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Hodgeman, Apple to run final Get a Mac ad to kick off the Stevenote?
According to rumors surrounding WWDC, Apple will air a final Get a Mac commercial with John Hodgeman as the sole actor. The plot? As 9to5 Mac puts it, “PC pretends to be a bartender and gets a guy drunk in order to get his hands on his new Apple prototype!!” If this is true, it’d certainly get a nice laugh out of everyone there. Perhaps, they’ll even poke fun at Gizmodo, too, for purchasing that lost phone. The only disappointing part about this ad will be the fact that it most likely is a finale ad according to the rumors around the cancellation of the Get a Mac ads.
New online Get a Mac ad features Apple’s high customer service rating
Apple, Inc. is a content producing machine, lately, with plenty of new ads for the iPhone, and now a new online ad for their Get a Mac campaign. This ad, which can currently be seen on the New York Times website as well as other major websites, is called “Mac Customer Satisfaction” and features the usual two suspects, Justin Long and John Hodgeman. This time around, PC tries to correct a “mistake” that seems to be made when it comes to Mac’s customer satisfaction ratings. However, it ends with a nice surprise.
Check out the ad after the break.
“I’m a PC and I was made on a Mac”
The Ballmer brigade up there in Redmond really are shameless. The irony is almost as hilarious as it is ridiculous.
For those who don’t know, Microsoft recently ended their short lived Jerry Seinfeld campaign, and started a new campaign featuring a John Hodgeman look-alike and various other people ranging from celebrities like Eva Longoria and Deepak Chopra, to ordinary joes, to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates himself.
Microsoft is hoping that their new, more direct response to Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign will help revitalize the Windows brand’s tarnished image.
Strange, because Microsoft doesn’t seem to think their products are all that great for video and image editing themselves, as they’ve admitted to creating their latest ad on a Mac…
Get A Mac: guy who plays a PC is a real life Mac user
Well, well, what do you know? Don’t tell me the guy who plays a PC actually uses a Mac in real life? Say it isn’t so! Yes, it’s true, John Hodgman has been outed. He recently came clean about his devotion to Apple. The New York Daily News caught up with him at the Johnny Walker Blue bottle engraving party and John had this to say, “I play a PC only on television. I’ve used Macs since 1984.” When I was a kid, I talked my dad into getting the very first Mac and I’ve been loyal to the brand ever since.”
I definitely enjoy my Mac, too, but for some reason I never saw John as a Mac guy, perhaps because of the character he plays in the commercials. How silly of me.
Apple has been receiving a lot of attention lately, which isn’t surprising; it is an innovative company that provides excellent products. Read past the break if you’re curious to see what has been causing businesses to focus attention on Apple.
New Get a Mac Ad: Office Stress
Apple released a new Get A Mac ad during American Idol last night. Now online, it’s title is “Office Stress.”
The synopsis: PC gives Mac a gift, saying that now that Office 2008 is available for the Mac, Mac should have the gift. Upon opening it, Mac is confused, and PC reveals that is a stress toy. He says that because Mac will be doing a lot more work now, he will need one. The fun gets started when PC gives examples of when one might be stressed: “Oh, Mac just got the latest version of Office [squeeze] Mac can do all the work stuff you can do [squeeze] I want to transfer all my files to Mac [squeezing hard]” As the iMac still comes on at the end of the commercial, we hear PC say “Give it a squeeze!” in an irritated voice, and a popping noise as the stress toy pops.
Ad video after the break.















