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This from the morons who thought "cut and paste" wasn’t anything people wanted on an iPhone.
Tee-hee! This is where marketers are really starting to piss me off.
"Let’s try to convince EVERYONE that they need to buy our stuff–even people who would NEVER buy it!! Who cares if we waste a bucket-load of money and alienate customers who actually WOULD buy our stuff!! WE MUST BRAINWASH MORE PEOPLE TO BUY OUR CRAP!"
It must be tough believing your own line of bullcrap.
Well, my mom doesn’t own an iPod now and she seems pretty confident that she doesn’t want an iPod ever. She wants a Kindle long before she’ll go for an iPod, so, all Apple has managed to do with their recent email to me is piss me off and make me hate them more.
IT’S A RECESSION DICKWEEDS, MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY TELLING US HOW YOUR STUFF IS CHEAP.
Hell, it’s really a depression, in which case, it’s downright immoral to be trying to convince people to buy an iPod for Mom rather than, you know FEED themselves.
But hey "they’ve got to make a living, right?"
Sure! And that’s much more important than me EATING.
Sorry, Mom! No iPod for you this Mother’s Day. I hope you’ll forgive me!
Yes, I am a Mac person, but I prefer to stay loyal to my soul rather than some stupid company, thanks.
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I saw the e-mail from Apple and immediately ignored it. The last thing I want to think of is spending money unnecessarily, especially after paying my iPhone bill and some.
I would love to see Apple create more sustainable technolgy – recyclable (great), but not something I have to replace so quickly. They’ve mastered planned obsolescence so well, but it doesn’t go over well when people can’t afford the product.
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Yeah, it *would* be nice if Apple could take the same skill they put toward making us all buy new stuff every so often and apply it to the art of helping us buy less crap. But then, they wouldn’t make as much money and we can’t have that! :\
You got that right! No IPod, IPhone, etc. for me. I don’t even want my cell phone to take pictures or be able to send texts. It’s supposed to be a phone. Now a Kindle – totally different story! But honestly how many people actually pay attention to those kinds of ads? I ususally tune out if they are on television and certainly don’t bother to read them if they come as email.
Well, if I am not broke (which does happen from time to time) and am in the market for a new gadgety type thing, I do read email from vendors. And I don’t watch broadcast TV anymore, so the commercials don’t bother me because I never see them.
Oh and ironically, the Kindle 2 connects to 3G cell networks so you *can* text-message and do light web surfing on it. :) I post to Twitter and text TheWife on it sometimes.
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