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Standing up against the government is one of the messages of their anti-1984 ad.

No it isn’t. That was about standing up to IBM.

Now we need an ad about standing up to Apple.

I thought the Big Brother figure on screen looked more like Bill Gates than IBM. The real enemy was Microsoft and Windows.

The first version of Microsoft Windows only appeared a year after that ad. In 1984 Microsoft was just a supplier for IBM.

Microsoft wasn’t the entrenched giant in 1983.