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Justing Long (Apple’s Mac Guy) Shows His Jailbroken iPhone on TV - Video

Best known for his role as the Mac guy in Apple’s TV commercials, actor Justin Long was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! where he showed a funny SMS conversation on his jailbroken iPhone. Jimmy Kimmel, an American television host and comedian, is the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show that airs on...

18 August 2010
04:18 GMT

Apple Pulls The Plug On 'Get a Mac' Ad Campaign

Apple has removed all references to the Get a Mac ads from its web site. Originally launched in 2006, the campaign delighted Apple fans with dozens of humorous spots featuring actors John Hodgman, as PC, and Justin Long, as Mac. Get a Mac has now been replaced by the “Why you’ll love a Mac” campaign...

24 May 2010
03:18 GMT

AdWeek Sets Up Page Featuring All Get a Mac Ads

For those who love Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign, the people working at AdWeek’s AdFreak blog have set up a place where all 66 “Get a Mac” ads can be watched with just as many clicks. The ads are organized by year in four columns, while each and every video comes with a small summar...

20 January 2010
02:31 GMT

New Get a Mac Ads Target Windows 7 Upgrade Mess

The newest TV commercials from Apple have just started airing, with all three spots targeting Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch. Apple is now creating scenarios where people decide it’s easier and more logical to switch to a Mac, since Microsoft has customers moving files manually when performing the “up...

23 October 2009
02:47 GMT

Apple Posts New Trainer Ad Starring Robert Loggia

In the past two weeks, Apple has posted three new Get a Mac commercials on its website, two of which have been confirmed as airing for various TV channels as well. The latest ad, “Trainer,” stars renowned actor Robert Loggia. In the new ad, Loggia is PC’s trainer. PC is trying to get in shape in or...

31 August 2009
03:25 GMT

Apple Airs Three New Get a Mac Ads

Apple has started airing three new commercials in its ongoing successful Get a Mac campaign. The three ads can be immediately viewed over at Apple's website, under the Mac section, along with older Get a Mac ads going way back to 2006. The latest three spots, PC Choice Chat, Elimination, and Customer Care, feat...

14 May 2009
06:05 GMT

Apple's 'Legal Copy' Ad Actually Shows Microsoft Disclaimer

As reported earlier today, Apple has posted as many as four new Get a Mac ads, featuring the same two characters we've grown to love with the release of every new commercial. One of the ads in particular takes on Microsoft's disclaimers. By viewing it in HD, you can actually read the legal text, allowing yo...

21 April 2009
05:53 GMT

New Get a Mac Ads Stick to Their Roots

Apple has started airing new “Get a Mac” ads featuring the same protagonists, as well as the same topics – PC's ongoing struggles with viruses and Windows' lack of user friendliness. In spite of Microsoft's constantly changing ad campaigns, Apple sticks to its ever-more-sarcastic ads,...

21 April 2009
04:21 GMT

Apple Adds Holiday Feel to Its Website, Posts New Get a Mac Ads

With Christmas approaching, Apple has added a new look to its website. Featuring animated versions of our beloved Mac and PC characters from Apple's Get a Mac campaign, the company no longer presses the audience to consider buying a Mac, this time around. Instead, the Mac maker just wishes everyone Happy Holiday...

16 December 2008
05:40 GMT

Mac Takes a $10 Million Bite of Vista's Problems

As if Microsoft and Vista didn't get battered enough in Apple's latest Get a Mac ads (Bean Counter and The V-Word), the Cupertino-based continues its mocking parade with a new commercial, Bake Sale.Reminiscent of Apple's recent Bean Counter ad, featuring PC throwing huge amounts of cash into advertisin...

22 October 2008
10:13 GMT

Apple Totally Owns Microsoft in New Get a Mac Ads

Apple has started airing two new Get a Mac ads, hitting back at Microsoft soon after the Silicon Valley Windows maker kicked off its own advertising campaign, “Windows, Not Walls.” As always, Apple's concise and straightforward adds make Microsoft's attempts at improving its image futile.First o...

20 October 2008
05:24 GMT

Why Small Businesses Are Going Crazy for the Mac

Jason R. Rich, author of “Mac Migration: The Small Business Guide to Switching to the Mac,” has found that ever more small businesses are making the move to Mac, thanks, in part, to Apple's aggressive advertising campaign - but mostly because Macs really do all that they're advertised to do.&nbs...

24 September 2008
07:50 GMT

Bill Gates Shakes It for Jerry Seinfeld in 1st 'Get a Mac' Counter-Ad

It kicked off and, boy, does it suck! What do you mean “what”? Microsoft's “Windows, Not Walls” $300 Million ad campaign aimed at putting a sock into Apple's mouth. The ad is only an “icebreaker,” according to Microsoft SVP Bill Veghte, suggesting that future ones will be...

5 September 2008
09:16 GMT

Seinfeld Hired to Counter-Attack Apple's 'Get-a-Mac' Ads

It looks like Microsoft is dead serious about its counter-offensive towards Apple. The software giant has allegedly hired famous comedian Jerry Seinfeld to be the image of its ad campaign dubbed (hear this) "Windows, Not Walls".Not that Microsoft's move isn't logical, or worthy of our appreciation (not to m...

21 August 2008
10:33 GMT

Between XP SP2 and Vista SP1, Apple Brought a World of Pain on Microsoft

Between the release of Windows XP SP2, at the end of 2004, and that of Windows Vista SP1 on March 18, 2008, Apple has brought a world of pain on Microsoft. At least this is the perspective coming from CoreBrand. The Redmond company ranked at number 59 in the annual CoreBrand Brand Power 100. The Microsoft brand has b...

20 March 2008
10:48 GMT

Apple's Give Up on Vista Web Ad

With the recent 'Get a Mac' ads so clearly making fun of the vista situation, one would have thought that Apple has taken things as far as they could. That, however, does not seem to be the case and the latest ad has taken them even further.Apple's latest ad, dubbed 'Give Up On Vista,' while...

21 November 2007
09:01 GMT


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