{"id":522490,"date":"2010-04-09T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/5356d728f65c730384bbcf7ae634d6d5"},"modified":"2010-04-09T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:45:00","slug":"apple-to-end-get-a-mac-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522490","title":{"rendered":"Apple to end &#8216;Get a Mac&#8217; commercials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/4\/99283-get-a-mac-1.jpg\" alt=\"Get A Mac\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve all grown accustomed to Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Get a Mac&rdquo; ads and their hilarity, but if rumors prove to be true, we can all say goodbye to everyone&#8217;s favorite anti-PC commercials. The stars of Apple&rsquo;s clever little TV tidbits are Justin Long and John Hodgman.&nbsp; Long, during an interview with AV Club, was asked about the future of the ads, and he replied with:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&ldquo;You know, I think they might be done. In fact, I heard from John, I think they&rsquo;re going to move on. I can&rsquo;t say definitively, which is sad, because not only am I going to miss doing them, but also working with John.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Long&rsquo;s answer isn&rsquo;t solid evidence that the ads are no more, but it is a good indication of what to expect.&nbsp; The ads were witty and could make you chuckle the first hundred times you saw them, but just like any commercial, they grew stale (just like Apple&#8217;s &#8220;There&rsquo;s an app for that,&#8221; FreeCreditReport.com, and eTrade&#8217;s baby spots).&nbsp; With other companies nipping at Apple&rsquo;s heels, I&rsquo;m sure they&rsquo;re ready to retaliate and they probably have a few ads set to chop and hack at Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, and Google\/Android.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m curious to see where Apple takes it, and how creative they get this time.&nbsp; Will they go simple again, or will they make something more visually pleasing, like the DROID commercials?&nbsp;&nbsp; What would you like to see from them?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2010\/04\/08\/end-of-an-era-get-a-mac-ads-rumored-to-be-finished\/\" >BGR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/16h0_aXKg6iVdrQLvPwBlwG53gs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/16h0_aXKg6iVdrQLvPwBlwG53gs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/16h0_aXKg6iVdrQLvPwBlwG53gs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/16h0_aXKg6iVdrQLvPwBlwG53gs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/hTzOaXZCR8A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve all grown accustomed to Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Get a Mac&rdquo; ads and their hilarity, but if rumors prove to be true, we can all say goodbye to everyone&#8217;s favorite anti-PC commercials. The stars of Apple&rsquo;s clever little TV tidbits are Justin Long and John Hodgman.&nbsp; Long, during an interview with AV Club, was asked about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}