

Mac’s quality assurance and ease of use, the ads take it back to high school insults – trolling Mac for its lack of color options and that Mac doesn’t offer Face ID login. Instead of making an honest comparison about Intel’s upgraded features vs. This statement is fooling just about no one. In the ads, Long says he’s “just a real person making a real comparison between Mac and PC.” Ok, honey. It’s one thing to be petty at the moment on Twitter- hey, many famous politicians have made a name for themselves this way-but it’s quite another to stew for 20 plus years and then hire the same guy.

Speaking of Justin Long… the Dodgeball actor and Connecticut native is best known for his Mac spokesperson’s role in the Mac ads from the early aughts.īut Long recently infused his career with a much needed, headline-grabbing touch of controversy – “switching sides” by appearing in a batch of pro-Intel PC ads called “ Justin Gets Real.”Īs an actor who hasn’t been in anything for a while, Long obviously needs to go where the money is. Or, at least, a tale as old as thirty-five years ago, which can feel like the same thing in a world gone digital.
