"I'm a Mac," "I'm a PC" ads get under Gates' skin

Bob Garfield of Advertising Age (and NPR of course) interviewed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates recently. They talked about lots of serious topics, but this being a smart-alecky blog and all, I'm highlighting the most trivial.

GARFIELD: I want to ask you one more thing: Those Mac ads -- how do you feel about the John Hodgman character?

GATES: I can't comment on someone else's ad.

GARFIELD: OK ... but he's you.

GATES: Yeah, I'm not gonna comment on someone else's ad.

GARFIELD: OK, well, Bill Gates, thank you so much for joining us.

(Silence)

GARFIELD: Can I just have a clean goodbye?

(Silence)

GARFIELD: OK, can you just say goodbye? Thank you or goodbye or something like that?

GATES: Goodbye.

Now, for your time-wasting pleasure, wavLength embeds a side-by-side comparison of a Mac v. PC ad from the U.S., U.K. and Japan.