“I’M A MAC!  I DON’T HAVE PROBLEMS, VIRUSES, OR HARDWARE CRASHES LIKE PC’S DO!!”  Would someone like to tell me who the hell made Justin Long the spokesperson for Mac?  It’s a rhetorical question and I didn’t expect you to say “Steve Jobs did!” I understand what Jobs is doing by putting a celebrity as the new face of Apple, he’s quite the businessman.  If he wasn’t, then I don’t think Apple would have asked him to come back and run the company after they fired him in the 80s. Back to Long, the concern I have is, why him? Why a comedian? Aside from some of his extremely funny movies, what else has the guy done?  Let me rephrase that.  What else has he done to prove that he is savvy enough to comment on whether or not a Mac is better than a PC besides read from a script? I understand what it means when Michael Jordan was promoting a new line of Air Jordans in his playing days.  That is a basketball player promoting a baskeball shoe.  That makes total sense to me, but a comedian qualified to endorse a computer?
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