The “I’m a Mac / and I’m a PC” line of commercials from Apple that mocked the abilities and performance of Microsoft Windows software and the Personal Computers that ran them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHgKu81Tv9A
The criticisms were exhibited in amusing, memorable, and effective ways, so it was smart for Intel – recently dropped as a processor chip partner from Apple – to hire the “I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long for their own series of ads titled “Justin Gets Real” throwing shade at Apple and it’s custom M1 processors. Intel says laptops powered by Intel processors are better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gtRRMd2_UI
Other ads in the series have Long dunking on Apple’s lack of touchscreen Macs, the inability to plug more than one external display into M1 Macs (what? why is that a thing?), and a variety of different options available for laptops powered by Intel.
It’s all clever marketing, but dang Justin – where’s your loyalty at? In 2017, the actor starred in a series of Huawei commercials promoting the company’s Mate 9 smartphone. Meanwhile, the “I’m a PC” actor – who I met at LAX baggage claim in 2009 – has ironically stuck with Apple, appearing as a “one more thing” goof in 2020’s Apple MacBook announcement event:
The rap on Microsoft is that they started out stealing from Apple and continue to look out their Windows onto the Apple orchard for things to take and implement into their own products. The worst and most obvious example is the Zune. I mean, comethefuckON Microsoft… MP3 players existed for a few years before the iPod and Microsoft didn’t want in until Apple revolutionized the market with something unique and game changing. Instead of entering with something also unique and game changing, the Zune was a straight up clone of the iPod complete with click wheel. Apple responded by immediately dropping the click wheel format, making it obsolete and punking Microsoft – a move siblings have been using for decades (“younger sister trying to copy you? completely change your style so all the things she bought to look like you no longer look like you. take THAT, bitch”).
But going back to the basics: isn’t it true that Microsoft stole the start of Apple and built a billion dollar corporation on it? For the answer, I turn to Hollywood. I skimmed the the made for tv movie The Pirates of Silicone Valley a few years ago and it appears to conclude that Steve Jobs got punked by a crafty Bill Gates.
Not all of these are steals. some of these things were just computer things that the Windows operating system made popular and then mac adopted. like how Microsoft “stole” the mouse. Apple didnt invent the computer mouse but no one used them in their hardware besides like…idk…NASA until apple started manufacturing them. Some in the list seem like stretches to label as stolen. like “control panel“. Apple had separate control panels, named as such, fist – then Microsoft stole the name and put them in one area – then Apple let Microsoft have the name and put their control panels into one System Preferences window. That’s marked as Apple stealing from Micro. and that’s a stretch.
Some might be valid steals that i guess that i didnt really think about before because i grew up using Windows first before i joined the cult of fruit but it still comes off as a little weak only because the features seem more common and not Microsoft-exclusive. Things you’d find in video game menu’s or software across all platforms or in Linux or in movies where they’re faking an operating system. but those are most likely Microsoft imitations as well, so it’s not really a valid argument. There is a Top 10 features Microsoft stole from Mac OS X too.
The recent copies are what I noticed, because Windows Vista came out right when I made the switch to using Apple for my main computing needs and I was just like “whoah… really??”
I didn’t understand this image at first cuz I didn’t see how it split 1 port into more until I realized at the end of each of those strings is – duh – a device that plugs into them, thereby using multiple devices in a chain that uses one port. I wouldn’t have thought a single USB space could handle several devices but you know what they say – if it’s in a picture I saw on the internet, it must be true. So…cool. now where do I get a set?
“Smart Dust is an emerging technology made up from tiny, wireless sensors or “motes”. Eventually, these devices will be smart enough to talk with other sensors yet small enough to fit on the head of a pin. Each mote is a tiny computer with a power supply, one more sensors, and communications system. The term was coined in the 1990s by UC Berkeley researcher Kris Pister, who envisioned “smart dust” spreading rice-grain sized sensors across the Earth (think a more mobile version of Helen Hunt’s tornado trackers in ‘Twister’). These sensors would gather loads of environmental data, and then send it all back to a central server.
Future World Micro Computers sprinkled everywhere, tracking and recording our movements. Dreams of a better future, but usher in a Big Brother nightmare with no privacy.
this response to the above video (including the video in it, so if you only want to watch one of these you can kill 2 ducks with one rock here) poses a conspiracy theory that’s kindov retarded but im posting it anyway. It says there are already Smart Dust particles in the air and that we breath them and it gives us cancer but then disolves into our body to control us and thats how come there is no actual evidence of that happening any time ever and also how there are so many American Idol fans still.
