WTF MSFT? This is so bad.
Holy crap this is bad. Team Newman’s favorite line: “Microsoft, huh? So it’s easy to use?”
Hat Tip: TechCrunch, which observed the following minor detail:
Whoever made the video thought they could fool everyone by covering up the Apple logo and the rest of the laptop with stickers. Or maybe they knew that would be the only way anybody would bother to watch the video.
My questions:
- Are they serious?
- Were they trying to be funny?
- Did the PR/Ad firm that helped produce this “viral” marketing video get fired yet?
- Is hubby correct when he says that I am actually doing what they want folks to do, which is talk about their Songsmith product on our blogs?
- Did they REALLY think no one would notice that’s a 17 inch MacBook she’s using?
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Okay this is just deeply disturbing to say the least. Lets go through your questions.
1) I pray not because I feel like I’m watching “The Wiggles” using window while smoking some good stuff.
2) Nobody in their right mind could do this and take it serious. Seriously?
3) I hope they are on fire.
4) I think he got you on that one.
5) I see that all the time on TV. People using macbook pro’s because they look sleek yet its running windows or some other fake operating system. Its all about sex appeal. And well, dell , you don’t have it.
Thanks for the post.
This “ad” hurts my feelings.
I bet they edited this on a mac.
There is no way that they can be serious. I think they are going for so-bad-that-its-good. But seriously, it is pretty bad.
I am horrified! Even not being a PR professional, it strikes me as dishonest…
Thanks for the great comments folks!
@sloan I think you are right on #4 and #5 is so true! I love it when you see the “for PC only” at the bottom of the screen yet they are showing the stuff on a Mac in the commercial
@doug Hey! Are you still on your US tour?! And this ad hurts my feelings, too.
@Helena LOL good call.
@drew I think you are right, but it still sucks.
@Katrina It strikes me as a poor use of marketing dollars.
Ah, I love Wikipedia: “…became a viral video due to being unintentionally bad,” with no less than *six* sources.
Wow. This is just… wow.
I still have trouble believing that it’s real, it’s so bad.
Love the Apple laptop, though.
Oh my. That literally made my body HURT, it was so awful.
No wait…maybe it’s the bad cold, but still. That was horrendous.
It will run great on one of these
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
This has to be a joke….At least it’s so bad that it kept me entertained throughout the whole way. The YouTube comments on the video are pretty harsh.