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Sony and McDonald’s join in Big Mac Music giveaway

Monday, May 31, 2004 · 4:58 pm · 31 Comments

“Sony Music, the recorded music company, has linked with McDonald’s, the fast food chain, in an effort help to build a following for its new online music site, Connect. Big Mac buyers will receive vouchers for free music downloads

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Gambit

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 6:06 pm · Reply

This deal with Sony & MacDonald’s will never work. The Big Mac has teamed up with the wrong side.
Makka

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 6:13 pm · Reply

McDee’s is giving away iPods & iMacs here in new zealand, still won’t make me eat it though.
Anonymous

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 6:28 pm · Reply

apple needs to team up with BK now
G-Spank

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 6:34 pm · Reply

how ironic is it that it’s a Big Mac Giveaway…
Frank

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 7:14 pm · Reply

No big deal…Pepsi blew the iTunes deal, McDonalds will blow the Sony deal. These joint marketing deals just don’t work. Nobody cares.
CDR

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 7:15 pm · Reply

i’m pretty sure mcdonald’s is regretting its choice…. they inked the deal before sony launched its service…. before it earned the superior suck rating from the press….

poor ronald… shouldve stuck with steve…

thank god bill didn’t get the mickeydee deal.
pkradd

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 7:19 pm · Reply

Songy/McDonalds will work but it’s not going to be a huge success. Apple has learned its lesson with the Pepsi fiasco and Burger King is not the way to go. (Even if they made a deal it would take at least 6 months to get it going.) You don’t respond to a competitor by doing the same thing. You do things differently…..
Mac Convert

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 7:21 pm · Reply

McDonald’s still has the big mac on their menu?
!!!

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 7:31 pm · Reply

Thank goodness Apple didn’t partner with McDonald’s… Every Mac user should see the hilarious movie “Super Size Me”!!!
Less is More

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 7:32 pm · Reply

You give away music for a ubiquitous service; i.e. for the millions of iPods out there; but not for a rare device. For example, how many people would be interested in a free guidance device for a Scud? Sony is screwing Aibo again; they should be giving away the player — anything else doesn’t make sense!
!!!

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 7:32 pm · Reply

Thank goodness Apple didn’t partner with McDonald’s… Every Mac user should see the hilarious movie “Super Size Me”!!!
neomonkey

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 8:11 pm · Reply

Thank goodness Apple didn’t partner with McDonald’s… Every Mac user…oh wait, !!! beat me to it.
Serge

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 9:00 pm · Reply

On the other hand, I saw Macd/sony fliers at my local macdonalds yesterday. I never saw a single ad for the pepsi/itunes promotion in the year it was happening. Is paper that expensive that apple couldn’t put some ads out?

pkradd says apple learned. I don’t know what except to do nothing, maybe. I read this site since about new years day and it si nothing but apple apologies. I wonder if anyone cares. I love my two macs but every week a friend “upgrades” to a pc because they don’t know apple exists. sad
BuriedCaesar

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 9:44 pm · Reply

Never liked Big Macs anyway. Always been a Quarter Pounder fan myself.
Jack A

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 9:47 pm · Reply

“I love my two macs but every week a friend “upgrades” to a pc because they don’t know apple exists. sad”

I was discussing this with my wife yesterday. People decide that they want to get into computers. They don’t know crap about computers so they ask a friend who is into computers. That gives them a 90% chance they are going to end up asking a windoze user (or at best a former Mac User that doesn’t know what macs are like today with OS X) and if Macs are even mentioned, they will be told they are too expensive, there is no software for them etc. I may seem a little evangelical at times but I figure everyone should at least be given the chance to choose a computer that will give them a superior experience.

Since Apple will not pick up the ball and let the windoze users know how great OS X is I guess it is left up to people like us to inform them of “The biggest unkept secret in the computing world: Macs are great”. Apple should run adds debunking the common myths and letting users know a superior experience is available.
YoYo

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 10:25 pm · Reply

A winning combination indeed: McDonald’s the king of the fast food and maker of the best hamburgers, Sony, the inventor of portable music and the best music player MD/ATRAC and the best internet music service. Best of everything, how could this fail ??? ?

I ate at McD once, I didn’t have any food, it was cold and ground was frozen so I couldn’t dig up roots, I went and had BigMac,. While eating it I suddenly realized the mistake I had made, I could have cooked my old shoes instead, I was pissed. Hey, what is their secret of making so tasteless hamburgers?
Sean

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 11:40 pm · Reply

Not even Sony’s Car Stereos play their Atrac3. They are
so f*cked.
Nobody

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 11:59 pm · Reply

They bleach the ground beef to remove the flavor, then they add ground bones for texture and extra fat for your daily alowance of cholestrol.

Well, now that you know the secret, you can make your own Big Mac.
hubert

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 - 12:35 am · Reply

this is fantastic news! i love mcdonalds i try to eat it 5 times a week and now i can buy songs from sony and download them into my ipod! neat!
Jack A

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 - 2:29 am · Reply

Does anybody know if there is the burn rip conversion to MP3 available for the Sony System?