Too Many iPod Ads-as-Posts

December 13, 2004 11:05 AM

I don't care about your damn iPod products. We've had like a billion iPod-related avertisments as posts on this site in like the last few months? Can we stop advertising for the iPod? How about it?
posted by xmutex to Etiquette/Policy at 11:05 AM (35 comments total)

But don't you understand that the iPod *is* the cultural revolution we've been waiting for? It's individuality, entertainment, coolness, and high technology all in a teensy little can that only costs a week's wages! How can we possibly stem the tide of information about how to further enjoy this soul-staisfying consumer product, which brings happiness, good luck, and long life to all who buy it?

Why do you hate the revolution, xmutex?
posted by scarabic at 11:10 AM on December 13, 2004

iPod My Photo sells iPods? I didn't see that link on their page. Could you direct me to it?
posted by eyeballkid at 11:11 AM on December 13, 2004

*fondles own iPod, starts salivating*
posted by matteo at 11:13 AM on December 13, 2004

"Upon payment, our artists will 'iPodify' your image to your specifications and send the final work of art to the email address you provided within 5 days.

To ensure the highest quality, images are created for you by professional artists, not by automated software or robots.

Get iPodified today - only $19.95 for your own professionally-made custom digital photo. "

Seriously, you've got to be kidding me. This is a bunch of humans who will do this BY HAND and then email it back to you? How retarded is that? For twenty bucks? Someone's little brother is making a fortune with his pirate copy of photoshop.

If this were a web tool or something that did this automagically, for free, that might be kinda interesting. What we have here is some money-grubbing smartasses with passable photoshop skills who want to cash in on the iPod mania. Yes, linking to them is a pathetic shill.
posted by scarabic at 11:15 AM on December 13, 2004

(The site is crap, btw, I'm just suggesting in an overly snarky manner that it has nothing to do with the fact that it's iPod related.)
posted by eyeballkid at 11:21 AM on December 13, 2004

I have noticed the tendency of iPod owners (myself included) to gush about how great iPods are and how everyone should go out and buy one immediately. I've sold at least two people on them that I know of. Make a product good enough and useful enough, and your customers will go out of their way to push your products for you.

That said, ad posts suck. Especially one-line ad posts with no context and relatively little content.

(Sometimes I catch myself looking at other people's headphones on the bus to see if they're the Apple kind. Do I need help?)
posted by ruddhist at 11:22 AM on December 13, 2004

Develop a rabid and sheepish fanbase enough, and avoid having to include the more impressive features of your competitors. Or for that matter, lower your outlandish asking price.
posted by drpynchon at 11:32 AM on December 13, 2004

Looks like you took it to the grey before I even mentioned it. Good work.

Since you think i'm shilling for ipod, I guess nothing I'll say could convince you otherwise so I won't even bother. I will say however, that I'm pretty sure some people find it interesting and might even like it. You seem to have a vendetta with Apple or something.

I suppose since it is a pay service that the fpp is advertising, so it is a candidate for deletion.
posted by puke & cry at 11:34 AM on December 13, 2004

I am a PowerBook user. I own an iPod. I don't want to see iPod advertisments or iPod-related advertisments on MetaFilter. I think all these three statements are consistent.

I also enjoy naps. And the color blue.
posted by xmutex at 11:38 AM on December 13, 2004

The revolution will not be available for purchase on iTMS.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 11:42 AM on December 13, 2004

I am very suspicious of the growing trend towards product placement here, and can support smackdowns for all who toe that line. I don't give a damn how cool it is, if it ain't a titanium spork it is not the best of the web.
posted by norm at 11:50 AM on December 13, 2004

Wake me up when I can make my photo look like a post on kottke.org.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 11:53 AM on December 13, 2004

I'm a Mac guy, I use my iPod nearly every waking minute of every day and I think these iPod Pepsi Blue ads posts are annoying as hell.

And yes, this coming from a guy who just posted an old Snopes debunked story about a guy who made his wife into a coffee table.
posted by fenriq at 12:12 PM on December 13, 2004

did not see this post as an ad for ipod; it was just like here's what these shmucks are doing. And chargin 20 bucks for...
posted by brucec at 12:17 PM on December 13, 2004

if it ain't a titanium spork it is not the best of the web.

As the owner of a titanium spork I fully endorse this sentiment.
posted by coelecanth at 1:10 PM on December 13, 2004

Titanium spork? Hot damn!
posted by jefbla at 2:16 PM on December 13, 2004

puke & cry - I don't think this is the worst example of an iPod-shilling post ever. But really, think about how lame it is to charge people to photoshop their pictures and make them look like an ad campaign. This operation is very likely in copyright violation and their offering is nothing special in terms of technology. Basically, it's a scam. Someone already posted a tutorial on how to do it yourself in Photoshop. It is someone's business venture, and you are no doubt helping them by sending them new visitors, even though their service is lame and possibly illegal.

Now think about this: do you really want to give these jokers traffic? Is that what you think MetaFilter is for? Can you really not do better than this?

I'm pretty sure some people find it interesting and might even like it.

[shakes head]
posted by scarabic at 2:29 PM on December 13, 2004

But don't you understand that the iPod *is* the cultural revolution we've been waiting for?

Hahahaha. Thanks for summing up my feelings on the matter, scarabic. I may have been a potential Mac switcher, but the iPod/iTunes thing is really killing my opinion of Apple.

I'll have my electronics without the image, thank you.
posted by rafter at 2:38 PM on December 13, 2004

By the way (and this is directed at no one in particular): it's an mp3 player. For chrissakes.
posted by rafter at 2:39 PM on December 13, 2004

Tell me about it. I bought an Archos with 2x the features at 1/2 the price 2 years ago.
posted by scarabic at 2:43 PM on December 13, 2004

I have an ipod...I'm not so ga-ga over it. But I do think it looks teh sexy
posted by Hands of Manos at 3:36 PM on December 13, 2004

I am listening to Modest Mouse on my iPod in my new Old Navy Sweater while drinking a hot mug of Swiss Miss and I am Happy®.
posted by xmutex at 3:38 PM on December 13, 2004

I like the earlier version that was disposable, because recycling is good for the planet.
Now I too want a cup of Swiss Miss. Actually, I just want a Swiss Miss. Hmmm.
posted by buzzman at 4:33 PM on December 13, 2004

Please, whatever you do in life, when it is all over and you're on your deathbed, don't be one of the fools who says, "Damn, I wish I had bought an iPod." You owe it to yourself and your family to go buy that iPod now. Go on.

Just stay away from the U2 model.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 4:49 PM on December 13, 2004

Yeah, stick with the "me too!" white.
posted by scarabic at 6:18 PM on December 13, 2004

welp, looks like matt left the post up. So as a result, you can go fuck yourself, asshole.
posted by puke & cry at 10:31 PM on December 13, 2004

So as a result, you can go fuck yourself, asshole.

That's a bit much, there, lad.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:44 PM on December 13, 2004

welp, looks like matt left the post up. So as a result, you can go fuck yourself, asshole.

Wow. I can't tell if that was denying the antecedent, appeal to authority, or an ad hominem attack. Maybe all three plus poor usage of a comma? Sheesh.

Did anyone else hear the tears being choked out on that?
posted by scarabic at 11:39 PM on December 13, 2004

Hey puke and cry, don't take this so personally. You're not the first mefite to get caught up in the whole iPod, um, thing. Which is exactly the reason why many mefites are sick of iPods, sexy or not.

Anyway, it's just one bad post, we expect great things from you in the future.

Really.
posted by sic at 5:56 AM on December 14, 2004

looks like matt left the post up. So as a result, you can go fuck yourself, asshole.


that's a particularly endearing response. I bet you made a few new friends here (yesterday).
posted by norm at 7:30 AM on December 14, 2004

Wake me up when I can make my photo look like a post on kottke.org.

stupidsexyFlanders wins!
posted by mokujin at 8:49 AM on December 14, 2004

You owe it to yourself and your family to go buy that iPod now. Go on.

Not until they throw in an 8-track adapter. There's Jethro Tull that needs listenin' to.
posted by jonmc at 9:19 AM on December 14, 2004

And that's where all this iPod cockassery burns me. My MP3 player *has* an 8-track adapter. It's called "line-in recording," and Apple is never going to give it to you.
posted by scarabic at 10:03 AM on December 14, 2004

Y'know on some levels an iPod actually sounds like it would be neat to have. But it's waaaay too expensive and every portable music device I've ever owned has broken or been lost with 6 weeks or so, and I'm not ready to take that risk with something cosying $400.
posted by jonmc at 10:11 AM on December 14, 2004

Not until they throw in an 8-track adapter. There's Jethro Tull that needs listenin' to.

I listen to my single-track MP3 of Aqualung very often, lately. It's such a great record. I've also been listening to Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic occasionally, and, alas, it doesn't sound nearly as good as it did on the 8-track in mom's station wagon.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:26 AM on December 14, 2004