Negativity has never been a selling point, even when you point it out with your competitors. When was the last time a guy convinced a girl to go out with him by putting down ALL the other men.
Lead by example, not from behind.
The most frustrating part of all this is that you can clearly see that the high end game of marketing is truly run by a$$holes, at least when it comes to Microsoft and Samsung.
Samsung: u wait in line for iPhone? You are stupid! Buy my phone instead, make up for small penis with big screen that no fit in pocket!
Microsoft: "Look how stupid Apple, who is mopping the floor with us in this industry, is! I guess that makes us retarded."
Microsoft just went full retard. You never go full retard.
I try Bing about once a year using a side-by-side comparison of search results. Bing has yet to give me the result I want, whereas Google does every time. I suppose Google may have an advantage from tracking me for a decade. Regardless of the reason, I go with the better result. For full disclosure, I dislike Google and Microsoft equally. (for unrelated reasons, I despise Facebook an order of magnitude more than both Google and MS combined).
Couldn't care less...
...Bing is NOT Google.
Number 1 reason I use it and will persist, there IS NO side by side in my situation.
When I commented before, I hadn't seen the commercial, but I just did, and holy cow!!!!!
That is a sick Steve Jobs (with cancer) sitting there and also Jony Ives.
This is truly one disgusting commercial! And mocking the dead?
Microsoft truly has no shame, what a crap company.
I only saw one of the videos. I agree it was crap and am happy to assume that the others were equally poor.
I too assumed that the two rear of heads were supposed to be those of Jobs and Ive but I think you protest too loudly apropos the cancer element. I could not see anything which mocked Jobs' illness. Indeed the two heads were not even directly mocked.
What? Society depicts dead people all the time, especially leaders in society. Most money in the world has dead people printed on it. I'm sure we could find almost all the well-known presidents of the US in some cartoon from the last couple decades.
Your comment says a lot about you as well. It shows you make knee-jerk reactions instead of being able to intelligently analyze a situation. The video doesn't make fun of or disparage his death or his cancer. It uses him in the role that he played....the CEO of Apple.
You are also wrong about the video being used to sell phones. As many people have pointed out, Microsoft didn't say anything about their phones, they only disparaged Apple. Therefore, your comment about "depicting dead people in an attempt to sell phones" is completely irrelevant.
Also, the word is "recognize," not "recognise."
In the main I agree with the sentiment of your post.
I would however like to point out that the majority of people that speak English natively live outside of the USA. There are many words that we spell the original way, recognise, is one such word.
Your comment says a lot about you as well. It shows you make knee-jerk reactions instead of being able to intelligently analyze a situation.
Also, the word is "recognize," not "recognise." .
I'm able to intelligently analyse enough to see that you're just ignorantly defending your opinion on one of the poorest selling devices in the market.
And don't even know that different countries use different types of English.
Erm... wouldn't a snow ball rolling down a hill gather both momentum and mass?
Just saying
Sure, it's gaining momentum and mass, but the question is also, where it's going.
So that would imply it's going down faster and with more consequences.
So if the WP8 is the snowball going downhill, maybe it takes the entire Windows ecosystem and M$ down with it, and doing so faster and with more impact than one might expect?
(not making that prediction, just following through on the metaphor...)
If so, anyone 'know' or able to guestimate what the impact will be to Google, financially?
Besides saving a $Billion or two shared with Apple? By 2015 Google's mobile ad revenues have been projected at around 10% of Google gross revenues. Assuming about half of that comes via iOS and some significant part of that could flow Microsoft's way, yeah it could negatively affect them. I think Google would still hold a good part of it anyway thru their iOS services like YouTube and browsers like Chrome and Firefox as well as maintaining their overall market lead in mobile ad share.
This is complete idiocy. Microsoft has an innovation problem, which is getting exposed now. They are literally failed in all aspect of modern technological advance and has become the greatest underdog of the current century. Instead of addressing their innovation crisis they are simply trying to mock Apple which will only get backfire with a vengeance.
Today Apple products are formidable in every sense as it has a magical touch in merging hardware, software and services with simplicity where the consumer do not feel any difference. The moment you switch to Apple there is no turning back as it makes your digital experience colourful be it a novice or expert users, whereas Microsoft make that experience worse to pathetic by escalating the saturation of black and white with the passage of time.
Today Microsoft the greatest underdog of the century is sinking in the middle of technological crisis. They don’t have any ideal how to surge ahead as their business strategy is based on a foundation of copy … cut … paste or even go to the extend of stealing which is no longer going to work in their favor because no one can just survive by cheating. When this is no longer going to work what else you can expect mock, criticize and turn a blind eye towards those mind blowing technologies being innovated by others with simplicity.
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Microsoft just went full retard. You never go full retard.
Yep!
I currently use Bing as my default Search Engine - much nicer than Google...
The number one reason why I use Bing...
...it's not Google.
I try Bing about once a year using a side-by-side comparison of search results. Bing has yet to give me the result I want, whereas Google does every time. I suppose Google may have an advantage from tracking me for a decade. Regardless of the reason, I go with the better result. For full disclosure, I dislike Google and Microsoft equally. (for unrelated reasons, I despise Facebook an order of magnitude more than both Google and MS combined).
Couldn't care less...
...Bing is NOT Google.
Number 1 reason I use it and will persist, there IS NO side by side in my situation.
It's called a "retirement." Ballmer gets to save face as he's shown the door.
Poor guy, having to work out what to do with himself and several billion dollars.
Or like Saturday, no class
Or it'll just melt away and be long forgotten.
When I commented before, I hadn't seen the commercial, but I just did, and holy cow!!!!!
That is a sick Steve Jobs (with cancer) sitting there and also Jony Ives.
This is truly one disgusting commercial! And mocking the dead?
Microsoft truly has no shame, what a crap company.
I only saw one of the videos. I agree it was crap and am happy to assume that the others were equally poor.
I too assumed that the two rear of heads were supposed to be those of Jobs and Ive but I think you protest too loudly apropos the cancer element. I could not see anything which mocked Jobs' illness. Indeed the two heads were not even directly mocked.
What? Society depicts dead people all the time, especially leaders in society. Most money in the world has dead people printed on it. I'm sure we could find almost all the well-known presidents of the US in some cartoon from the last couple decades.
Your comment says a lot about you as well. It shows you make knee-jerk reactions instead of being able to intelligently analyze a situation. The video doesn't make fun of or disparage his death or his cancer. It uses him in the role that he played....the CEO of Apple.
You are also wrong about the video being used to sell phones. As many people have pointed out, Microsoft didn't say anything about their phones, they only disparaged Apple. Therefore, your comment about "depicting dead people in an attempt to sell phones" is completely irrelevant.
Also, the word is "recognize," not "recognise."
In the main I agree with the sentiment of your post.
I would however like to point out that the majority of people that speak English natively live outside of the USA. There are many words that we spell the original way, recognise, is one such word.
Your comment says a lot about you as well. It shows you make knee-jerk reactions instead of being able to intelligently analyze a situation.
Also, the word is "recognize," not "recognise." .
I'm able to intelligently analyse enough to see that you're just ignorantly defending your opinion on one of the poorest selling devices in the market.
And don't even know that different countries use different types of English.
Sesame Street ABC book cover, now deleted.
Zed Zed Top.
Wow, that you even respond to such...posts. I'd just let him burn to ash.
This snowball of yours is going downhill, right¿
Erm... wouldn't a snow ball rolling down a hill gather both momentum and mass?
Just saying
Woodn't that have been a good idea.
Erm... wouldn't a snow ball rolling down a hill gather both momentum and mass?
Just saying
Sure, it's gaining momentum and mass, but the question is also, where it's going.
So that would imply it's going down faster and with more consequences.
So if the WP8 is the snowball going downhill, maybe it takes the entire Windows ecosystem and M$ down with it, and doing so faster and with more impact than one might expect?
(not making that prediction, just following through on the metaphor...)
Huh?
Why should Apple stick with Google for iOS 7? What has Google done for Apple?
(Note: I don't know if it's true that Apple is switching to Bing for iOS 7, but the above logic doesn't make any sense if they did).
He means at the same time Apple may be switching to Bing Microsoft ramps up ridicule of Apple products.
Microsoft biting the hand that feeds it.
If so, anyone 'know' or able to guestimate what the impact will be to Google, financially?
This is complete idiocy. Microsoft has an innovation problem, which is getting exposed now. They are literally failed in all aspect of modern technological advance and has become the greatest underdog of the current century. Instead of addressing their innovation crisis they are simply trying to mock Apple which will only get backfire with a vengeance.
Today Apple products are formidable in every sense as it has a magical touch in merging hardware, software and services with simplicity where the consumer do not feel any difference. The moment you switch to Apple there is no turning back as it makes your digital experience colourful be it a novice or expert users, whereas Microsoft make that experience worse to pathetic by escalating the saturation of black and white with the passage of time.
Today Microsoft the greatest underdog of the century is sinking in the middle of technological crisis. They don’t have any ideal how to surge ahead as their business strategy is based on a foundation of copy … cut … paste or even go to the extend of stealing which is no longer going to work in their favor because no one can just survive by cheating. When this is no longer going to work what else you can expect mock, criticize and turn a blind eye towards those mind blowing technologies being innovated by others with simplicity.