Has the iPod backlash begun? Consider this email from a Curbed reader in Tribeca:
What’s up with all those “iPods Lick Balls” stickers (Black Square with White Arial Font) that I’m seeing in Tribeca? I ripped one down and the next week there was another one up. Is this marketing genius from Sony or Rio?
Curbed has posted a photo of one of the stickers plastered on a light pole here.
MacDailyNews Take: Perhaps Apple is using guerilla marketing for the stealth introduction of a new iPod feature?
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Hmmm, can’t wait to see what _that_ new feature would be like…. The imagination reels!
Apple once again gives the consumers what they want…
Warning: do not select the new “lick balls” feature while charging.
Gee… what button combination do you have to press for that feature?
The full thing says that the stickers were realy easy to peal off.
Makes you wonder….
I’m waiting to buy my next ipod becasue I heard the G6 will have Suck Balls & Lick Anus features.
It’s not an Apple feature, it’s a new Griffin add-on, the iLick. It will come in two versions, a white one and a black one (for the U2 iPod) but the artificial tongues will be pink on both.
another campaign headed up by the ballmer/thurott/enderle group, i suppose..
you know, this could just be something to get people to look for the word “ipod” on the internet, I mean, if you saw stickers everywhere that said “Nowers suck! Don’t buy any! They just want you to think that they are cool!”, you would do a google search for nowers (a made up word, i think) as soon as you got home.
I think I liked the hooded figure with the arms and wires standing on a box better.
maybe these stickers are from those lost souls who think that the Dell DJ is the better. or one of the other players, or this group is upset that Apple is achieving over MS.
The consensus at Engadget is that the image is Photoshopped:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/9276274415216939/
New campaign slogan, “Licks Anywhere”?
I think it should say “iPods lick Ballmer” as in they’ve got MS’s Steve Ballmer beat.
Looks like Bill Gates, Ballmer, Thurrott et al have been busy at the weekends printing off these stickers on their A4 inkjet printers!
Ive always wondered what the CEO of Microsoft does at weekends – now we know!
He gets his ipod to lick his balls!
(amazing it can find them really – because everyone knows he aint got any!)
LLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!
The latest joke, coming out of Redmond.. can be found.. Over Here…
A word of caution…. dont be drinking something over your keyboard as you read this …
Actually, the next generation iPods will lick balls. Priced at $499, the special ball licking iPods will not only be a fashion statement, but will also help thousands off lonely single guys around the world!
In other news, my Hotmail account has been upgraded to 250MB.
10,000 licks in your pocket!
Maybe is a Rolling Stones iPod, Thousand Licks edition
Slow news day, MDN?
MDN does innuendo — LOL!
“I think I liked the hooded figure with the arms and wires standing on a box better.”
hmmm. then why are you not in iraq fighting for Haliburton profits and killing babies?
coward.
Should be “iPods suck the Life out of your pocket book”
“It’s not an Apple feature, it’s a new Griffin add-on, the iLick. It will come in two versions, a white one and a black one (for the U2 iPod) but the artificial tongues will be pink on both.”
I think I saw the prototype to this on So Graham Norton. He gave a battery operated one to Joan Collins.
You guys are so rude. No wonder I like it here.