re: ipod nation

In response to Nickiw Whites Blogger on iPods

I for one am the victim of the iPod craze. I feel as though I embody everything that the marketers at Apple look for in a potential customer- stupid, naïve and willing to throw down 300 hundred bones at a drop of a dime simply because the new nano is “cool” and so small and “cute.” I am just that-- Yes I did purchase a nano and no, not because I needed one (I already had a perfectly working one), but solely because I thought it was the most adorable thing I had ever seen and I wanted it. The fact that I had to flesh out 300 hundred dollars (the 250 it cost for the nano plus the costs of the accessories that of course I had to buy) seemed not to phase me in the least (partly because I bursered it..) for the cool new toy I was getting in exchange. So what am I saying exactly? Well, I’m not a hundred perfect sure, but I think that I am disagreeing with Nicki on the fact that Apple should stop doing what they’re doing because what they’re doing is working beautifully and because of their brilliantly clever marketing tactics, causing them to roll in buckets of dough.