Hello, I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC. And, dang it, this ad campaign has been successful!
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\nApple’s Mac and PC guy campaign has worked so well that Microsoft is fighting back. Apparently they’ve hired Jerry Seinfeld to lead a series of new, pro-Microsoft ads. The project is being funded with a massive $300 million budget.<\/p>\n
I see potential here for a major goof-up. While I enjoy Jerry Seinfeld, it’s disappointing to see him shill for Microsoft. As a former shill for Microsoft myself, I can feel his pain. Now maybe Jerry can pull it off. Maybe he can bring some humanity to Windows dry, humorless reputation.<\/p>\n
Of course, the problem isn’t Jerry Seinfeld. The problem is Windows. It’s boring. It’s severely uninspired. Windows is clumsy and cartoony and just never seems to capture the miracle and awe that Apple puts into its software. The older term for the Macintosh was insanely great<\/em>. Windows will never been insanely great, with or without Seinfeld and $300 million worth of PR.<\/p>\n How about taking that $300 million and using it as seed money? Create a rogue startup. Make it very independent of Microsoft and its top-down brutality. Have them come up with a new operating system. Start over. Yes, it will cost much, much more than $300 million to complete. But such a move would most definitely break the Windows stranglehold on the PC, and finally give Microsoft an operating system for the 21st Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello, I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC. And, dang it, this ad campaign has been successful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}