Mac “security” ad banner: couldn’t they have done better?
I came across this advertisement targeted at Macintosh users while perusing Downloadsquad.com about a year ago. It’s truly a piece of art that should be in the “I’m with stupid” museum. I’ll let the screenshot speak for itself (cordially pointed to with arrows):
First, the written words aren’t user-friendly, and some would argue, simply don’t jive with what the ad is trying to do: (“Click Next to recommend improvements.”)… Recommend? Shouldn’t it be something like “Click Next to see recommended improvements”? This could be forgiven.
But making an interactive Mac advertisement look like a Windows XP interface is simply inexcusable. It makes me wonder: what kind of a silly (read: uneducated) user would click on such a poorly-designed ad…
Here is another one, recommending Internet Explorer 6 or higher for me on a Mac running Safari 3. The wording in this one was most likely “composed” by an exchange student (again, I’ll let the image speak for itself):
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