Apple has released a new TV commercial in their “Get a Mac” campaign called, “Goodwill,” featuring actors Justin Long and John Hodgman.
Apple’s new “Goodwill” spot:
See all of Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads here: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Adam W.” for the heads up.]
Embrace and extinguish.
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Awww…. sniff…
Axcuse me,snif sniff, I think I’m having a moment.
Does PC hug Mac a little too eagerly?
“Sorry, just slipped out. System error.”
Perfect.
awww….. nice.
here, have some eggnog… and pass me a slice of that three year old fruitcake!!
Embrace and extinguish!
pull it in to hug harbour?
Have fun with that one Ampar. I foresee a lot of “pulling out” jokes in our collective future
Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer!
Bah! Humbug!
Have fun with that one Ampar. I foresee a lot of “pulling out” jokes in our collective future
I haven’t seen Ampar around these parts for a long, long time….
Also, isn’t this ad a little late, considering Christmas is only 5 days away? I figured Apple would have ran this ad back in November with all the other premiered holiday ads…..
Merry “X”mas
Also, isn’t this ad a little late, considering Christmas is only 5 days away? I figured Apple would have ran this ad back in November with all the other premiered holiday ads…..
And that is exactly why you didn’t see this ad then. There is no way they could have been running this feel good ad this long — people would be sick of it by now. They’ll get a nice five days out of it as everyone is with friends and family. Smart, very smart.
“I haven’t seen Ampar around these parts for a long, long time….”
“Ampar” has retired.
He was last seen stretched out in a lawn chair wearing Bermuda shorts, black socks and sandals and writing a crazy memoirs blog. He’s still a good lurking guy though. He sends his best wishes for a Mactastic holiday season to the deserving and a brown Zune wrapped in discarded, sweaty Ballmer shirts for angry, pathetic trolls everywhere.
MW: ready?
I’m confused. What are the holidays for again?
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
There, that wasn’t so hard…..
MW:job, as in “somebody’s got to do it”
If Ballmer tries to say “Merry Christmass” it would be like this:
Ballmer_concurs
Argggghhhh!!! wrong link.
If Ballmer tries to say “Merry Christmass” it would be like this:
Ballmer_concurs
Tempus, fruitcake? I can’t believe anybody would actually eat that stuff, hence the Law of Conservation:
“Fruitcake cannot be created or destroyed.”
(It simply gets passed around from one year to the next.)
Double arggghhhhhh!!!
Here it is as a non hot link!
If Ballmer tries to say “Merry Christmass” it would be like this:
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=445&mn=14607&pt=msg&mid=1059515
Yes, that’s SO important TowerTone. I guess if you’re something stupider than a retard in a hurry, you would never know what someone is referring to when they say, “Happy Holidays.” That’s such an obscure phrase.
Did anyone notice that Justin Long 2 shirts are not straight (off centered) at the beginning of this Apple ad and then miraculously are nice and straightened out (centered) for the rest of the ad. Looks like a blooper to me…
Then you better slow down there, effword, as it is all calculated Politically Correct-PCBS-hysteria that keeps retailers from using the official greeting.
And yes, it is SO important.
Morphing: Mac becomes more and more like Windows.
Would someone please explain why the hell everyone is in such a celebratory mood over this?
2007: The year Mac loses its unique advantages in a hopeless quest for another point of market share.
Steve is a genius because of this?
Then you better slow down there, effword, as it is all calculated Politically Correct-PCBS-hysteria that keeps retailers from using the official greeting.
The official greeting? As sponsored by what? Jeebus?
Happy Solstice!
And a Happy Festivus to All ! ! !
Cosmo Kramer: Is there a tree?
Frank Costanza: No, instead, there’s a pole. It requires no decoration. I find tinsel distracting.
Frank Costanza: It’s made from aluminum. Very high strength-to-weight ratio.
Mr. Kruger: I find your belief system fascinating.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the rest.
Time to get back to work, (er, I mean fun) I love Aperture.
Don’t you mean “Happy non denomination devoid of any religious meaning politically correct consumer spending retail orgy season”?
Oh for cryin’ out loud, it’s Christmas! Please, stop this “Happy Holidays” nonsense. It reeks of absurdity and sticks out like a sore thumb. You’re offending a MAJORITY of the people when you say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”. Surveys have showed that anywhere from two-thirds to 75% of people prefer “Merry Christmas”. It’s divisiive, not “inclusive”. Why must we irritate and insult the MAJORITY and accommodate the minority? When does the MAJORITY get to have its simple desire fulfilled. That is, that the culture acknowledge that Christmas is the reason for the season. WE…MATTER…TOO!
Oh, but they’ll take your Christmas dollars though, don’t they. “Holiday tree”, indeed. This time of year has been about Christmas for a long, long, long, time. And now, these other religions just want to piggy-back off of Christmas. Leave our holiday alone! Pick your own time of year! But they’re not going to pick their own time of year, because if they do, no one would ever know about their insignificant holiday. Kwanza was concocted by some Afro-centric idiot who also happened to have been a card carrying Marxist. But you’re not going to hear about that on the local politically correct news channel. To hell with Kwanza! And Hannukah is another lame one that needs to find its own space and stop siphoning off of the majority.
I hate both types of PC. The Windows kind, and the absurd intellectual fascism kind.
Hey, “Anti-Christmas”. I don’t know if you’re a pagan, or an atheist, but I do know that your nonsense is spouted pretty much every year by people who want to distort the issue. You don’t know what you’re talking about, you presumptuous fool!
First of all, Christmas is not SUPPOSED to be denominational. Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, et cetera, all celebrate Christmas, because they are all *Christian* denominations. Hello? Anyone home?
Secondly, you don’t know a thing about what’s in people’s hearts when they celebrate Christmas.
Anyway, have a nice eternity……in hell!
And now, these other religions just want to piggy-back off of Christmas. Leave our holiday alone! Pick your own time of year!
Ha! Typical ignorance. Maybe Christians should get there own holiday and leave Winter Solstice celebrations to the pagans.
Happy Saturnalia!
It’s divisiive, not “inclusive”.
So what is it that makes Christians a bunch of hypersensitive, whiny pussies? Happy Holidays is divisive? Only if you’re looking for a fight. To the rest of us normal people (evidently a rarity in this country), it’s just another friendly greeting during the holiday season.
Oops
Does the 2×4 up your @$$ interfere with your higher cognitive functions much? My comment was a very cynical sarcastic observation of what Christmas has become
MW = Believe How do they do that?
effwerd, I’m going to save you a little trouble here by informing you that I’ve heard all of this nonsense before. There’s nothing you can throw at me that is new to me, and you’re basically just a cliche at this point. Pagans always spout the same nonsense, and always act as if it’s somehow revelatory. I suppose you’re next going to blow me out of the water by telling me that Jesus was not actually born on December 25. I remember the idiot that told me that. He thought he’d really shaken up my world. But it doesn’t take much to excite a demon-infested pagan.
You’re presuming I don’t already know that Christmas supplanted a pagan celebration. Not only have I known this for years now, but I revel in it! It was all a part of the power of Christianity to bring down the dominance of paganism in this world. And pagans like yourself have been hopping mad ever since. Well, sorry, but the last few years we have been hitting back and winning one Christmas victory after another. It finally reached a boiling point, and you’re not going to be able to take advantage of Christian docile-ness any longer.
And by definition, if 75% of the people prefer “Merry Christmas” to that nauseating “Happy Holidays”, then they ARE the norm!
I know you don’t and won’t get this right now, but that’s okay, because you’ll have an eternity in hell to sort this all out. And yes, hell is really there, and you’re really going.
I don’t understand. Are the anti-“Happy Holidays” people trying to get us to revoke the holiday status of New Year’s Eve/Day, or is the whole thing just veiled anti-Semite ranting and raving?
Hey I. M.
No, they don’t holidays revoked. Just the opposite…. They want them to run consecutively and continuously from Thanksgiving to Presidents’ Day. Gotta admit, that sounds good to me!
effturd wrote:
“Does the 2×4 up your @$$ interfere with your higher cognitive functions much? My comment was a very cynical sarcastic observation of what Christmas has become”
———-
Uh, no. You’re comment was a very cynical sarcastic view of what you *presume* and *perceive* Christmas has become. But as I said BEFORE, and as you didn’t understand BEFORE, I’ll say it again, for the hard-of-learning pagans in the audience: You don’t know what is in people’s hearts! You…just…do…not…know! Deal with it, pagan trash.
Oops,
Thanks for proving my point, the 2×4 up your @$$ IS DEFINITELY interfering with your ability to think. In the first place, I’m neither pagan, nor athiest, nor trash. In the 2nd place, leave effwerd outta this, cause he didn’t write it. 3rd place, be your own addmission, Christmas HAS become a non-religious retail spending orgy.
4th place, “And pagans like yourself have been hopping mad ever since. Well, sorry, but the last few years we have been hitting back and winning one Christmas victory after another. It finally reached a boiling point, and you’re not going to be able to take advantage of Christian docile-ness any longer.”
Your most pointedly non christian combatitive attitude, is well….. quite honestly not very Christ like. Didn’t he promote turning the other cheek and tolerance? Golden rule, kindness to others and all?
I don’t know what is in other peoples’ hearts, and be the same token, you don’t know what is in mine. So take your militant so called christian attitude and place it with the before mentioned 2×4…… And don’t ever try to pass yourself off as Christian. It really doesn’t ring true. Are you sure you aren’t left over from the middle age crusades? You know the type, ‘We’ll convert them to christianity, or they’ll die for us trying!”
To all other participants of this thread, my sincere apologies. I don’t know why Oops hit a nerve and set my off. I do wish all of you a Very Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays. Be safe and happy
(You know Oops, holidays, like days that are not Holy Days, but still celebrated, like, say for example, New Years Day?)
It was all a part of the power of Christianity to bring down the dominance of paganism in this world.
Yes, cuz Christianity is all about killing or subjugation of the non-believers.
And pagans like yourself have been hopping mad ever since.
I’m not a pagan.
And yes, hell is really there, and you’re really going.
You and you’re dreams of genocide and eternal torture. Get a real religion freak.
effturd wrote:
“Does the 2×4 up your @$$ interfere with your higher cognitive functions much? My comment was a very cynical sarcastic observation of what Christmas has become”
I did not write that. More proof of Christianity’s propensity to lie. And it doesn’t look like you can spell “werd” correctly.
Happy giftmas for all you neopagans out there.
Hey Sol
IF I had been drinking Dr.Pepper I would have spewed, that was funny!
The iTube Mac ad videos are much appreciated at my house. It’s the only way I can view them on my older rig. Thanks MDN.
…And pagans like yourself have been hopping mad ever since…
So, you Christians co-opted a ‘pagan’ celebration from a then — MAJORITY — and after 2000 years when they want it back, you throw a childish tantrum. Your mommie’s tough tittie is waiting for you.
BTW, everything that lives — including human ‘traditions’ — must grow or die. Growth means change. The change can be slow, but it WILL die if it doesn’t grow.
With regards to your comment on ‘majority’. A culture’s compassion is measured by it’s willingness to recognize and honor the rights of ‘the MINORITY’. (Uh, how does it make you feel and what does it make you think of the MAJORITY of people —2000 years ago — who thought it was okay to feed the ‘minority’ Christians, to hungry lions?) From the actions of a ‘majority’ of Christians these days, I’d say Christians know almost nothing about compassion.
Compassion does take a big heart, you’re hatred makes yours very tiny.
Anyway, the next time you flame someone for having offered you a ‘Happy Holiday’ or ‘Season’s Greetings’, hopefully they will turn around and retract their regards to you, then tell you to DROP DEAD!
“Anyway, the next time you flame someone for having offered you a ‘Happy Holiday’ or ‘Season’s Greetings’, hopefully they will turn around and retract their regards to you, then tell you to DROP DEAD!”
I’m not going to rant or write a flame about it, but I find “seasons greetings” and “happy holidays” quite offensive. I’m sure that not everyone who finds the removal of “Merry Christmas” offensive are going to speak out about it. In fact most people that you offend never say anything about it to you.
Consider than if 75% figure is true, and likely in a heavily Christian country like the US it’s prolby not far from that, quite a large number of people WILL be offended by that term, and more than likely, most of them will never say anything about it.
So being Politically Correct IS offensive, it’s just more likely to offend people that say nothing than those that make a big ruckous.
Welcome to the thought police.