New commercial

[stoffe]

My friend made this one.

[Brunellus]

My friend made this one.

Great. "boring, but establishment" versus "hipper than thou" versus "bearded nutcase."

I think we lose.

[monkieie]

well I've not got a full beard (goatee) but some people do class me as being a nutcase

[Brunellus]

Marketing efforts directed at people who are already aware of GNU are wasted.

[monkieie]

Marketing efforts directed at people who are already aware of GNU are wasted.

In my experience the marketing people often live in a world of their own anyway - regardless of country or origin.

[Lord Illidan]

Bad one...

How many people want to see their OS as a hippy big fat bearded guy?? Ok, apologies to RMS?

[RAV TUX]

bad ad for Apple, interesting about how they left Linux out of the picture. They didn't want to give us free advertising.

I see this more directed at GNU Hurd or specifically "GNU General Public License", then Linux Distros.

Now a ad run by Ubuntu comparing in a similar way to Apple may have the success that Pepsi had by comparing themselves to Coca-Cola.

A Ubuntu/Apple taste test

or even a Ubuntu/Windows taste test

or both.

[monkieie]

to be perfectly honest I don't think that I get the message that they are sending out.

It might be interesting to know what slogan they used with the advert, to know which tack they are taking...

[Engnome]

bad ad for Apple, interesting about how they left Linux out of the picture. They didn't want to give us free advertising.

Well this is a comparison Mac vs PC, not Windows vs MAC OSX although they are the same for most people.

If it were a comparison between OS + hardware though the PC bunch would be represented by MANY very different people while Mac + OSX would be the same white/shiny I'm hipper than thou dude many times over and over again.

[Lord Illidan]

The Mac advert stated that basically, macs are cooler than Windows... ok, so we already knew that!

If there was a real life mac/ubuntu taste test, mac would probably win hands down... we still have a lot to go before we can match Mac OS X, although in some areas we are pulling ahead.