hardly wants to spread by means other than the internet, which is where they lose out! Microsoft held a Vista launch party across the globe, with many superstars and celebs endorsing the event! Now thats undoubtedly a good way to spread an OS, no matter how bad it is.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Sunny, if you’re interested, look up “Puppy Linux.” you can download a 50 to 60MB ISO file, burn it to a CD, boot that CD, and it loads the entire OS and it’s apps into RAM, all without touching your hard drive’s files. What’s beautiful about that is when you click on the word processor’s icon to load it, it’s up and ready almost immediately. The spreadsheet? The same, two or three seconds, and it’s ready to go. This is all in less than 100MB. I mentioned on another story on this site that there’s an OS that fits on a single floppy disk. It’s rudimentary, and no apps for it that I know of, but a 32 bit multitasking OS in full color, on a 1.44MB floppy… As for the Linux advertising thing, it’s really a double-edged sword. Ubuntu, for instance, is a free OS. It’s also a very good OS in my opinion. But without charging for it, there’s not much in terms of advertising dollars to speak of
Since no one advertises Linux (compared to Mac or Windows, that is,) it doesn’t get a serious look, people seem to think that if a product has no TV spots, then it’s not worthwhile. So people would rather spend $99 and up for an OS like Windows rather than download a free OS that works on a ten year old computer just as well as it does a ten day old one (albeit slower.)
Sad reality is, that ads work. People can deny it all they want and say it’s the product that matters… If my e-mail’s spam folder is any indication though, someone disagrees
April 6th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Joey - I’ve used Linux, as a matter of fact, I’m a big fan of Ubuntu (and Konqueror - although people think differently about KDE
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I haven’t used Puppy Linux yet, I’ll have to give that a try. But I do prefer installing the OS onto the HDD, like I’ve always done with Ubuntu and OpenSuSe.
Btw, were you talking about Damn Small Linux ? Hehe..
Coming back to spreading Linux, one thing thats mistaken by the common people is that they have been made to think that Linux is only for the geek and the 1337. But I have seen that change in the past few months. For instance, the government of Tamil Nadu (or was it Kerala?), a state in India, has opted to use Linux as the primary OS in schools. Now thats an excellent way to spread Linux - by teaching the future residents on how to use it.
I’ve tried supporting Linux as best as I can, I’ve installed it on friends’ computers, given away those free CDs of Ubuntu/Kubuntu
Maybe thats the only way you can spread Linux!
April 7th, 2007 at 1:36 am
quote”Coming back to spreading Linux, one thing thats mistaken by the common people is that they have been made to think that Linux is only for the geek and the 1337.”
exactly..
April 13th, 2007 at 7:45 am
I’ve always liked the idea of using the PS2-PS3, Wii, Xbox, etc. for this sort of thing. If they can get a LiveCD to work with each of these, then you can take a totally unused market share, OS-wise. Offer free Puppy Linux CDs, or some other flavor Linux at stores where they sell the games, only compatible with the game system they’re made for to ensure 100% compatibility, and the saved files would dump out to the system’s memory card. For the Wii this would be easy to manage, the memory card is a Compact Flash, the PS3 and Xbox 360 might need a little hardware to transfer files to a PC for printing. But of course, if your system is networked, this changes everything, doesn’t it?
April 15th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Interesting comments..
June 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 am
First of all, there is a big difference between copying and parody!
Second of all…as usual Apple’s ad looks better
(And I am a hardcore MS user!)