Animated Gates vs Jobs
There are a few of laughs here.
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Shut the “F” up
Disclaimer: Rated R, but as rants go, this one is brilliant.
What is it about Apple that makes its users unable to shut their mouths? Everywhere I … . They regurgitate lines directly from Apple’s marketing campaign, like “it just works.” I have the following rebuttals to this argument:
1. If everything on a Mac just works, then why does a website called “Mac fix it” exist, assholes? Here are a few choice topics on macfixitforums.com:
-Login window stuck!
-lower caSe “S” key not working!!
-Menu bar keeps flashing
-I can’t drag and drop!…
Stupid user base aside, I will never own a Mac. It’s not so much that I’m a PC loyalist. I’m not. It’s that I’m not stylish enough to own one. Most iPod commercials feature guys with long hair, chicks roller skating, and guys wearing fedoras. I have dandruff, and I buy most of my jeans from a grocery store. I feel like in order to have a Mac, I need to be:# An artist.
# In a band.
# Unemployed (see above).
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Switchblog Parodies Now on WordPress
This is the original SwitchBlog - PARODIES page pasted into the first post in the new format using WordPress
The
Will Ferrell “Switch” Ad from
MacWorld Expo NYC 2002
Very funny,
very Will Ferrell!
hosted at technojunkie.org
Ubergeek.tv
- Mac “Switch” Parody. Move
to Iceland!
Move to
Iceland! This is by far the funniest “Switch” Parody
I have seen. Brilliant!
Also see: target=_blank>Mark Frauenfelder on apple.com/switch
Mark’s blog.
As an interesting footnote, check out this story on target=_blank>Wired.com - Iceland Is Hot for Macworld.
Brave
New World - by Aldous Huxley
IMDB -Brave New World (1980)
(TV)
IMDB - Brave New World
(1998) (TV) with Leonard Nimoy
Macboy.com
-Very clever Parodies lovingly animated.
target=_blank>Big Brother - What? Big Brother from the 1984
ad switches.
target=_blank>Dell Dude - This… er, Rules Dude!
Bill
Gates - Great Bill Gates Voice!
MacRumors.com
“Switch Video Contest”
Winners
1st
Place
Monkey Switch
Ad.
Monkey Switch Ad was recently featured on target=_blank>TechTV’s Screensavers.
2nd Place
target=_blank>Grow-Up….With a Mac3rd Place
Tweek
South Park Lots of “excessive bandwidth errors”, hosted on
.MacHonorable Mention
Lego
Switch Lots of “excessive bandwidth errors”, hosted on .Mac
Ballmer
SwitchOther Entries
Bill
Gates
Spock
Switches
Microsoft
Convention
Bad
Day
Pong
Q
& A With Bill Gates
Crack
Switch Doesn’t work sometimes, hosted on .Mac
Toasted
Pentium Guy Doesn’t work sometimes, hosted on .Mac
HomePage:
Member’s Web Site Not Found Doesn’t work sometimes, hosted
on .Mac
DickDog
Digital - Porn
Richard
Larue, .Mac diatribeA real Apple ad from the old days with “Switch”
added
Switch
Ad by pheezik (kind of) Does work sometimes, hosted on .Mac
Click
for more info on the contestantsGot Mirrors? If you are mirroring any of the parodies that
don’t work on .Mac
Email me - martin@switchblog.com
OReilly Conference
Parodies
Sarah
Switches to XP Not! One of several VERY GEEKY parodies done
at the conference. O’Reilly
Network: Mac Switch-Back, In-Progress [September 22, 2002]
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More Parodies
DrunkGamers.com
Drunk Gamers indeed. A very PC-centric parody that redeems itself
with good comedic timing.
Apple Switch
Parody - “Big Macs” This Chris Farleyesque parody about a rather
sick nerd who loves Big Macs, ends rather disturbingly. Very funny.
The
Joy of Tech! A still cartoon parody of Bill Gates
ANI MOLLER
This one parodies Ellen
Feiss, Very funny.
BENBROWN.com/switch
Ani Moller’s husband doing parody in the “raunch is clever” vein.
This is just WRONG! You have been warned.
A
quirky parody The charm of this one is in the deadpan acting.
The timing isn’t as good as the Drunk Gamers parody, but it’s still
funny.
Switch
the Stonefish MOV Whatever…
Fury.com:
Bait and Switch: A Moral Dilemma LAME! This is little more than
venting… boring venting.
Bitter Video Editor He says he gets accused of being a Windows apologist. Well, duh, give us a parody on the “Blue screen of
death” and spyware infestations prevalent on Windows and you’ll nip that right in the bud. This parody is funny because computer problem ARE so universal, and believe it or not,
Microsoft doesn’t have monopoly on that.
TechTV
is using "Switch" parodies for their promos of the "ScreenSavers."
sunspot.net
- maryland news
Inspired by the “Switch” adds. Definitely! Switch
to PowerLogix! Another Switch ad parody or, in this case, tribute
might be a better word.
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Know any
more Parodies? Making a Parody?
Email me - martin@swichblog.com
Apple’s
Switch campaign has
become something of a cultural phenomenon, inspiring a multitude of
parodies and personal stories. I find them Interesting so I’m putting
them in a place where I can easily find them. Oh yeah, now you can
find them too.
The parodies are only a small part of the story
though. Switching computing platforms can be either a trivial decision
or a major one depending on your individual circumstances. I can
be as easy as figuring out two websites with different interfaces
or as hard as learning a new language. What makes switching easy
and what makes it hard are what this blog is about. So look for:
Links to people who are blogging their “Switch”
experiences ie. Switchblogs.
Tips and tricks for Switching
More Parodies
and lots and
lots of Ellen
Feiss. (Because I want traffic. Thanks Ellen!
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