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iPod Your BMW Officially Launched
chasingporsches writes "Apple today announced the iPod Your BMW campaign on their front page. According to the iPod Your BMW page, 'Connect with music like never before behind the wheel of your BMW 3 Series, and X3 and X5 SAV, Z4 Roadster or MINI. With the installation of an integrated adapter developed by Apple and BMW, you can now control your iPod or iPod mini through the existing audio system and multi-function steering wheel. Which means no loss of power. No loss of sound quality. No loss of control.' There is also a QuickTime TV ad available for streaming. Apparently it only works with 2002 or later BMWs and Minis, and the iPod connects to a cable in the glove compartment."
Rejoice!
Why not make one for my vintage VW Beetle, you insensitive clod!
So, when's the iPod, 1994 Honda Civic campaign coming?
The perfect sig is a lot like silence, only louder
Look out for the BMW's with white wing mirrors ;)
liqbase
the most expensive iPod accessory ever!
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
Become the 600th advertiser to mention iPod to get onto the front page of Slashdot.org!
The iPod doesn't even have a fancy cradle or slot to slide into. They just want you to lay it in your glove box. I suppose that BMW owners might be different than me but I don't have any room in my glove box after all the paperwork for the car, the manual, and the road maps (GPS is great, I use it all the time, but it doesn't solve ALL problems), I don't have room for that.
Nothing more then rich, liberal, elite, yuppy, eurotrash, scumbags. Which is exactly why my 2002 325 is getting one as soon as my dealer has them in stock!
This story is probably most likely to incite BMW owners to get an iPod to go with their car, but in my case it's actually inspired me to get a BMW to go with my iPod. :) I was close to getting one anyway, this just finalizes things for me...
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i really had no reason to drive my BMW until i read this... thanks apple!
as I hit the horn and spin the wheel maddly in a clockwise direction to cycle through my playlist.
here is a way better solution plus a better vehicle
**ducks**
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I miss the old Apple days (before they became a fashion statement)
Yeah, the Apple ][ was one heck of a computer.
People here will cut their computer cases to pieces, slit ribon cables, attempt avoid burning up their over-clocked processor by putting WATERcooling in the case, but bitch and moan when a cable in their car is in a place they don't want it... Just move it to where you want it.
;)
I just don't understand sometimes...
But obviously not a BMW owner.
"Sadly, I know 2 people with BMWs who just miss the cut; one has a 2001 3-series, and the other has a 2003 M3."
:)
i feel really terrible for your friends. send them my condolences
i saw the baby, and the baby looked at me
God I loathe rich people marketing campaigns...
My favourite was a billboard campaign for The Economist magazine I saw in Seven Sisters, a dirt-poor part of Hackney, a dirt-poor London borough: "If you read The Economist, get your chauffeur to honk the horn." Needless to say, my salary was sub-iPod at the time...
This is where the serious fun begins.
iPod...nope
BMW...nope
Guess this means nothing to me
If God had had a computer it would have taken him 7 months to create the earth...if he even bothered to do it at all.
two things I can't afford, in one neat package!
I'd be happy with a flipping CD player.
BMW today announced that in keeping with the spirit of their Apple iPod partnership, the "i" in BMW's model names will now be placed before the number.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
if I listened to the droning of the proles. Instead, I'm going out to shoot a peasant or a pheasant. Whichever I find on my estate first.
This won't work in my Z8 roadster? Pish-posh. Guess I'll just have to deal with whatever Jeeves puts on whilst riding in the Maybach.
Hey look at that plain $45,000 x5, not a target.
WAIT JUST A MINUTE! It has a $250 ipod in it! Let's steal this shit guys!
-Reid
... after taking another look at my slightly sagging SCO shares, I realize I'm a little short this month, so I have to CHOOSE between the iPod or a BMW. It's that kind of decision that makes people's heads explode.
Oh, well, after I blow my SCO money I still have my Enron, Worldcom, Martha Stewart Enterprises and Bre-X investments to fall back on. Tonight I'd better check to see how they're doing, maybe I *CAN* afford both after all!
P.S. I saved a BUNDLE by choosing my own investments and not paying an "expert" to do it for me.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
This is a terrible idea! How is Google supposed to know if I'm looking for the "iPod Mini" or the "iPod MINI"?
Also, if they did this right, even if there is a new connector involved it'll just take a cable upgrade from BMW to make it work.
I can see it now:
Brand new IPOD3super+ - $599
New BMW interface Cable - $849
Having more money than you know what to do with - pricele$$
Clearly you didn't read the second part of the article where it mentions the perspex glovebox door conversion which is included with installation.
...to BMW 2002 or greater
"so there's no way of knowing that there's an iPod in the car at all"
But I paid good $$$ for my sleek and sexy ipod so people could see how trendy I am. Ditto for the Beemer. If people can't even see it, what's the point?
Can I get a sleek and sexy sticker to advertise my trendyness?
I think the cable upgrade is only around $150 US.
Anyone seen my jagged little pill?
Damn. This has got to be the most expensive iPod accessory to date. Forget those designer pouches... BMW is the way to go.