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Originally Posted by Dave Beauvais
These ads -- while misleading -- are no more so than the Mac vs. PC ads from Apple or most other product commercials. Both rely on exploiting stereotypes, omitting the sometimes significant drawbacks while highlighting the benefits, and generally portraying the advertised product in a very positive way. That's advertising. It isn't designed to give you a balanced and fair comparison of products; it's designed to sell one company's product instead of their competitors' product by appealing to people in the target market.
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Deceptive or not, that isn't even the worst part with this ad.
The guy specifically laid out three criteria, said he was technically savvy and very picky, picked up a MacBook that was more powerful than what he bought and said it was all about aesthetics, then bought something that didn't fit any of the three criteria he started with.
That's what has me scratching my head at this point. I just don't get it.
Like I said; at least Lauren kinda got what she was looking for. Giampaolo, well, who knows what the hell he was looking for; he certainly had no idea.