Get a Mac - Vista Vs Mac - Security - New Mac Add

Hambo B · 1.4M views · 2007-02-06 · 0:31

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Overview

A short Apple Get a Mac ad that mocks Windows Vista's constant security pop-up prompts.

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Cited, often ironically, in macOS security threads as Apple's mockery of permission prompts that macOS later adopted itself.

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latexr · 2025-10 · Reference
> I wonder if anyone else here is old enough to remember the "I'm a Mac", "And I'm a PC" ads. Those ads ran from 2006 to 2009. That’s between 16 and 19 years ago. How young do you imagine the typical HN commenter is? > There was one that was about all the annoying security pop-ups Windows (used to?) have. Those have been relentlessly mocked on the Mac for years. I remember a point where several articles were written making that exact comparison. People have been calling it “macOS Vista” since before Apple Silicon was a thing. > WIW, it starts here: [LINK] A bit better quality: [VIDEO]
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sureIy · 2025-05 · Criticism
Technically you're right. From an end-user standpoint, it's irrelevant. Apple's mock vista ad applies just as well to Ventura: they're all annoying and a security theater if the user is just told to input admin password into any random popup. [VIDEO]
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codetrotter · 2023-07 · Reference
> Apple didn't give two stones about security until it became a marketing/selling point as a counterpoint to the big G That’s not true. Apple was position itself as being better at security than Microsoft long before Google was selling devices to people. For example: [VIDEO]
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