What’s So Bad About The Ad? Get A Mac Ads vs Laptop Hunters Ads, Why It All Evens Out.

The one thing that really bothers me about advertising is that most of the time all of the time they aren’t true. One thing that bothers me even more, is that people go out and criticize the ads, my self included. It’s human nature, that’s for sure, to critique.

Perhaps one of the most common advertisements you could see people criticizing are the Laptop Hunters ads by Microsoft, which aim at people looking to buy a laptop within a certain price range, and the Get a Mac ads by Apple, which are aimed at PC users who are frustrated with their computer.

I myself, have even criticized the Laptop Hunters ads, along with several other YouTubers, including thecreativeone and cockyjeremy. The reason for criticizing the ads is quite simple, we are the opposing team, or side. The PC users criticize our ads, therefore we criticize their ads.

But that’s not the only reason. We, as humans, have the logic to know that ads are there to promote the opposing “faction” and we see it as “cheap”, or as a lie. For instance, the Get A Mac ads by Apple usually summarize PCs by associating them with viruses, sluggish performance, and more for the business people.Whereas Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters ads will display Macs as too expensive.

But it all evens out.

No matter what side you are on, you are going to have to accept the truth and realize that all ads are biased and completely untrue, in a sense.

It just depends on what side you’re on.

JD

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Comments

[Jamie Bunting]

I now agree exactly. I have removed the blog post I posted a few days ago as your comment along with a few others made me see that it is because we are on apples side. Completely true. Well done..

Jamie

[random guy]

Good post, but the thing with the Apple ads- they have some obnoxiously false stereotypes of PCs. Microsoft's ads are fairly true, Macs are just too expensive for the average person. They don't even call them overpriced, they just say that the average person cannot afford a Mac. Apple ads display PCs as some kind of bomb, they are taking false advertising to a whole new level.

[JD Remington]

Jamie,

This blog post wasn't exactly aimed at you, I didn't mean for it to change your mind and have you take your post down, but I suppose it is good that you understand the importance of being on both sides of the argument in writing.

Anyways, keep up your writing!

random guy,

I would agree with you that Macs can be overpriced at times depending on the time of the market that you buy it. If you are one of those unlucky folks that buys a Mac Pro a month before WWDC and they update it to 16-core or something at WWDC of course you are going to think: "Oh well mine was overpriced."

The sole rule about buying products from Apple is you need to know that the thing you are buying will be outdated within six months.

Thanks for the comments,

JD