Gates confused by Apple ads

 

p2pnet.net News:- "I live in Japan, and we get our own version of Apple's 'defamation' ads, and have considered, in

amny instances, to report the ads as false advertizing," says Nazo.

He's commenting on a p2net story on the anti-Microsoft ads running off- and online, citing a couple of examples,

including:

Mac - I have a lot of aplications like video editing, games, etc..."
PC - I only have solitare"

Nazo isn't alone. Bill Gates doesn't like the ads either. Here's what he had to say in a Newsweek Q&A:

Newsweek: Are you bugged by the Apple commercial where John Hodgman is the PC, and he has to undergo

surgery to get Vista?

Gates: I've never seen it. I don't think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of

themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are.

Newsweek: How about the implication that you need surgery to upgrade?

Gates: Well, certainly we've done a better job letting you upgrade on the hardware than our competitors have done.

You can choose to buy a new machine, or you can choose to do an upgrade. And I don't know why [Apple is] acting like

it’s superior. I don't even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you're really

cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There's not even the slightest shred of truth to

it.

Newsweek: Does the entire tenor of that campaign bother you, that Mac is the cool guy and PC—

Gates: That’s for my customers to decide.

And, "I mean really give me a break!" - adds Nazo.

"A crashed Mac is far more difficult to restore, especially if you use OSX (Which BTW was already a registered OS

name here in Japan from before the Mac even existed). It's just bad practice, in any situation, whether it be consumer

products, politics, or even *PAA tactics."

Source: p2net.net