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The Best Tech Ad I’ve Seen Lately

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Re: The Best Tech Ad I’ve Seen Lately

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The only takeaway I have from this post is the continuing idiocy of the Apple vs Android vs Whatever "battle", as if it's some kind of exclusive choice. "For the record, I’m a huge Android fan so it takes a lot for me to write a blog post about something impressive by Apple." I own an iPhone 4S and a Nexus 7. They're both great devices. I've seen Windows Phone in action and it looks cool; Mozilla's B2G stuff is looki…

You chose to focus on one aspect of a blog post that gives the reader a little bit of context and background to the author, but otherwise very positively outlines an advertisement that in his opinion executed everything it set out to, and then publicly decried him for barely doing everything your commentary actually does. I found myself nodding in agreement with all he said about the ad, and he said it well. I think…

It wasn't really directed at the author, it was more a general comment on this type of thing. So for that I apologise to the author.

Re: The Best Tech Ad I’ve Seen Lately

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This article was spoiled, a bit, by the "1 Tip of a Flat Belly" ad that showed up at the bottom. Maybe it's that I use an ad blocker on my main computer, but I'm not accustomed to blocking ads with my mind. But it sure would be nice to see good ads for a change.

I use an ad blocker, I didn't even realize I had ads on my blog...

Re: The Best Tech Ad I’ve Seen Lately

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post #14

I first glance I thought he means the cover of the magazine and how it resembles the tiles in WP 8. It might have been a brilliant ad for MS as well.

Apparently MSFT thinks magazine covers are a great way to show off the new Windows 8 UI: http://adage.com/article/media/windows-8-push-arrives-14-con...

It's just a little sad to see how they did it, when they could have done it so much better. :/
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