Chinese tech firms often get a bad rep for stealing ideas from their Western counterparts, and, well, sometimes it’s deserved.
As part of its ongoing efforts to break into the American market, Chinese tech giant Huawei — the third biggest smartphone seller in the world after Samsung and Apple — has hired a familiar face: actor Justin Long, best known from the famous “Get a Mac” ad campaign. Long appeared in a first ad for Huawei which debuted at CES earlier this month (“The Interview”), with a second (“The Audition”) popping up on YouTube yesterday, and co-starring a Huawei MateBook running Windows 10:
The ads don’t make any direct references to Long’s previous work, but there are some not-so-subtle allusions. (“I have a tonne of...
via The Verge
