Apple ads offer lots of finger-pointing, no solutions

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I don't know why I was so surprised to see that Mike Arrington, the head honcho at TechCrunch and buddy of my former boss Jason Nazar, was completely vibing with my exact thoughts on the latest "Get A Mac" ad. If you haven't seen it, it features PC (John Hodgeman) promising Mac (Justin Long) that Windows 7 will be stable as he did with all previous Windows family OSs, inferring that it won't be stable. Here's the ad:




I have pretty big problem with this. It's called Snow Leopard, and it's bricking otherwise functional Macs across the world.
To those who don't know, Snow Leopard is the latest version of Apple's OS X. It is an operating system that was touted as the latest, greatest version yet, but was seen to cause machines to lock up indefinitely as a highly common result, and in some cases destroyed all the data on users' hard drives.
I'm sure this is going to come across as a defense of Microsoft, and it isn't. That company writes buggy software too. But at least I know it's buggy, I know how to use it, and I can easily install it on any machine at the fraction of the price of an overhyped closed Mac system that wastes my money more efficiently than anything else it does.
My point is that they have a lot of chutzpah plastering this ad everywhere at this point in time, just after the release of their most defective software to date. To me, it looks like a shameless and ill-conceived attempt to misdirect the public. Problem is, we're too smart for that.
It wouldn't be so bad if they had released a patch to fix the problems, or offered their loyal users (who helped drive their market cap to record highs just yesterday) a substantial rebate for their trouble. But nope. Just an ad pointing the finger at someone else. Shameless. Don't be dopes, people. Stick with PCs. If nothing else, they're cheaper, and it doesn't take a Genius to fix them.

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