Time To Get A Mac
May 31st, 2007
By Sebastian Marders
Whenever I see the ad, “Get a Mac,” that Apple Computer is running, I always get a good laugh seeing it. The 24 series ad shows two persons, one signifying a Macintosh computer and the other a Windows PC computer, talking with each other with the “Mac” upstaging the “Windows PC” every time.
This ad campaign was so successful that the Windows PC share of the computer market got hit significantly with thousands of their users switching to the Mac platform. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was said to be very agitated by the negativity of the “Get a Mac” ad towards the Windows OS platform that he ordered a multi million dollar ad campaign to counter the ill effects of said ad.
One may argue that Apple’s Mac only has less than 10 percent share of the worldwide computer market but numbers can be deceiving in many ways. Apple Computer has a monopoly in the Mac Os platform, there is no other computer company authorized to make Macintosh computers so that less than 10 percent share is already a big slice of the worldwide computer market.
Almost everything the “Get a Mac” ad campaign says is true. Mac Os is more reliable than the Windows OS. It is faster and has fewer viruses affecting its system. Multimedia artists and graphic designers prefer a Mac to do their artistic work on. Lots of popular computer graphics software started on the Mac platform and later ported to Windows.
The newest innovation that probably gave Apple the huge surge in Mac users is Boot Camp, wherein the newer Mac models can use both Mac OS and Windows OS on the same computer. This has lead to a number of Windows PC users trying out Mac computers for the first time. Most of these new Mac users have not switched back to using Windows powered PCs after seeing how wonderful Macs perform.
They say the best form of flattery is when your competitors imitate your product. Not all of Apple Computer’s products are new concepts. When Apple launched its first iMac computer, the all in one computer casing had already existed in the older Mac models. All Apple did was to change its design and add different color casings to choose from.
The following iMac model G4 was an ergonomically designed wonder that featured an LCD screen which fueled the boom of LCD screens and the slow demise of CRT screens. Its latest hit, the iPhone, had many features that existed in other smartphones like the touch screen feature. After iPhone, every major cellular phone manufacturer is producing touch screen phones to compete with iPhone.
With so many of its product features being copied by other companies, Apple continues to set the trend in new innovations in designs and concepts in the field of consumer electronics and personal computers. If you haven’t used a Mac computer before, rest assured the level of quality Apple gives to all its products is also present in a Mac. You surely will enjoy using a Mac and probably won’t switch back to the “has been” Windows based PC’s.
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