If Microsoft Made the iPod

James
March 3rd, 2006 6:14 pm

Love that video.

Alan
March 4th, 2006 10:55 am

Funny!

March 4th, 2006 1:16 pm

Excellent and very entertaining!

ChooseChris
March 5th, 2006 8:10 am

Brilliant! As a Digital Designer I’m frequently asked to add crap to an already successful design and increase the complexity for the sake of marketing, which often convolutes or dilutes the original message to the point of absurdity. This video is a good example of how to over-design and defeat your own purpose of communication. Sometimes, images and mood can sell much better than ten paragraphs of descriptive marketing text, starburst graphics, and bullet points. If only we could get the rest of the world to understand.

March 14th, 2006 10:11 pm

Very true. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Simple is sexy.

March 31st, 2006 8:30 pm

hahahahahahah duuude that was soo great! sad.. but extremely true. apple knows how to sell products…. too bad they’re so expensive…

michael laity
April 1st, 2006 10:54 pm

Hi can you send me the name of the music in this video. I want to use it in a school project. Thank You. Can you send it to Kartboy1234@msn.com

PAtricio
April 1st, 2006 11:09 pm

wujajaja ta muy chistoso!!! es la pura verdad..!
salu2!

Dale (Padiaow)
April 2nd, 2006 10:46 am

Its funny because its true!

kelly
April 4th, 2006 12:05 pm

I’d love to see a version on how they screw up the actual product, not just the packaging… it’d probably end up being roughly the size of a greyhound bus and only have about 5Mb left for actual music after its os (and marketing-”suggested” add-ons) was installed on its 60GB drive… M$: the bloatware kings!

April 5th, 2006 8:12 pm

Heh. That has nailed MS’ look right on the head…

Ted
April 7th, 2006 2:30 am

So what if a products box has too much, they are just trying to cover there ass incase some nub whose bought xp or something like that doesnt try and sue them cause they got the wrong product. I have issues with windows but as long as you actually use it correctly and arent a noob your fine. I think its just the fact that bill gates makes a fuck load more money that you which instantlly makes anything he does a pile of shit. Last time i used linux I couldnt get my fucking wireless working, do you realize how much fucking bullshit i went through for it to not work after like 10 hours, then i installed windows and bam, it auto detected. Fuck linux, fuck mac(cause mac is for fucking pussies and the only reason they dont get virus’s is because a fuck load less people use them), fuck microsoft, i bet half you people are using windows right now, yet you bitch about it, go fucking make your own OS if you think windows is so shit house

Chris
April 11th, 2006 7:14 am

Ted, true that!!! Stop bitchin and just d/l windows for free and mod it to wat ever u want, geez ur all n00bs.

Peace out

Nobody
April 11th, 2006 9:03 am

If MS used a minimal style in its packages then people would say it copies Apple…

Ted can go to hell
April 11th, 2006 10:34 am

To the last poster:
1. I have issues with Linux but as long as you actually use it correctly and aren’t a noob you’re fine.

2. It sounds like you have crappy wireless hardware. The main reason It didn’t work is probably because it is a half-assed wireless card made by a lazy -assed company who doens’t feel like making drivers or opening up their spces. There is a good chance that you could get any wireless card working in linux with a little patience, some googling and by reading some forums. You cannot blame the OS for the lack of drivers provided by third parties–It’s like the mac thing…they don’t get viruses because nobody uses them. Linux developers often have to make their own drivers because the hardware companies don’t feel like supporting them.

3. Most ppl make a fuck load more money than I do but that doesn’t nessicarily mean I hate them.

4. Yes, I am using windows right now, mainly because I work in an IT department that is a pure microsoft shop due to M$’s strict, anti-competative business practices.

Lee
April 17th, 2006 6:51 am

Why are you shouting at people on the internet? o_O

Funny clip =)

FESTER
April 18th, 2006 10:50 am

GO FOR IT BILL WHATEVER SOFTWARE U PUT ON IT ILL TORRENT IT NOT PAY A PENNY FOR IT NOT HAVE TO REGISTER IT AND CAN UPGRADE ALL THE PARTS WITHOUT HAVING TO BUY SPECICIC PARTS FROM THE MANUFACTURER ..ON MY THIRD FAULTY IPOD NOW (NANO) AND STILL IT AMAZES ME HOW A LEADER
IN A MULTI BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY CANNOT DESIGN A SIMPLE MP3 PLAYER
WITHOUT MULTIPLE TECHNICAL PROBLEMS AND THOUSANDS OF UNHAPPY CUSTOMERS and endless lawsuits

OK FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH THERES GREAT BUT ISNT THIS THE WHOLE
IDEA FOR BUYING THERE PRODUCTS BECAUSE THERE A REPUTABLE BRAND..THE IRONIC THING
ABOUT IT IS THAT U COULD BUY A UNKNOWN BRANDED ONE IN THE MARKET AND IT WOULD
PROBABLY LAST YOU LONGER FOR A FRACTION OF THE PRICE.

ANYONE ELSE HAD THE FAULTY IPOD EXPERIENCE ???

MICROSOFT UNIVERSAL IN EVERY WAY
IF ITS BROKE BUY A MAC IF U DARE

derek
June 9th, 2006 1:00 am

mac owns and you all know it…

Alex
June 26th, 2006 12:29 am

To Fester:

I dont know of a single person that has had iPod problems. Wait, my one friend who’s ipod video had a sticky button, but that was it. He had the warrenty, he got a new one. WOAH! So fuck off, Fester. Oh and by the way, you’re using an iPod. Not a Mac.

To Windows/Linux users:

I dont care if you use Windows, or Linux, or a Mac, it doesn’t matter. The only reason Bill Gates got a shit load of money is because he was the first person to ever do something big with the PC. He manipulated the market and made it so people could ONLY buy from him. I applaud his genius. Now Macintosh came into the game after Windows. People use Windows more dominately than Macintosh. Why??? Windows was better than Mac from when Windows came out, to about 2001. Then Mac actually got into the game, got better systems, got associated with Intel, made Windows usable on a Mac, seriously Mac is better than Windows now. That’s all there is to it. And to the excuse of “Nobody gives a shit about Mac to make a virus for it”, bullshit. The first virus for Mac was made this year. As I said, Mac just got really into the game, and Mac is just now starting to whoop some ass. I’ve had a Mac for about a year now. The only time Ive had to use FORCE QUIT was using MICROSOFT Office. The only times I have had to shut my computer down was to save money on the energy bill. I’ve gone through 3 PC’s. All of them suffered terrible deaths and I just got tired of having to re-install Windows (I did it 9 times). I switched to Mac… Zero problems. Seriously, guys, that’s all there is to it. I use a Mac Mini, and my fucking monitor takes up more space than the computer does. My keyboard takes up more space than the computer does. But it runs like a champ and I woulnd’t have anything less. So all you stuck up Windows-running Pricks need to shut the fuck up and get your facts straight.

By the way, the video was fucking hilarious. Hit the nail right on the head. Why does Microsoft have to make everything so complicated?

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