{"id":725,"date":"2008-09-05T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T10:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=725"},"modified":"2008-09-05T00:44:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T04:44:05","slug":"so-this-is-microsofts-mac-vs-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"So THIS is Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Mac Vs. PC?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Microsoft finally came out with their response to Apple&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/getamac\/ads\/\">Get a Mac<\/a>&#8221; line of television spots.  It was a much vaunted event, with Jerry Seinfeld being featured alongside Bill Gates.  The cost of the campaign: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=9760\">$300 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I watched the ad.  I have to say: <em>I don&#8217;t get it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uz6amk3P-hY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uz6amk3P-hY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;. what message is this supposed to convey exactly?  I mean I have to say, watching this commerical doesn&#8217;t make me think: &#8220;LOOLOLOLOLOLO!  THAT&#8217;S SO TRUE!! I&#8217;M GOING TO GO BUY 89489289723575487198 BOXES OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS NOW!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does it to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Microsoft finally came out with their response to Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Get a Mac&#8221; line of television spots. It was a much vaunted event, with Jerry Seinfeld being featured alongside Bill Gates. The cost of the campaign: $300 million. I watched the ad. I have to say: I don&#8217;t get it. So&#8230;. what message is this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}