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Apple Hawks Madonna iPods
danamania writes "Apple's latest promotion is a gimmick with Madonna, Tony Hawk or Beck's signature, or a No Doubt logo, on an iPod. It seems Apple's really pushing the iPod as a too-cool fashion accessory as much as a too-cooler MP3 player... is Maddie's signature worth an extra USD49 over the standard iPod?" Instead of $50 for the engraved signature, you can spend $20 to print "Madonna's Signature" in beautiful Helvetica.
Could it not argue that having Madonna's signature on your iPod would decrease the value?
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
The Cowboy Neal autographed iPod (really just a big X marked in crayon).
But then I realized, of course, that we're living in a Material World.
Does this mean Steve Jobs is a Material Girl?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
RED AND YELLOW, brutha! Whatcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you! Say your prayers, eat your vitamins, and use your Mac.
I am holding out for the limited edition Devo iPod.
Whip it! Whip it good!
Apple will engrave Anonymous Coward for only $19.95!
The Iron Maiden iPod... The Metallica iPod (just the irony makes it worth $50 more), the Devo iPod, and of course...
The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince iPod.
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
Anybody else find that a bit strange, I'd prefer it to show all of my contacts and appointments.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
fell on Madonna in the forest and someone recorded the audio, could I get that preloaded on my iPod instead?
Que Deus te de em dobro o que me desejas
[May God give you double that which you wish for me]
I don't think the clean look ever really goes out it just becomes less of a fad. Besides I'm sure apple will come out with a "hippie" version soon that comes in a multi colored cases and a roach clip on the back ;-)
before we can get our favourite pr0n image engraved on it? No, I'm not nescessarily suggesting that Madonna be involved...
/.Pod - slashdots any computer that you hook up to it. Keeps on wanting to be "beowoulf clustered" with iPods of the opposite gender (but of course is lucky to even get them to acknowledge it).
K&RPod - Trse UsrIntFace, very flexible though
GPLPod - If you sing along, you must record your singing and distribute the original song along with your singing.
M$Pod/SonyPod/RIAAPod - You hate it because you have to.
CaseModPod - iPod with glear plastic case, neon kit, chipped cpu w/water cooling
Kevin Mitnick edition iPod (plays music, DOSes your iMac).
Hillary Rosen edition iPod (plays nothing, shops you to the Feds for file-sharing)
Nick Cave edition iPod (plays music, but you hear only silence)
Satan edition iPod (plays music in reverse, you hear voices telling you to 'do it! do it!')
MT.
-MT.
They need an Ellen Fiess edition!
Err, the real thing? Since when does Madonna carry around a laser-engraver with her? Maybe Beck has one. I wouldn't put it past him.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life- the terror of art. -Franz Kafka
I had a friend who asked Apple if they would take a custom TrueTypeFont to engrave. Namely, a TTF for Quenya, and have it engraved in the language of Mordor:
Ash iPod durbatulúk, ash iPod gimbatul,
ash iPod thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Apple said no; a pity. I would have liked to have seen The One iPod
Madonna's dog
Sean Penn or Guy Ritchie?
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