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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Funny that you bring up the commercials. Those were actually kind of a risky move on Apple's part as a similar tactic many years ago, in the early days of the Mac vs. PC war, really backfired on Apple. The year after the now famous "1984" commercial (directed by Ridley Scott, featuring Anya Major as the heroine), Apple put out a commercial during the next Superbowl showing IBM users as lemmings, which promptly pissed off the business world.

Doh!

I remember those commercials and hearing about the fallout. I think the difference between then and now is this: the "lines are drawn". Those businesses that deal in graphics and graphic art gravitate towards Mac. Those who don't gravitate towards PC. Office for Mac helped bring Mac's into the business world, although it doesn't seem that Mac will ever replace PC. But who really knows what the future holds.

*I* didn't take the new commercials to be targeted at businesses (even though some used business as a backdrop). I took them to be targeted at the person who still has a hard time with a PC (getting viruses, blue screen of death, etc...). We're a pretty tech savvy group and we associate with a lot of tech savvy people. But there are a lot of people who can barely figure out how to turn their computer on, or get online.