Welcome to Nineteen Forty One, the newest addition to the list of creative concepts from Zoom Creates. This is the Etc. post; it will happen without fail every Friday. Sometimes it will feature a rant, other times a rave.

Let me first begin by saying that my name is Lisa Harvey, and I am an account executive at Zoom Creates. But more importantly I am a recovering PC, also known as a Mac. Although a blog is far too short to go on at length about why I switched over from PC to Mac, one thing I can tell you is I will never go back. There is something to be said for the feeling you get when you are owned by a Mac. Life becomes easier, prettier, more organized and more fun. You get to join a group of elitists, but why? Why is Mac the creme de la creme? Besides a fabulous user platform and interface, what it comes down to is marketing.

Ask any Mac fanatic what the pivotal moment for Apple Computers was and they will tell you that things really took off with a little ditty of a Superbowl commercial back in 1984. The commercial was a play off of George Orwell’s totalitarian vision of the future, and the tagline stated “Why 1984 won’t be like 1984.” And it wasn’t. (more…)