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How Steve Jobs Got Green Overnight

Francois writes "At Apple's last special event, Steve Jobs insisted on how environment friendly Apple's new iPod packagings are supposed to be. I don't think he's ever gone that route before. 'We've got some new packagings for the new Nano as well. And it's 52% less volume. This turns out to be an environmentally great thing. Because it dramatically reduces the amount of fossil fuels we have to spend to move these things around the planet.' Not only is it obvious they shrank the packaging to reduce the cost of shipping around the planet and sell lower than the Zune, but furthermore: there's a reason why he insisted that much, and it's not so very nice."

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  1. Slashdotted in record time by UFgatorSean · · Score: 4, Funny

    First post and already the site is dead. They must be hosting this from an ipod... or an xserve... Sigh...

  2. Real greens would dump the consumerist iPod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I play my mp3s on a totally organic player made from twigs and mulched hippies.

    1. Re:Real greens would dump the consumerist iPod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, no, *hippies*.

      We all win!

  3. Aha... by Garse+Janacek · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Post vague, ominous anti-Apple FUD.
    2. As evidence, cite a link that is already down -- people will assume it's slashdotted.
    3. People don't know what you're claiming, but a negative cloud surrounds their image of Apple.
    4. Next time, they'll buy a Zune! Yeah! (aka: profit)

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  4. Smug Alert! by insomniac8400 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple users should all move to san francisco where they can enjoy smelling their own farts.

  5. Trans Fat in Apple Newtons by joe_n_bloe · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, wait, that's a different Apple.

  6. Re:Apple should migrate to a new system by Mattintosh · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll eat any apple turnovers you might have laying around. Dell turnovers don't sound so tasty, though, so I'll have to pass on that one.

  7. Re:Bogus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just a wild guess here: do you deny women your essence?

  8. Re:Bogus by 2sheds · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or even his Precious Bodily Fluids...

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