There's definitely a certain irony to the Orwellian 1984 conformity which it invokes, given the way the markets have evolved-
The commercial was aimed at audiences to choose a personal computer which gave the user more freedom of choice than IBM compatible clones (I suppose it's also supposed to be a shot at Commodore or any competitor, rightly or wrongly).
With mobile devices and tablets hardly being a matter of choice anymore as the desktop market is quickly becoming a question mark, with more streamlined interfaces, operating systems and games and apps, with end users becoming throngs of eager consumers ready to grab up the next device because they cannot live in the modern world without them anymore, you'd need another paradigm shift that perhaps knocks the current trends off their laurels in order to make this commercial work again. But it's Apple now who is the face on the screen.
