With the upcoming election I feel like all I see are negative campaigns, although I have to say the majority of them are from Apple against Microsoft.  Seems like Apple can’t say any thing nice about their own products and only negative things about Microsoft (like their commercial about MS spending advertising money.  hmm, who has more commercials, more billboards, more magazine ads?)

Apple commercials should really just tout their advantages instead of saying what’s wrong with others, I don’t see these commercials being helpful for their image; maybe I’m wrong since I’m not part of the Mac Cult.  They should tout their single mouse button, or the number of configuration changes that require you to run them in terminal, the great advantage of PowerPC apps that run simualted on an Intel and slow down the machine.  Apples really are simple to use if you don’t want to do anything complicated.

I’m not trying to be mean about Apple, I’m just not blinded by anything they do.  Nor am I blinded by Microsoft either.  I prefer the iPod to most other MP3 players, I prefer Windows Media Player 11 to iTunes, I prefer the fact that OS X has the Darwin core based on unix, and runs native GNU applications via Terminal, but I really don’t like Apple commercials.

Seinfeld & Gates “At Home” TV Ad features Jerry and Bill again sitting at the dinner table and still playing with shoes.  I love the somewhat subtle Windows log on the backpack sitting next to Jerry on the bed.