Apple Turned The Crowdstrike Bsod Issue Into An Anti-pc Ad

It’s been a while since Apple past mocked Windows security, but nan iPhone shaper has conscionable released an advertisement that hits Windows hard. The eight-minute commercialized pokes nosy astatine nan CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) rumor that took down millions of Windows machines past year.

Apple’s advertisement follows The Underdogs, a fictional institution that’s astir to be a waste and acquisition show, earlier a PC outage causes chaos and a Blue Screen of Death shuts down machines astatine nan convention. If it wasn’t clear Apple was mocking nan infamous CrowdStrike incident, an IT master appears successful nan mediate of nan advertisement and starts discussing kernel-level functionality, nan halfway portion of an operating strategy that has unrestricted entree to strategy representation and hardware.

CrowdStrike’s Falcon protection package operates astatine nan Kernel level, and a buggy update past year created BSOD issues that took down banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, and overmuch more.

“The endpoint information API handles kernel-level functionality by default, it doesn’t assistance kernel-level access,” says Sam, Apple’s information master character. “The deepest parts of an operating strategy are being protected from modification by third-party package aliases malware, which is evidently what happened to those PCs. It’s a PC problem, your Macs are secure.”

Apple’s solution successful its commercial? Switch to Mac, of course. The advertisement shows really The Underdogs were capable to support moving connected Macs and make sales, while nan remainder of nan normal switched to Mac Minis.

Apple has a agelong history of mocking Windows security. The original “Get a Mac” TV run started astir 20 years ago, and included a 30-second spot of nan “I’m a PC” feline sneezing aft catching a virus. Apple’s “I’m a Mac” guy, character Justin Long, moreover returned a fewer years agone and defected to Intel to praise PCs, earlier besides appearing successful Qualcomm’s skit blasting macOS notifications and nag screens.